Titled “Behind the Scenes of Bank of America Tower at Parkside—a Deal that Almost Didn’t Happen,” an article in the Dallas-area business publication discussed the project’s unconventional path to realization with KPF Principals Forth Bagley and Robert Whitlock.
The KPF-designed Bank of America Tower at Parkside is now rising in Uptown Dallas after years of uncertainty and perseverance from its development and design teams. Upon completion, the 30-story, 500,000-square-foot office tower will be the tallest in Uptown and feature a 12th-floor sky lobby, 8,000 square feet of retail, and a host of modern amenities.
The project’s journey began in 2019, when the Miyama family and developer KDC engaged KPF for initial master planning work. The onset of the pandemic stalled progress, but committed professional relationships and persistence brought the project back to life. Bank of America’s commitment as anchor tenant was the catalyst that made the tower viable.
The tower’s design, led by KPF with Corgan as architect of record, emphasizes spatial connections to Klyde Warren Park and the surrounding urban fabric. The building will feature a green wall on garage levels, landscaped terraces, and a “glass box” lobby to absorb activity from the park and Harwood Street. As KPF Principal Robert Whitlock explains, “it’s a very beautiful composition on that corner that allows for terraces, a variety of tenant floor sizes, but it was about providing that green experience on the office floor itself, rather than only having it being visible through the windows.”
For KPF, the tower is a symbol of Dallas’ urban evolution: “This commitment to building Uptown and reinvigorating downtown Dallas and investing in the city’s urban core is working,” says KPF Principal Forth Bagley. “It’s appealing to national tenants, and it’s creating good urban environments that people want to invest in and live around. It also has trickle down effects with new hotels coming online, and so you’re seeing this sort of virtuous cycle of creating good urban density.”
Read the full article in D CEO here.
