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Tower built 1968–1970 · Aloft opened early 2017
Lead: The Oliver Hotel's corner did not stay empty. Construction began in 1968 on a twenty-five-story bank tower — the American National Bank Building, later the Valley American Bank Building, the Chase Tower, and today Liberty Tower — topped out in 1970. Its opening is carried in two forms: late 1970, in the Skyscraper Center's record, and 1971 in the Tribune's; both are printed. The building's full architecture course belongs to the Architecture account of this record; its hotel course is this entry's. A Holiday Inn operated the tower's hotel floors — the Skyscraper Center carries the name Holiday Inn – City Center among the building's tenants — with more than 185 rooms in the encyclopedia's account of the property, and the Summit Club occupied the twenty-fifth floor from 1971 to 2012, a tenancy the private-clubs record of this history carries. For four decades the corner of Main and Washington lodged travelers again, in a tower, under a chain's flag.
The tower's distress is documented in the trade record: the building fell into receivership in 2011, and Washington Square Realty acquired it through foreclosure in March 2014. By then the hotel floors traded as the Magnuson Grand, at about 180 rooms, and the Magnuson closed in June 2014 — the hotel-trade press set the closing for 13 June 2014; an April 2015 account confirms it "closed in June last year." The remake was announced on 21 September 2015: a thirty-million-dollar mixed-use project whose hotel piece was an Aloft — Starwood's first hotel in the region and the first Aloft in Indiana — with 183 loft-style rooms on eleven floors, 3,750 square feet of meeting space, a fifteen-million-dollar hotel redesign by Kraemer Design Group, and eighty-three apartments in the same tower. The Aloft South Bend opened in early 2017 and operates today. Its address is carried in two forms by its own trade: Marriott's current listing gives 111 North Main Street; the project press gave the tower's address as 211 and 213 West Washington Street — the corner building answering to both streets, printed as sourced.
Sources:
- The Skyscraper Center / CTBUH (construction 1968; topped out 1970; opened late 1970; Holiday Inn – City Center among the names).
- South Bend Tribune (the tower opened 1971; the 2015 remake announcement).
- Hotel-trade press, 2014–2015 (receivership 2011; the March 2014 foreclosure acquisition; the Magnuson Grand closing, June 2014; the Aloft project figures).
- Marriott, current listing for Aloft South Bend (111 North Main Street), November 2026.