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The Sears Crosstown Building In Memphis is a building that I would love to see someone create and would LOVE to see in SC4. Art Deco style 1.5 million sq. ft. Sears distribution center and store that has been shuttered for 20 years, but being refurbished and repuposed currently. The Sears Crosstown Building is an art deco high-rise building in Memphis, Tennessee. The building was designed by Nimmons & Co., and construction was completed in 1927. It was one of the first Sears stores designed to attract customers by being situated in a relatively open area of the city and providing a large amount of free parking.[1] The Crosstown Building was a premier Sears retail store for more than 60 years.[2] The building became vacant in the early 1990s after Sears closed many of the buildings it had constructed in the 1920s:[3] the store that had occupied the lower floors was closed in 1983, and the catalog distribution center in 1993.[4] Attempts by various organizations have begun to repurpose the high-rise.[5] The Crosstown Arts project is working on resurrecting the building as a "mixed-used vertical urban village." Developers received commitments from nine prospective tenants called "founding partners" to fill more than 600,000 square feet of the building with various uses, most notability health care.[6] The rebirth is based on a series of Sears reconstructions, most notably the Midtown Exchange in Minneapolis, which was a Sears retail store and was then completely repurposed.

Awesome planned city. How can we get the Coca-Cola building? .... Or can we?