Type Commercial Top floor 99 m (325 ft) Floors 24 Opened 2014 Construction started 2010 | Completed 2014 Floor count 21 Height 99 m, 147 m to tip Floor area 2 ha | |
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Location Upper HillNairobiKenya Similar UAP Old Mutual Tower, I&M Bank Tower, Rahimtulla Tower, Britam Tower, Times Tower | ||
Kenya Commercial Bank Plaza (KCB Plaza) is a building in Nairobi, Kenya's capital and largest city.
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Map of Kenya Commercial Bank Plaza, Nairobi, Kenya
Location
The skyscraper is located in Upper Hill, approximately 5 kilometres (3.1 mi), by road, west of the central business district of Nairobi. The coordinates of the building are: 1° 18' 0.00"S, 36° 48' 48.00"E (Latitude:-1.300000; Longitude:36.813333).
Overview
KCB Plaza has twenty-one storeys consisting of approximately 171,800 square feet (15,960 m2) of rentable office space and enough parking for about four hundred fifty automobiles. Construction began in December 2010 and was expected to last two years. Occupancy of the completed building commenced in January 2013. The building has Kenya Commercial Bank as its main tenant, which relocated its headquarters from Kencom House in the central business district, to KCB Plaza in Upper Hill.
Construction costs
The building is owned by the Kenya Commercial Bank Employee Pension Fund, who are footing the US$26 million (KES:2.1 billion) construction bill. In April 2012, Kenyan press reports indicated that the rentable space inside the building had been increased to 228,330 square feet (21,213 m2). The main contractor is China Wu Yi Company Limited. KCB Plaza was expected to be one of the tallest skyscrapers in Nairobi at the time of its completion.