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This edition of the CCD and CPDC quarterly newsletter includes: CCD President, Paul R. Levy's cover essay, highlighting the importance of accelerating Center City's recovery; CCD 2022 Budget Details, Outreach & Public Safety, Introduces CPDC's new Executive Director, CCD/CPDC Reports and Spring & Summer in Center City.
Center City District Restaurant Week, the culinary event savored by savvy Philadelphia foodies, is returning September 23 through October 5, 2018 with more than 110 participating restaurants serving up an exciting and delicious variety of three-course dinners for only $35 per person and/or three-course lunches for $20 per person.
CCDF is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a $325,000 grant from the William Penn Foundation to enable the first phase of activation for Pulse, a site-specific public art created for Dilworth Park by internationally recognized sculptor Janet Echelman.
CCD, with support from Rittenhouse Row and the City of Philadelphia, plans to transform one of Philadelphia’s most popular shopping and dining destinations, 18th Street from Locust to Chestnut and Walnut Street from 15th to 19th, by temporarily closing streets to vehicular traffic.
The 75-page State of Center City, 2017 report has been released, utilizing the latest research, original reporting and analysis, plus charts and photos to present a downtown that has progressed a long way, but presents a few lingering challenges.
Center City continued to show promising signs of recovery throughout the summer months, buoyed by returning conventions and office workers and increasing numbers of pedestrians who are contributing to rising retail and restaurant sales, local tax revenue, new business openings and increases in convention travel and hotel occupancy.
Center City's retail occupancy rates, pedestrian volumes, retail sales and jobs are rising and approaching levels last seen in 2019, according to Center City Retail Update: July 2023, a new report released by the Center City District/Central Philadelphia Development Corporation.
This new CCD/CPDC report analyzes the housing sector recovery in Philadelphia. While the pandemic impaired many parts of Philadelphia’s economy, both Greater Center City and citywide housing markets showed extraordinary resilience in the last year, buoyed by historically low interest rates and continued interest in city living.
Project HOME and the CCD unveiled a new information campaign that is being deployed on transit shelters and counter cards in Center City, highlighting five Philadelphians previously living on the streets who chose a path out of homelessness and now seek to inspire others to do the same.