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Revenue Building, Salem, OR
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- Address: 955 Center St, NE Salem, OR 97301
- Square footage: The building is approximately 250,000 square feet, which includes five stories and a full basement.
- Tenant(s): The Department of Revenue and the Department of Administrative Services, Enterprise Information Strategy and Policy Division.
- History: The building was designed by BOORA Architects from Portland. It was constructed in two phases. The first phase included the underground parking, the front plaza, and the main building, and was complete in 1981. The second phase included the “tower,” which is the smaller section of the building in the NE corner of the block, and was complete in 1984. The building originally housed most of the state’s major computer centers, but those have now been moved to the State Data Center on Airport Road. Before the building was constructed, the property housed a retail complex and houses that were torn down or moved. The linked picture is from the 1970s – you can see the block where Revenue now stands, just across Center Street from Transportation, is a series of smaller buildings, as is the lot where the Barbara Roberts Human Services Building now stands (more on the history on that building in a future edition). State Capitol and Capitol Mall areial photo.
Sources: State Architect, http://www.salemhistory.net/places/post_office.htm
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