1301 Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan was designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon for the developer Uris Buildings Corporation, which bought the site from the Astor trust in January 1964 for 9 million dollars. It was completed in 1964. The text gives no style, construction start or original materials. The building has 45 floors and stands 609 feet (186 m) to the roof.
JCPenney became the first anchor tenant in 1964 and bought the building in 1977 for 55 million dollars. About 5,000 JCPenney employees had moved in by 1978. In 1988 the company announced its move to Dallas.
Tishman Speyer and Trammell Crow bought the empty tower at auction in May 1988 for 353 million dollars. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill then redesigned the lobby and added a plaza with seating and sculpture. The tower later housed Crédit Lyonnais, then Calyon, and is now Crédit Agricole CIB's U.S. headquarters. The article gives no hours.
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