BNY Mellon Center (Philadelphia)

The BNY Mellon Center is a tall office building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It has 54 stories and reaches a height of 792 feet (241 meters). The building was finished in 1990 and was first called the Mellon Bank Center. In 2009, it was renamed BNY Mellon Center after the Bank of New York Mellon was created.

In early 2019, the building was sold for $451.6 million, which was the highest price ever paid for a building in Philadelphia at that time. Today, it remains one of the city's most important and recognizable skyscrapers.

History

The building was designed by the architectural firm of Kohn Pedersen Fox. It is located where the city's old Greyhound bus terminal used to be, at 1735 Market Street between Market Street and John F. Kennedy Boulevard, just east of 18th Street.

BNY Mellon Center is part of a group of office buildings called Penn Center and is also known as Nine Penn Center. A shopping area under the building links to a nearby winter garden and Suburban Station. It is the fifth tallest building in Philadelphia. A private club named the Pyramid Club is on the 52nd floor.

Tenants

The BNY Mellon Center has been home to many important companies. Some of these include the headquarters of Sunoco and FMC Corporation. Other offices in the building belong to companies like Aon Corporation, The Boston Consulting Group, UBS, and Goldman Sachs. There are also law offices such as Ballard Spahr, Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller, Hogan Lovells, and Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads.

In popular culture

The lobby of this building appeared in the film Philadelphia from 1993, which starred Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington.