Location &
Amenities
At 104,844 square feet, this Class A office building also serves as a plug-and-play call center.
Overview
With its 600 parking spaces situated on 6.22 acres in the heart of Monroe’s business district, the seven story Tower Place has served as a call center for more than 20 years. The granite and glass building is an iconic structure, built in 1985 with the principle of passive survivability: redundant mechanical systems including back-up power and state-of-art telecommunications infrastructure with its own back-up power source. The fully furnished facility offers 755 pre-wired cubicles, 12 conference rooms, 7 local LAN rooms, a central data management/server room, multiple training rooms, telephone rooms, and an 18-wheeler loading dock. Tower Place is accessible to I-20 and the Monroe Regional Airport.
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- 755 pre-wired cubicles
- 12 furnished conference rooms
- At least two furnished training rooms with AV capabilities
- Cafeteria with a fully equipped kitchen
- Break or coffee room on each floor
- Handicap accessible bathrooms on each floor
- Newly remodeled elevators: two main elevators; one service elevator
- Fire protection room
- Loading Dock: One elevated 18-wheeler loading dock
Technology
- Telecommunications:
- Each floor is completely networked with overhead CAT 6 copper cabling. Cable troughs are also available.
- All cubicles are terminated and labeled to an existing switch rack in the LAN room on each floor
- 7 LAN and 7 telephone rooms - one on each floor sharing a self-contained 1.5 ton Stulz A/C unit
- All LAN rooms are on UPS dedicated circuits with Generator back-up.
- Wired with high speed fiber optic cables
- Data Management Room on the 5th floor has an extensive IT workshop area with raised flooring for cabling and maintenance:
- Two 15 ton Stulz
- One 15 ton Liebert A/C units
- One 75 Kva UPS system with a backup generator
- Multiple switch and patch panel racks already installed
- Supplier: AT&T or CenturyLink
- Fiber Optics Supplier: AT&T or CenturyLink
Building
- Size: 104,844 Total ft2
- Parking Spaces: 621 surface level, paved parking spaces
- Date of Construction: 1985
- Floor Sizes:
- Floor 1- 16,022 ft2
- Floor 2- 16,757 ft2
- Floor 3- 17,294 ft2
- Floor 4- 17,283 ft2
- Floor 5- 13,563 ft2
- Floor 6- 13,566 ft2
- Floor 7- 10,409 ft2
Construction
- Type of Construction: irregularly shaped rectangle with varying floor sizes, reducing in size as it ascends; constructed of steel and masonry
- Exterior Walls: granite and glass facade
- Roof: membrane ballasted with stones
- Interior Walls: drywall
- Flooring: carpet and tile
- Ceiling: acoustical tile ceiling
- Architectural style: central atrium
Utilities
- Lighting: florescent and LED lighting
- Metal halide fixtures in paved parking lot
- Water/Sewer Supplier: City of Monroe
- Electricity: obtained though low voltage power lines;
- Metered through master meter
- Emergency Power: 75KVA UPS with 300KVA backup generator for redundancy
- Supplier: Entergy
- Heat: electric VAV controlled, perimeter heating
- Heating System: electric duct heaters and VAV controlled boxes
- Cooling System: central AHU per floor supplied by 2 -320 ton centrifugal chillers
- Cooling Equipment: ground mounted 375 ton cooling tower
- Plumbing: combination of PVC, steel, copper, and cast iron piping throughout the building
- Low water volume restrooms
Safety & Security
- Sprinkler: 100% sprinklered, newly installed fire panels, fire protection room
- Security: card readers and magnetic lock capabilities on each floor for compartmentalized security
- Security cameras on every floor
- Two security gates
Amenities
Centrally located in the thriving Tower District, Tower Place Plug-and-Play Call Center is minutes away from I20 and the Monroe Regional Airport. The location of choice for companies like CenturyLink and IBM, Monroe offers a perfect blend of work and pleasure; ensuring the health of your business and your workforce.
Local amenities include:
- St Francis Community Health Center
- Veteran's Affairs Outpatient Clinic
- Monroe Surgical Hospital
- ULM College of Pharmacy
- Chase Bank
- Progressive Bank
- Iberia Bank
- Wal-Mart
- Walgreens
- Office Depot
- Books-A-Million
- Tower Storage
- Newk’s Express Café
- Portico Bar and Grill
- Pie Works
- Orange Leaf Yogurt
- Fitness Together
- Blue Sky Yoga
- Sun Tan City
- Beauty Nails
- Spoiled Rotten
- River Outfitters
- Bayou Gypsy Boutique