Format
Brief
City
Philadelphia
State/Province
PA
Country
USA
Metro Area
Philadelphia
Project Type
Office Building(s)
Location Type
Central Business District
Land Uses
Entertainment
Office
Open space
Parking
Restaurant
Retail
Keywords
Atrium
Corporate headquarters
High-rise development
LEED Gold certified
Public plaza
Skyline transformation
Sustainable development
Transit-oriented development
ULI Awards for Excellence 2009 Winner
Winter garden
Site Size
2
acres
acres
hectares
Date Started
2005
Date Opened
2009
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Situated in downtown Philadelphia, Comcast Center is a glass-encased, 58-story office tower that occupies a long-underused parcel—formerly an enclosed surface parking lot—in the heart of the central business district. The high-performance office building contains 1.25 million square feet (116,500 m2) of Class A office space and 35,507 square feet (3,299 m2) of retail space. It features a dramatic eight-story winter garden with one of the largest LED video walls in the world; a half-acre (0.2-ha) public plaza with a seasonal café; and an upgraded extension of the underground connection to the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority’s Suburban Station, the city’s busiest commuter transit stop. The LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold building, the tallest point of the Philadelphia skyline, is 99 percent leased and home to the corporate headquarters of the Comcast Corporation.
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Format
Brief
City
Philadelphia
State/Province
PA
Country
USA
Metro Area
Philadelphia
Project Type
Office Building(s)
Location Type
Central Business District
Land Uses
Entertainment
Office
Open space
Parking
Restaurant
Retail
Keywords
Atrium
Corporate headquarters
High-rise development
LEED Gold certified
Public plaza
Skyline transformation
Sustainable development
Transit-oriented development
ULI Awards for Excellence 2009 Winner
Winter garden
Site Size
2
acres
acres
hectares
Date Started
2005
Date Opened
2009
Developer
Liberty Property Trust
Malvern, PA
Owner
Liberty/Commerz 1701 JFK Boulevard, L.P.
Philadelphia, PA
Design Architect
Robert A.M Stern Architects, LLP
New York, NY
Architect of Record
Kendall/Heaton Associates, Inc.
Houston, TX
Website
www.libertyproperty.com/comcast.asp
Principal Author(s)
Theodore Thoerig, Alexandra Notay, David Leipziger
ULI Awards for Excellence 2009 Winner