FortWayne / Commerce Building
Commerce Building (Star Building)
127 West Berry Street
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The Commerce Building (looking from the southwest), with the National City Center (left) and Lincoln National Bank Tower (right) in the background.
The Commerce Building, currently more widely known as the Star Financial Bank Building (or Star Building), is at 127 West Berry Street in downtown Fort Wayne. The Beaux Arts style 13 story, 177' tall building was constructed in 1923, and was the tallest commercial building in Fort Wayne until the Lincoln National Bank Tower (one block east) was constructed in 1929-30.
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The idea that ‘the public interest’ supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.
