Picture yourself in Tucson back in 1977—bell bottoms, disco, and suddenly, this gleaming giant called the Bank of America Plaza shoots up into the sky! It was taller than anything else around, stealing the spotlight from the Pima County Legal Services Building, which must have felt like an older sibling getting outgrown overnight. Architects Friedman & Jobusch wanted to build something you couldn’t miss, and with DEFCO Construction on the job, they made sure you’d spot this building from all over downtown. For almost a decade, it was Tucson’s tallest, giving everyone else a serious case of “building envy” until One South Church finally topped it in 1986.
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