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500 Park Avenue Tower. September 1984Now Amro Bank Building, formerly the Olivetti Building and originally the Pepsi-Cola BuildingDeveloper: The Pepsi-Cola CompanyErected: 1960 (original low-rise office building) 1986 (tower expansion)A modest Modernist 10-story office building with a glass-and-alumninum facade, built for the soft-drink company in 1960 to a Skidmore, Owings & Merrill design. Pepsi soon moved to suburban Westchester, and the building became home to the Olivetti Corporation, the style-conscious maker of office equipment. Now house Amro Bank as well as the Janet Sortin spa.