Tower of Power

John and Pamela Egan's favorite view from high above Boston Common is of the Frog Pond ice rink, where their 16-year-old daughter, a figure skater, performed to open the rink the past two winters. "At night, you can see the lights" of the Frog Pond, John Egan says.

The Egans and their three children live in a 4,000-square-foot condominium on the 15th floor of One Charles, the "it" building of 2006 for a number of corporate titans.

The roster of chieftains who moved into the 233-unit development, built by Millennium Partners-Boston, includes Mark Atkins, chief executive of Invention Machine Corp.; Arthur Solomon, chief executive of DSF Real Estate Investors LLC; Nathanial Wolfson, founder of Thrive Networks Inc. in Concord; and Stephen Hendrickson, former chief executive of Christian Book Distributors in Peabody. Money-management titans living there include Paul Ciriello of the Boston venture-capital firm TD Capital and Peter Voss, retired chief executive of Ixis Asset Management.

Janet Evanovich, author of the popular series of novels about the antics of bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, adds literary cachet to the mix.

"It was one of the quickest-selling buildings in the last five years in Boston for people who wanted to be pampered, who wanted to be catered to," says Re/Max Destiny agent Marc Denoia, who handled $20 million in purchases for his clients in the building.

And John Egan? He happens to be the less-well-known Egan of EMC Corp., but he worked side-by-side with his father, Richard, for two decades to build the data-storage company into the state's biggest technology firm. He remains on EMC's board and runs Egan-Managed Capital, which invests the family fortune. In August 2004, he purchased two adjoining units for $4.25 million, according to public records.

KIMBERLY BLANTON