Breaking: New Giant Skyscraper Announced As Part of Cira Centre South [UPDATED]

Rendering of the high-rise tower to be built at Cira Centre South.

Brandywine Realty Trust and the FMC Corporation have a huge announcement today: FMC will have a new headquarters, and that headquarters will be called FMC Tower at Cira Centre South. The design, like that of the original Cira Centre, will be handled in part by Pelli Clark Pelli. According a press release sent this morning, the building will be the sixth tallest office building in Philadelphia at 650 feet and 47 stories.

It will consist of approximately 830,000 rentable square feet: 575,000 square feet of Class A office space, 10,000 square feet of retail space, and 260 luxury apartment suites with concierge services and market rate rental housing.

Groundbreaking is currently scheduled for mid-2014.

More details to follow… See here for renderings.