BNY Mellon has already shifted nearly half of its downtown Pittsburgh workforce into the revamped 500 Ross Street tower, a key move in the bank’s effort to redraw its footprint in the Golden Triangle. Staffers are settling into a refreshed campus of offices and amenities while construction crews keep working on the remaining floors. Company leaders say the phased relocation is designed to pull more employees back into Downtown and turn the complex into a magnet for tech and operations talent.
According to the Pittsburgh Business Times, a new cafeteria is already serving workers, and a state-of-the-art fitness center is slated to open this summer. The outlet reports that nearly half of BNY’s Downtown staff are now based on completed floors at 500 Ross, with additional teams moving in as each section of the building is finished.
What’s in the Ross Street campus
The Ross Street campus is a roughly 700,000-square-foot overhaul of BNY’s former client-services center and now includes renovated office floors, a coffee bar, and a rooftop terrace, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The paper notes that the bank has been steadily opening new amenities and office space to employees, even as renovation work continues on other levels…