Three Logan Square

Three Logan Square, formerly the Bell Atlantic Tower, is a 55-story high-rise office building located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Standing 739 ft (225 m) tall to its structural top, the building encloses 1300000sqft of office space. The building, designed by the Philadelphia-based architecture firm Kling Lindquist, was completed in 1991. The design of the building resembles a RJ-11 telephone jackA city ordinance declared that no building within 250ft of the nearby Benjamin Franklin Parkway may rise taller than 250ft. The Bell Atlantic Tower stands at the southernmost edge of this zone. A landscaped plaza, constructed of the same red granite as the building itself, 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.Although in 2000 Bell Atlantic and GTE merged to become Verizon and the "Bell Atlantic" name became obsolete, 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 Brandywine Realty Trust. The company has since renamed the tower Three Logan Square, to better identify its location near two other Brandywine-owned buildings, One and Two Logan Square.