Bell Atlantic Tower (also known as the Verizon Tower) is a 53 story high-rise located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Height to structural top is 739 ft (225 m) with construction being completed in 1991. The building encloses 1.3 million square feet of office space. The building was designed by the Philadelphia-based architecture firm Kling Lindquist.

A city ordinance declared that no building within 250 feet of the nearby Benjamin Franklin Parkway can rise higher than 250 feet. As such, the Bell Atlantic Tower stands at the southernmost edge of its plot, farther away from the parkway, to take full advatage of its height. A landscaped plaza, constructed from the same red granite as the building itself, occupies the rest of the land, fulfilling a city requirement that 1% of the total budget for new building construction must go towards a work of public art.

A banquet hall, known as Top Of The Tower, exists on the top floor of the building and is available for public rentals.

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