Completed in 1967, the building serves as the world headquarters for the Bechtel Corporation with spill-over across the street to 45 Fremont Center. The building has also served as headquarters for Blue Shield of California since 1996. In 2006, Blue Shield renewed its lease and acquired naming rights to the building. Formerly known as the Bechtel Building, the building was renamed the Blue Shield of California Building.
Broadway Partners acquired the building in 2007. A joint venture of The Rockefeller Group and Mitsubishi Estate New York acquired the building in September 2012. The building was sold to Paramount Group, Inc. for approximately US$395 million in September 2014.
Beale Street is a street in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee, which runs from the Mississippi River to East Street, a distance of approximately 1.8 miles (2.9km). It is a significant location in the city's history, as well as in the history of the blues. Today, the blues clubs and restaurants that line Beale Street are major tourist attractions in Memphis. Festivals and outdoor concerts periodically bring large crowds to the street and its surrounding areas.
History
Beale Street was created in 1841 by entrepreneur and developer Robertson Topp (1807–1876), who named it for a forgotten military hero. The original name was Beale Avenue. Its western end primarily housed shops of trade merchants, who traded goods with ships along the Mississippi River, while the eastern part developed as an affluent suburb. In the 1860s, many black traveling musicians began performing on Beale. The first of these to call Beale Street home were the Young Men's Brass Band, who were formed by Sam Thomas in 1867.
I'd rather be here Than any pla-ace I know I'd rather be here Than any place I know-ow It's gonna take the sergeant For to make me go Goin' to the river Maybe by-y and by Goin' to the river And there's a reason why Because the river's wet And Beale Street's done gone dry Goin' to the river Maybe by-y and by Goin' to the river And there's a rea-eason why Because the river's wet And Beale Street's done gone dry Because the river's wet And Beale Street's done gone dry Because the river's wet
Destiny (TV series “Star” and “Grown-ish”) makes Claressa sympathetic and relatable, even as few would know what it’s like to possess her abilities, while Henry (“Atlanta,” Jenkins’ “If Beale Street...
It’s a technical marvel ... Directed by Barry Jenkins, the indie darling behind the triple Oscar-winning masterpiece Moonlight, and the similarly lauded If Beale Street Could Talk, Mufasa ... ....
Part of Walnut Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues has been closed, as well as the surrounding sidewalk, per a request from Beal Derkenne Construction, the company slated to work on the tower.
MEMPHIS, Tenn ... If they play like they did on Thursday, the Warriors’ bottle is shattered ... They watched as the FedEx Forum crowd stood up and danced to “Whoop That Trick” in the fourth quarter before hitting Beale Street early ... Related Articles ... .
The Lion King’ ... The Lion King.” ... "Mufasa" offered a different kind of challenge for Jenkins, mostly because “Moonlight” and "If Beale Street Could Talk" didn’t have any photorealistic, computer-generated lions, zebras and other animals running around.
Early in Mufasa ... Mufasa ... So it was a surprising development when Jenkins, an auteur best known for weighty features such as Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk, was announced as the director of a new prequel focused on protagonist Simba’s father ... .
Born Jan ... Booth recalled “his first experience on Beale Street was being thrown out of a Ray Charles concert at the Hippodrome for sharing a table with some black classmates from newly integrated Memphis State University.” ...
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20 Dec 2024