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English: Built in 1968-1971, this Brutalist Modern 29-story skyscraper was designed by Marcel Breuer was constructed for the Cleveland Trust Company as an office annex to their original building, and stands immediately to the south of the original structure. When it was completed, it towered over the original structure, dwarfing it with its massive scale, and featured a facade clad in dark concrete panels, with a grid of concrete-framed punched window openings on the upper floors, and relatively simple, unadorned facades at the top and bottom of the structure, with wide and tall openings on the ground floor. A second wing of the tower was planned at one point to mirror the constructed tower, but wrapping the east side of the original Cleveland Trust building, which would have led to the demolition of the Swetland Building. However, these plans were never carried out, in large part due to the economic and demographic decline of Northeast Ohio that began during the 1970s. The building remained in use by the Cleveland Trust Company until 1991, when the Cleveland Trust Company merged with Society National Bank. This was followed by an acquisition by Key Bank in 1993, which no longer needed the structure for banking purposes, and the final offices moved out in 1996, with all operations moved to the Key Tower. The building was largely empty and closed to the public until 2005, when it was purchased by Cuyahoga County, which intended to convert the complex into a new government center, a plan which was never realized. The county government then sold the complex in 2012, and the developer converted the Cleveland Trust Tower into a hotel and apartments during a rehabilitation and adaptive reuse project in 2013-2014. The building, now known as The 9 Cleveland, is one of the many bright spots of the revitalized and vibrant Downtown Cleveland.