History
The Green Branch trademark is an example of PNC’s leadership in “green” business practices and its commitment to significantly reduce the company’s impact on the environment. PNC was named in the November 2007 issue of Working Mother magazine as one of the nation’s “2007 Best Green Companies for America’s Children.”
PNC’s first green building, PNC Firstside Center, opened in 2000 as the nation’s largest, LEED-certified green building at 650,000 square feet (60,000 m2) – the equivalent of 12 football fields. Built on a reclaimed brownfield site, it houses a 24/7 bank operations center in downtown Pittsburgh with 1,500 employees.
In 2002, PNC opened the financial services industry’s first Gold Level, LEED-certified green building in Wilmington, Del. The building is headquarters to PNC Global Investment Servicing, PNC’s mutual fund processing business.
Besides dozens of future Green Branch locations, PNC plans to pursue LEED certification for two major buildings in development. The first is Three PNC Plaza in downtown Pittsburgh, which is scheduled to open in 2009 as the nation’s largest green, “mixed-use” building (23 floors) with offices, retail shops, a hotel and condominiums. The other is 800 17th Street/PNC Place, the new regional headquarters for PNC’s Greater Washington region, slated to open in 2010 and located two blocks from the White House.
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