Streetlights
Since 1996, CCD has installed more than 2,800 15-foot-tall, pedestrian-scale lights throughout Center City to make sidewalks lighter, brighter and safer, and encouraging a vibrant nighttime scene. Additionally, CCD has installed hundreds more 30-foot-tall vehicular lights to illuminate downtown streets.
Avenue of the Arts
CCD has lit the façades of a dozen historic buildings along South Broad Street, allowing for programmed lighting effects ranging from subdued seasonal palettes to dynamic, sound-and-light special events. Philadelphia is the first American city to light multiple, privately-owned buildings this way in a coordinated manner.
Benjamin Franklin Parkway
CCD dramatically illuminated 20 works of art and the facades of eight landmark buildings along the parkway in a two-phase project during 2003 and 2004, including The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Free Library of Philadelphia, and Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, along with outdoor works of art including The Thinker (Auguste Rodin, 1929), Shakespeare Memorial (Alexander Stirling Calder, 1928), and Swann Memorial Fountain (Alexander Stirling Calder, 1924).
City Hall lighting
In 2004, CCD began illuminating portions of the monumental structure nightly from its base to the tip of the William Penn statue atop the tower—almost 550 feet in the air.
In 2007, the CCD illuminated the north, east and west portals of City Hall, and in 2015, CCD installed and illuminated four pairs of monumental new gates at City Hall’s four portals.
In 2024, CCD, in partnership with the City of Philadelphia, replaced the outdated façade lighting system with more energy efficient LED lighting.
