Three Logan Square, formerly the Bell Atlantic Tower, is a 55-story skyscraper located in

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. Standing 739 ft (225 m) tall to its structural top, the building encloses of office space. The building, designed by the Philadelphia-based architecture firm Kling Lindquist, was completed in 1991. A city ordinance dictates that no building within of the nearby

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may rise taller than ; the tower stands just outside this zone. A landscaped plaza, constructed of the same red granite as the building, occupies the rest of the plot, fulfilling a city requirement that 1% of the total budget for new building construction must go toward a work of public art. A banquet hall, known as Top of the Tower, occupies the top floor of the building and is available for public rentals. It was the headquarters for Philadelphia-based

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Bell Atlantic until 1996, when Bell Atlantic acquired

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-based

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and moved its headquarters to New York. In 2000, Bell Atlantic and

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merged to become

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and the "Bell Atlantic" name became obsolete. However, the building's managers kept the original name, mainly because of the difficulties in getting all necessary parties to agree to change it. The building had been offered for sale in the past, and on August 5, 2010, it was sold to

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. The company has since renamed the tower Three Logan Square, to better identify its location near two other Brandywine-owned buildings,

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and

Two Logan Square Two Logan Square is a highrise office building in Center City Philadelphia just off the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The building is known for its signature roofline with a backlit clock. It is a companion building to One Logan Square which stands a ...

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