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To support local restaurants, CCD is providing a new, evening outdoor dining experience adjacent to Dilworth Park’s fountains, with live music and cocktails to-go for those who purchase take-out from nearby restaurants.
As autumn approaches, Center City District prepares to welcome back Dilworth Park’s annual fall festival with entertainment for guests of all ages. Beginning Friday, October 7 through Sunday, October 9, Harvest Weekend will feature live music, seasonal food and beverages and activities for families. Attendance is free for everyone.
One of Philadelphia’s most eagerly awaited foodie traditions returns January 14-26, 2018 with over 120 participants offering an exciting and delicious variety of dishes for a great price.
CCD is marking its 30th year of enhancing the vitality of downtown Philadelphia as a thriving 24-hour environment and a great place to live and work.
After decades of job loss, Philadelphia has enjoyed nine straight years of job growth that accelerated in 2014. Despite the recent upturn however, the city has rebounded more slowly than most peer cities.
Center City’s commercial core is experiencing a sustained process of recovery, with new businesses opening and existing retailers moving to new, often larger locations, according to the just-released CCD/CPDC Center City Retail Update. In the first quarter of 2022, taxable retail sales in the core of Center City reached 94% of 2019 levels and restaurant sales reached 74% of 2019 levels.
Center City District offers ice skating, outdoor dining and cold weather fun through February 2022! Beginning this November, visitors of all ages can enjoy a dramatic seasonal transformation as fountains are replaced by the Rothman Orthopaedics Ice Rink and reindeer topiaries take up winter residence on the Greenfield Lawn. In addition, a full lineup of free entertainment is planned, including the Deck the Hall Light Show, the Made in Philadelphia Holiday Market and Rothman Orthopaedics Cabin.
Recovery is progressing by nearly all measures: employment, hotel occupancy, retail and restaurant sales, transit ridership, pedestrian volumes and city tax collections are all up. Job recovery is slow but steady and most significantly, Philadelphia’s unemployment rate fell in October, to the lowest point since 1990.