Mellon Bank Center

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building_name= Mellon Bank Center


caption= Mellon Bank Center in foreground with One Liberty Place behind it
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location= 1735 Market Street
Philadelphia
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constructed= 1990
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roof= 792 feet (241 meters)
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architect= Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
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owner= HRPT Properties Trust

Mellon Bank Center is a 54 story skyscraper located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The height to its structural top is 792 ft (241 m). Construction was completed in 1990.

The building was designed by the architecture firm of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, and is owned by HRPT Properties Trust.

The building stands on the former site of the city's Greyhound bus terminal. The address of the building is 1735 Market Street (between Market Street and John F. Kennedy Boulevard, just east of 18th Street).

Mellon Bank Center is part of a complex of office buildings known as Penn Center and as such, the building is alternately known as Nine Penn Center. A shopping concourse exists beneath the building which connects to an adjacent winter garden and Penn Center Suburban Station. Mellon Bank Center is currently the 161st tallest building in the world and 4th tallest building in Philadelphia.

A private club called the Pyramid Club occupies the pyramid-shaped penthouse (52nd Floor) of the building.

Tenants include the headquarters of Sunoco, Citizens Bank, Aberdeen Asset Management, Aon Corporation, FMC Corporation, an office of Goldman Sachs, and the law firms Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP and Dilworth Paxson LLP.

The lobby of this building made an appearance in the 1993 film "Philadelphia" starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington.

ee 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

External links

* [http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=117939 Emporis]