Green glass and steel sheathe the BB&T Financial Center at 200 West 2nd Street, 340 feet and 21 floors of postmodern Winston-Salem. It is the 5th tallest building in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States, with 271,445 square feet (25,218.1 m2) of space spread over 21 floors. Completed in 1987, the tower once bore the name One Triad Park and was completed at a cost of $24 million.
Aetna Life Insurance Company bought the building in 1991 for $10.1 million after foreclosure when previous owners could not pay a $26 million loan. In the early 1990s Southern National Bank moved some operations to Winston-Salem; One Triad Park had 74,000 square feet Southern National could occupy immediately, and in 1993 Southern National took 80,000 square feet on eight floors, prompting a name change to Southern National Financial Center on May 3. On August 1, 1994, BB&T and Southern National announced a "merger," and following that corporate turn, the building served as the headquarters of BB&T from the merger of BB&T and Southern National Bank in 1995.
The 19th floor houses The Piedmont Club, with 13,232 square feet. Picture the green glass facade climbing to the 19th-floor Piedmont Club, high above 200 West 2nd Street.