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801 Grand

Iowa, United States

The 516th tallest building in the world

192 m · 630 ft

801 Grand High Rise Building (referred to as the 801 Grand Building and previously known as The Principal Building) is an office skyscraper in Des Moines, Iowa, United States, operated and managed by JLL Americas and owned by Principal Financial Group (Principal Real Estate). The building was constructed from 1989 to 1991; and at a height of 630 feet (190 m) and 45 stories, it is the tallest building in both Des Moines and the state of Iowa. It is part of a larger downtown campus run by Principal Financial Group and features a skywalk and an eight-sided copper pyramid at its top.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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