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From sidewalk cafés and well-managed parks to seasonal pop-up gardens and reclaimed office plazas, outdoor seating in Center City continues to expand and now numbers 428 locations with 6,743 seats from Vine Street to South Street, river to river, according to a new report from the Center City District/Central Philadelphia Development Corporation.
Announcing a new campaign to promote the unique shopping experience found only in Center City Philadelphia.
CCD continues to provide exciting seasonal amenities at Dilworth Park into the New Year, including the Rothman Orthopaedics Ice Rink and Cabin and the Wintergarden.
Center City’s modern office district is becoming more residential with the construction of new high-rise developments. New restaurants and retailers are opening to serve the district’s growing population.
On December 18, 2018, CPDC hosted a panel discussion with business leaders and asked them to highlight both the opportunities for more dynamic job growth in 2019 and the challenges and hurdles that Philadelphia needs to overcome to capitalize on these opportunities.
This week, Dilworth Park again begins its transformation for winter festivities. With the weather turning cool, the park’s fountains were turned off for the season on October 12.
SEPTA is working day and night to keep their riders and staff safe and healthy, whether they’re taking Regional Rail downtown or making their way around town on our subways, buses or trolleys.
This new CCD/CPDC report documents that in September 2022 overall pedestrian volumes reached 75% of pre-pandemic levels compared to September 2019, with residents, shoppers and visitors at significantly higher levels. These findings are from both CCD’s pedestrian counters at multiple locations downtown and from anonymized cell phone data.
Citywide employment has fully rebounded from the spring 2020 shutdown with 2.4% more jobs in October 2023 than in February 2020. But there is a difference between the return of workers to payrolls and the return of full vitality to Center City. The report suggests ways to accelerate the job growth and business formation rates in Philadelphia.