30TH STREET STATION | PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation (“Amtrak”) is a private corporation which operates the national passenger rail system. Amtrak owns 30th Street Station, Philadelphia’s grand railroad terminal and the central point in the nation’s second busiest intermodal transportation network. As a direct result of AEGIS PROPERTY GROUP’s Master Planning work Amtrak set forth with a plan to develop Phase II of its “Air Rights Development,” a multi-tenanted office tower that would provide immediate access to the Station and the Northeast Corridor train service. This effort began in 2002, with a request for proposal to private-sector developers and culminated in development of Cira Centre, a 727,000 s.f. 28-story Class A office tower which began construction in 2004 and was occupied in the fall of 2005. This $200 million project is owned and developed by Brandywine Realty Trust. The project team includes Cesar Pelli Associates and Bower Lewis Thrower Architects as the Architects and Turner Construction Company as the Contractor.