BNY Mellon Center (Philadelphia)

BNY Mellon Center is a 54-story office skyscraper located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The height to its structural top is 792 ft (241 m). Construction was completed in 1990.<ref name="CTBUH"/> The building was formerly called Mellon Bank Center until 2009,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> when it was renamed as part of a branding initiative for the newly formed Bank of New York Mellon.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref name="PY-2021-1"/> In early 2019, the building was sold for $451.6 million, a record for a Philadelphia property.<ref name="TPI"-2019-1">Template:Cite news</ref>

History

The building was designed by the architectural firm of Kohn Pedersen Fox.<ref name="PY-2021-1">Template:Cite news</ref> It stands on the former site of the city's Greyhound bus terminal.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The address of the building is 1735 Market Street (between Market Street and John F. Kennedy Boulevard, just east of 18th Street.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

BNY Mellon Center is part of a complex of office buildings known as Penn Center and as such is alternately known as Nine Penn Center.<ref name="CTBUH"/> A shopping concourse underneath the building connects to an adjacent winter garden and Suburban Station.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> BNY Mellon Center is the fifth tallest building in Philadelphia.<ref name="CTBUH"/>

A private club called the Pyramid Club occupies the 52nd floor of the building.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Tenants

Tenants have included the headquarters of Sunoco and FMC Corporation.<ref>"Sunoco will move out of Philadelphia to new headquarters in Pa. suburbs"</ref><ref>"FMC Locations" Template:Webarchive, FMC Corp.</ref> It also houses offices of Aon Corporation, The Boston Consulting Group, UBS, Goldman Sachs, and law firms including Ballard Spahr, Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller, Hogan Lovells, and Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads.<ref name="TPI"-2019-1"/><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In popular culture

The lobby of this building made an appearance in the 1993 film Philadelphia, starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

See also

• List of skyscrapers
• List of tallest buildings in Philadelphia
• List of tallest buildings in the world
• List of tallest buildings in the United States
• List of masts
• List of towers
• BNY Mellon Center (Pittsburgh)

References

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