Center City Tower was the working name of a formerly proposed
skyscraper
A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors. Modern sources currently define skyscrapers as being at least or in height, though there is no universally accepted definition. Skyscrapers are very tall high-ris ...
in
downtown Philadelphia.
Designed and proposed by the firm now known as
KlingStubbins (designers of Philadelphia's
Penn Center and
Bell Atlantic Tower
Three Logan Square, formerly the Bell Atlantic Tower, is a 55-story skyscraper located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Standing 739 ft (225 m) tall to its structural top, the building encloses of office space. The building, designed by the ...
), the building would have risen to a height of 1,050 feet (320 m) and 75 stories, making it the tallest building in The United States outside New York and Chicago, surpassing the height of the
Bank of America Plaza in
Atlanta. With a floor area of , it is one of the largest in Center City.
The building was designed with an oblate footprint and several setbacks to the top culminating in a spire. Renderings depict it being sheathed in blue glass with studios/media center on the ground level.
History
The plot this building was designed to occupy was made available after the
One Meridian Plaza fire on February 23, 1991 which left the building uninhabitable. The relative lack of a need for that much office space in Philadelphia ultimately doomed the proposal. In addition, two new highrises -
Residences at the Ritz and
1441 Chestnut have occupied and bifurcated the original plot.
A long-lived rumor held that the building was being designed with
Comcast
Comcast Corporation (formerly known as American Cable Systems and Comcast Holdings),Before the AT&T merger in 2001, the parent company was Comcast Holdings Corporation. Comcast Holdings Corporation now refers to a subsidiary of Comcast Corpora ...
Corporation, Philadelphia's most high-profile corporation, in mind. Such a rumor would have been killed on January 5, 2005, the day
Comcast Center was officially launched.
See also
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List of tallest buildings in Philadelphia
References
Emporis - Center City Tower (Philadelphia)
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