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Complete

Opening
  
1979

Floor count
  
22

Construction started
  
1973

Opened
  
1979

Type
  
OfficeRetail

Roof
  
333-foot (101 m)

Height
  
102 m

Floors
  
22

Floor area
  
4 ha

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Location
  
Broadway and Mill StreetLexington, Kentucky

Similar
  
Lexington Financial Center, Fayette National Bank Buil, Kentucky State Capitol, Memorial Coliseum, Commonwealth Stadium Kentucky

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The Kincaid Towers is a 22-floor high-rise in Lexington, Kentucky. It is located along Vine Street between Broadway and Mill Street. Its exterior is polished buff concrete with blue tinted glass, with terraces on the 5th, 10th, 14th, and 21st floor. It has a three-story atrium, and a skywalk that connects to the adjacent Hyatt Regency Hotel and Lexington Center. It is named after Garvice Delmar Kincaid.

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History

Construction on the 421,000 square feet (39,100 m2) tower began in 1973 and was completed in 1979 at a cost of $20 million. During construction, major portions of the movie, Steel, was filmed there during the summer of 1978. It was constructed by Huber, Hunt, and Nichols Inc., an Indianapolis, Indiana firm that also constructed the Hyatt Regency Hotel, the Lexington Center, Rupp Arena, and Commonwealth Stadium. For the next eight years, it was the tallest building in central Kentucky, at 333 feet (101.49 m), before being surpassed by new construction. Upon completion, it was home to Kentucky Central Insurance Companies.

It features a $345,000 computer/electro-mechanical energy system that occupies the entire 9th floor. Considered "state-of-the-art", it was derived from space technology.

Original tenants

The original tenants included:

  • Central Bank and Trust Company, occupying the first two levels,
  • Law firm of Kincaid, Wilson, Schaeffer, and Hembree,
  • General Management Associates,
  • WVLK Radio on the third floor,
  • Kentucky Finance Company,
  • Kentucky Central Insurance Company, occupying the top 13 floors, and
  • Morrison's Cafeteria on the second floor.
  • References

    Kincaid Towers Wikipedia


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