Editing Pan Am (section)

==Corporate affairs==
For much of its history the corporate headquarters were the [[MetLife Building|Pan Am Building]] in [[Midtown Manhattan]], [[New York City]].

When [[Juan Trippe]] had the company offices relocated to New York City, he rented space in a building on [[42nd Street (Manhattan)|42nd Street]]. This facility was across from the [[Grand Central Terminal]]. From a period in the 1930s until 1963, the airline headquarters were in the [[Chrysler Building]]<ref name=Clausenp137>Clausen, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=E6qRuyzOogIC&pg=PA137 137] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022173301/https://books.google.com/books?id=E6qRuyzOogIC&pg=PA137 |date=October 22, 2022 }}.</ref> on 135 East 42nd Street, also in Midtown Manhattan.<ref>National Research Council (US). Committee on Latin American Anthropology, Alexander Lesser. ''Survey of Research on Latin America by United States Scientists and Institutions''. [[National Academies]], 1946. p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=iEsrAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA70 70] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022173301/https://books.google.com/books?id=iEsrAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA70 |date=October 22, 2022 }}. "Pan American World Airways System, 135 East 42nd Street, New York 17, N.Y."</ref>

In September 1960 Trippe and developer [[Erwin Wolfson]] signed a {{FXConvert|USA|115.5|m|year=1960|cursign=$|index=US-GDP|showdate=no}} lease agreement for the airline to occupy {{convert|613000|sqft|sqm|adj=on}} worth of space for the headquarters, totaling about 15 floors, and a new main ticket office at the intersection of 45th Street and Vanderbilt Avenue. At the time, the 30-year lease in the Chrysler Building was nearing the end of its life. The new lease was scheduled for 25 years.<ref name=Clausenp137/>