Midwest Plaza is a 320 feet (98 m) tall skyscraper in Minneapolis

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minneapolis , nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City," is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States...

, Minnesota

Minnesota

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. It was completed in 1969, and has 20 floors. It is the 30th-tallest building in the city and is located on Nicollet Mall

Nicollet Mall

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. At the time of its completion, the building stood as the fifth-tallest structure in Minneapolis, and the city's second-tallest post-World War II

Post-war

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 high-rise, behind One Financial Plaza

One Financial Plaza (Minneapolis)

One Financial Plaza is a 383-ft tall skyscraper in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was completed in 1960 and has 28 floors. It is the 21st-tallest building in the city. It is the first major post-World War II skyscraper built in Minneapolis. It is also the tallest building completed in the 1960s....

. A skyway connects the building to The Metro Apartments, the Medical Arts Building, and the IDS Center

IDS Center

The IDS Center is the tallest building in the state of Minnesota at 792 feet . Opened in 1974 as the IDS Centre, it stood 775 feet 6 inches , though a 16-foot garage for window washing equipment was added at a later date...

.

Midwest Federal Savings & Loan

Midwest Federal Savings & Loan

Midwest Federal Savings and Loan was an American bank headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Starting in the mid-1960s, its headquarters were located at 801 Nicollet Mall in what is now called the Midwest Plaza. Midwest Federal was in business for ninety-nine years until its failure in 1989. Its...

 was the building's primary tenant for several decades until its failure during the S&L crisis

Savings and Loan crisis

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, and so the building is sometimes called Midwest Federal. The building was bought by United Properties, a commercial real estate company, in December 1994. The structure has a floor area of 416000 square feet (38,647.7 m²)
and a 870-space parking ramp. Major tenants of the building include American Greetings

American Greetings

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, Clorox

Clorox

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, Colgate-Palmolive

Colgate-Palmolive

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, Dial Corporation, the ELCA Board of Pensions, Pfizer

Pfizer

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 and Revlon

Revlon

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. In February 2008, the building was put up for sale by United Properties. It has an assessed value of $46.5 million.

Midwest Plaza served as the home of the fictional WJM-TV station of The Mary Tyler Moore Show

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

The Mary Tyler Moore Show is an American television sitcom created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns that aired on CBS from 1970 to 1977...

, an American sitcom that aired on CBS

CBS

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 from 1970 to 1977. The famous opening title sequence

The Mary Tyler Moore Show opening sequence

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was filmed nearby on Nicollet Mall.