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Center City is a thriving, 24-hour downtown, full of history, three centuries of architecture, and arts and cultural offerings, with an amazing variety of unique retail shops, and nationally acclaimed restaurants.

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Learn from those in-the-know why Condé Nast Traveler named Philadelphia the Best Shopping City in America. Explore downtown Philadelphia's best kept shopping and dining secrets with our group of ambassadors. If it's in, it's in Center City.

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Dining

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Living

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Events

Find fun things to do in Philadelphia's downtown.

The Center City District (CCD), Central Philadelphia Development Corporation (CPDC) and Center City District Foundation (CCDF) work together to enhance the vitality and competitiveness of Philadelphia's downtown. In 1991 the business leadership organization CPDC created the CCD business improvement district to deliver daily services with the goal of making Center City clean and safe. This helped transform Center City into a vibrant 24-hour downtown, attractive to businesses, residents, students, shoppers and tourists. In addition, the CCD is responsible for the management of Dilworth, Sister Cities, John F. Collins and Cret Parks, four extraordinary public spaces in the heart of Center City. CCDF, the charitable affiliate of the CCD, was launched in 2016 to support the next generation of public space improvements in Center City Philadelphia.

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