WestStar Tower
The WestStar Tower is a high-rise located at 601 North Mesa Street in Downtown El Paso, Texas. It was completed in 2021 and surpassed the Wells Fargo Plaza as the tallest building in El Paso, with a height of. The tower has 20 stories in total. Covering an entire city block, the tower has a ground-level park area, outdoor seating and dining, and about 262,000 square feet of Class A+ office space. Alongside this, it also has 13,000 square feet of office and retail space on the ground floor. On completion, the building was the first skyscraper above 300 feet built in El Paso for nearly 50 years.
History
2018
June–December
- On June 20, 2018, Hunt Companies and WestStar announced the groundbreaking of a multi-level, multi-tenant Class A office high-rise skyscraper in Downtown El Paso. The land on which the tower would be built, formerly a parking lot between Mesa Street and Missouri Avenue, was cleared for building. The tower will become the new corporate headquarters for Hunt and WestStar.
- On December 20, 2018, construction went vertical on the tower.
2019
January–February
- The ground floor of the tower was completed in early February.
2020
January–April
- In early March, the estimated completion date of the tower was moved to winter 2020. This date was further changed to early 2021.
May
- On May 21, the last steel beam was placed on the tower.
Tenants
- Corralito Steakhouse
- Hunt Companies
- WestStar