Citizens Financial Center

Corporation, a regional banking firm in the Northeast U.S.

Citizens Financial Center was completed in 1951 and it has 41 floors. It rises 518 feet or 158 meters above Downtown Pittsburgh. It is located at William Penn Place and Forbes Avenue.

The structure was the Global Headquarters for both Mellon Financial and U.S. Steel when it opened in 1951. Although U.S. Steel moved into U.S. Steel Tower in 1970, Mellon Financial kept the tower as its headquarters until the early 1980s when it eventually moved to One Mellon Center. Mellon Financial kept the skyscraper as Three Mellon Center using the office space as a secondary base. In the late 1990s however Mellon built a modern LEED-certifiedFact|date=July 2008 operations skyscraper closer to its Grant Street Global Headquarters and sold its retail banking locations to Citizens Financial, Citizens as part of the deal moved its regional headquarters to the skyscraper on William Penn Place.

Although its global headquarters are elsewhere, the Pittsburgh tower represents the most identifiable and tallest structure with the "Citizens Financial" name on it.huh

References

*cite book | author=Toker, Franklin | title=Buildings of Pittsburgh | location=Pittsburgh | publisher=Chicago: Society of Architectural Historians; Santa Fe: Center for American Places ; Charlottesville: In association with the University of Virginia Press | year=2007 | id=ISBN 0-8139-2650-5