PHILADELPHIA | Comcast Technology Center | 1,121 FT | 60 FLOORS

[City Wide]

Unless their plans for a future building are fully ready to go, both in a construction sense and also in a business sense, why would Roberts or anyone publicly even hint at the possibility of another building on their campus? What would be the up side of taking that risk? If the plans were to fall through for any reason that would be a very public black mark for Comcast to live with.

Comcast II sounds like a very special building, designed and built for some non-traditional uses. Uses that couldn't be readily found in other CC buildings. If Comcast's long and short term future needs are for conventical office space then continuing to rent large blocks of sq. footage in other CC towers makes much more sense economically then building new space from the ground up.

Having said all that, I would like to see them build another tall, skyline changing building. But my guess is that if and when III is built, it will be on the SW corner of the block where I is built. They already control that site, it would be easily integrated into the underground complex and I'd bet that the City would allow them to build taller then present zoning might allow. If Comcast promises to increase their city based employment by 1K the City would be nuts not to allow them an additional 10 floors (just to make up a example)