250 Douglas Place is a high-rise apartment building in Wichita , Kansas . It is located in the Garvey Center development. It is the second-tallest building in both Wichita and the state of Kansas. In 2021, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
6-613: The Holiday Inn Plaza hotel opened in July 1970, as part of the Garvey Center, which also contained two 10-story office towers. The hotel was the tallest building in Wichita until the Epic Center was built in 1987. Even today, it remains the building with the most floors in the state. On August 11, 1976, Michael Soles, an unemployed welder from Sand Springs, Oklahoma , set up a sniper position on
12-524: The Epic Center began in October 1985. It officially opened for business in 1987. Created as a lure for businesses to the downtown area, the Epic Center helped create a "big city" feel for Wichita at a time when the economy was fluctuating. The building has 22 stories above ground level. Originally, the plans called for two twin towers to be built, but those plans were scrapped in favor of a single tower due to
18-505: The Epic Center changed hands again, being purchased for $ 11.5 million by real estate investor Phil Ruffin. Today the building's tenants include law firms, banking and loan corporations, a field office of the Secret Service and Federal Bureau of Investigation , and many other businesses. The Epic Center has 298,000 square feet (27,700 m ) of office space. Fleeson Gooing Law Firm LLC, accounting firm Allen, Gibbs & Houlik LC and
24-414: The fear that the occupancy level would never reach near capacity. At the time, this led to a local joke referring to the development as "Epic Off-Center", but that epithet is now largely forgotten. In 2007, in a $ 1.4 billion transaction the Epic Center, One and Two Brittany Place and 31 other buildings, were acquired by real estate investment firm Behringer Harvard, when it acquired IPC US REIT. In 2015,
30-570: The hotel. Over the course of an eleven-minute shooting spree, he killed three and wounded six others. The gunman was eventually wounded by the police and taken into custody. The hotel made an appearance in the 1976 film King Kung Fu (a low-budget knock-off of King Kong ). The hotel left Holiday Inn in 1987 and became the Century II Plaza Hotel . Beginning in 1997, it was gradually converted to an apartment building, with each apartment made by combining two old hotel rooms. The conversion
36-516: Was fully completed in 2015 and the tower was renamed 250 Douglas Place. This article about a building or structure in Kansas is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Epic Center The Epic Center is a 385-foot (117 m), 22- story skyscraper in Wichita, Kansas . It is the tallest building in the state of Kansas, holding that title since its completion in 1987. Construction of
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