Five Penn Center

Five Penn Center is a 36-story highrise in downtown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Penn Center complex designed by Edmund Bacon. The building was one of the tallest in the city until the highrise 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.

Five Penn Center
Location within Philadelphia
Five Penn Center (Pennsylvania)
Five Penn Center (the United States)
General information
StatusComplete
TypeOffice
Location1601 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Coordinates39.9531°N 75.1674°W / 39.9531; -75.1674
Opening1970
OwnerAPF Properties
Height
Roof490 ft (150 m)
Technical details
Floor count36
Floor area681,289 sq ft (63,293.8 m2)
Design and construction
ArchitectEmery Roth & Sons

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

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