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.

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Demand for Center City retail has been built upon a diversified base of office, education and health care workers, a large and growing downtown population and an expanding number of tourists and convention attendees. At the center of the region’s highway and transit system, Center City is the most concentrated employment node in the region, hosting 42% of Philadelphia’s jobs, creating opportunity for residents of all city neighborhoods and surrounding counties.

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 20 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.