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Five Penn Center

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Status
  
Complete

Opening
  
1970

Height
  
149 m

Opened
  
1970

Type
  
Office

Roof
  
490 ft (150 m)

Floors
  
36

Architect
  
Emery Roth

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Location
  
1601 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Owner
  
Equity Office Properties Trust

Similar
  
Wells Fargo Building, Lewis Tower, PNC Bank Building, G Fred DiBona Jr Building, 1601 Vine Street

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.

Map of Five Penn Center, 1601 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA

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

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 The Radian Group. The building's lobby underwent remodeling in the summer of 2006.

References

Five Penn Center Wikipedia