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{{short description|Mixed-use facility in Fort Worth, Texas}}
{{Other uses|Cityplace (disambiguation)}}
{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}
{{More citations needed|date=November 2009}}

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'''City Place''' is a mixed-use facility featuring two 20-story buildings in central [[Fort Worth, Texas]]. The complex was formerly known as '''Tandy Center''' and served as the corporate headquarters for [[RadioShack]] (formerly Tandy Corporation) for many years, designed by Growald Architects of Fort Worth, Texas and built by [[The Beck Group|Beck]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Radio Shack Corporate Headquarters |url=https://www.beckgroup.com/projects/radio-shack-corporate-headquarters/ |access-date=2022-06-17 |website=The Beck Group |date=24 September 2014 |language=en-US}}</ref> During the Tandy/RadioShack years, the complex included a mall and an ice skating rink.

Leonard's Department Store opened on the site on February 12, 1963. In 1967, the Tandy Corporation bought the chain of department stores.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Leonard's Department Store: A Buy-Gone Era {{!}} Hometown by Handlebar |url=https://hometownbyhandlebar.com/?p=8207 |access-date=2022-06-17 |website=hometownbyhandlebar.com}}</ref>  As the corporation grew, it needed a new headquarters and so it demolished the department store in 1974 and constructed its headquarters on the site.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nicholson • • |first=Christine |title=The Changing Face of City Place |url=https://www.nbcdfw.com/local/changing-face-of-city-place/2089021/ |access-date=2022-06-17 |website=NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth |date=7 March 2011 |language=en-US}}</ref> The new Tandy Center included two office towers as well as a mall with an indoor ice skating rink. The mall was anchored by [[Dillard's]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth |first=Tex ) |date=1977-10-12 |title=[News Clip: Dillards] |url=https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1285676/m1/ |access-date=2022-06-17 |website=The Portal to Texas History |language=English}}</ref> In the 1990s the mall began to decline and the anchor tenant moved out in 1995. It was turned into an outlet store shopping center with hopes of it revitalizing [[Downtown Fort Worth]],<ref>{{Citation |title=WFAA News 8 Fort Worth Outlet Square Tandy Center | date=January 2008 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5rq_-LQ2Rg |language=en |access-date=2022-06-17}}</ref> but these efforts failed and the mall was shuttered in the 2000s. It has since been demolished.

Originally built by the department store Leonard's as '''Leonard's M&O Subway''', the [[Tandy Center Subway]] operated between the center and fringe parking lots from 1963 to 2002. When Leonard's was demolished the subway station was preserved and integrated into the new Tandy Center complex.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tandy Subway |url=http://www.jtbell.net/transit/FtWorth/ |access-date=2022-06-17 |website=www.jtbell.net}}</ref>

In 2000, [[2000 Fort Worth tornado|a tornado]] hit Fort Worth, causing damage to several downtown buildings including the Tandy Center.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fort Worth Tornado - March 28, 2000 |url=https://www.fortwortharchitecture.com/tornado.htm |access-date=2022-06-17 |website=www.fortwortharchitecture.com}}</ref>

In 2001, the RadioShack Corporation sold the Tandy Center to another company, and made plans to construct a new corporate headquarters a few blocks away on the Trinity River.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-08-27 |title=RadioShack History: Founding, Timeline, and Milestones |url=https://www.zippia.com/radioshack-careers-60612/history/ |access-date=2022-06-17 |website=www.zippia.com |language=en-US}}</ref> The new owner renamed the complex City Place. The former shopping mall was demolished in 2011, making way for a new garage with retail on the ground floor. As of 2021, City Place includes two multi-story buildings on opposite sides of Throckmorton Street, connected by a pedestrian [[skyway]]. The structures are made up principally of office and parking space.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dfwi.org/go/city-place|title=Downtown Fort Worth, Inc.|accessdate=27 July 2021}}</ref>

==References==

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* [http://www.fortwortharchitecture.com/tandy.htm City Place] from [http://www.fortwortharchitecture.com FortWorthArchitecture.com]

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