Five Penn Center

36-story highrise in downtown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Five Penn Center

Five Penn Center in Center City Philadelphia

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Five Penn Center (Pennsylvania)

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General information
Status| Completed
Type| Office
Location| 1601 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Coordinates| 39°57′11″N 75°10′03″W﻿ / ﻿39.9531°N 75.1674°W﻿ / 39.9531; -75.1674
Opening| 1970
Owner| APF Properties
Height
Roof| 490 ft (150 m)
Technical details
Floor count| 36
Floor area| 681,289 sq ft (63,293.8 m2)
Design and construction
Architect(s)| Emery Roth & Sons

Five Penn Center is a 36-story highrise in Center City Philadelphia. It is part of the Penn Center complex designed by Edmund Bacon. The building was one of the tallest in the city until the high rise building boom of the late 1980s and early 1990s and is connected via underground concourse to Suburban Station, as are all buildings in the complex.

It was designed by Emery Roth & Sons and Vincent G. Kling (who also designed the Philadelphia Mint).[1]

In 1986, several buildings of the Penn Center complex were renamed to their street addresses and Five Penn was no exception. Looking to get an edge up, being the largest of the Penn Center buildings and directly across Market Street from One Liberty Place, which was rising at the time, building landlords offered rental space at $16.01 a year per square foot, a marketing ploy for the building based on its address, 1601.

Today, major tenants include The Neat Company, KPMG and WeWork. The building's lobby underwent remodeling in the summer of 2006.

## See also[edit]

* Philadelphia portal

* List of tallest buildings in Philadelphia
* Tallest buildings in the United States
* List of skyscrapers
* World's tallest structures

## References[edit]

1. ^ Vincent Kling - Ed Bacon Foundation - Retrieved August 31, 2008 Archived February 16, 2012, at the Wayback Machine

* Emporis - Five Penn Center[dead link]
* SkyscraperPage - Five Penn Center
* Philadelphia Business Journal - Marketing Tactics Rename The Penns

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Skyscrapers in Philadelphia

Current|

* 1601 Vine Street
* 1700 Market
* 1706 Rittenhouse
* 1818 Market Street
* 1835 Market Street
* 2000 Market Street
* Aramark Tower
* BNY Mellon Center
* Centre Square I
* Centre Square II
* Cira Centre
* Evo at Cira Centre South
* Comcast Center
* Comcast Technology Center
* FMC Tower at Cira Centre South
* Five Penn Center
* G. Fred DiBona Jr. Building
* Loews Philadelphia Hotel
* One Liberty Place
* Two Liberty Place
* Lewis Tower
* Murano
* One Commerce Square
* One Logan Square
* One South Broad
* PECO Building
* Philadelphia City Hall
* PNC Bank Building
* Ritz-Carlton Philadelphia
* The Residences at The Ritz-Carlton
* The St. James
* Three Logan Square
* Two Commerce Square
* Two Logan Square
* Wells Fargo Building
* W Hotel Philadelphia

Under construction|

* The Laurel

Demolished|

* One Meridian Plaza

Approved|

* 3601 Market Street

Proposed|

* 2901 Arch Street
* 3101 Market
* Bridgman's View Tower
* Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Schuylkill Ave. expansion

* See also: Tallest buildings in Philadelphia
* Architecture of Philadelphia

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