1 Bank of America Center

1 Bank of America Center is a 484-foot (148 m) tall office high-rise in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States.

[1] It shares a second-story atrium with the adjacent Ritz-Carlton Hotel and is connected to the Bank of America Corporate Center by two skybridges, as part of the Overstreet Mall.

The project relieved fears that the bank would move its headquarters to New York City.

The bank CEO Ken Lewis addressed these fears by saying "Speaking for my tenure, this will be the headquarters, and it will not be in New York."

Initially the bank planned to occupy half of the 750,000 square feet (70,000 m2) in the building and have it house 1,200 employees.

This action by the bank was part of a nationwide effort to shrink its real estate footprint.

It also has an urban garden that a six-story atrium between the building and the hotel that is open to the public.