Center City Philadelphia is the second largest residential downtown in the country and the largest job center in the region, with almost 300,000 people working downtown.

Find resources from government and non-profit organizations available to companies looking to move, expand or grow jobs in Philadelphia.

This new CCD/CPDC report examines the current state of the downtown restaurant and retail sectors. Using pedestrian, transit and parking occupancy counts and detailed visual surveys of almost 2,000 retail premises, conducted by CCD staff, the report provides a close-up look at business conditions, supplemented with information from the commercial office sector, employment trends, housing market data and ecommerce trends.

In the next few years several large-scale, mixed-use developments will invest more than $815 million and add more than 1 million square feet of new retail, in Center City East.

Explore Center City's shopping districts, filled with local boutiques, national retailers, art galleries, casual and fine-dining restaurants, and more, for a fun and unique shopping experience in the heart of the city.

With the installation of 14 cameras that measure pedestrian volumes 24 hours a day, the CCD now provides retailers, brokers, and developers with detailed counts and analyses of hourly trends.