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Center City’s retailers, restaurants and street-level service business are rebounding from the pandemic, supported by the third-largest downtown residential population in the U.S. and by returning volumes of city and regional shoppers, college students, tourists and convention attendees and a steadily rising number of office workers.
Dilworth Park is kicking off a full schedule of events including fitness classes, cocktails, barbeque, crafts, live music, movie nights – all summer long, there’s something for everyone!
Center City District/Central Philadelphia Development Corp. report examines Philadelphia’s signs of recovery, and remaining challenges, after two years of profound disruption.
CCD welcomes the arrival of autumn with a full lineup of free-to-attend programs starting in September at parks and public spaces across Center City, including Dilworth Park’s 10th anniversary, a hay maze and events for office workers.
As Philadelphians welcome a new year, and a new decade, with excitement, Dilworth Park continues to provide free to low-cost fun to visitors of all ages. Winter events and amenities will remain in operation through February 23.
For the last two decades, Greater Center City has been the fastest growing residential section of both Philadelphia and the entire region. After a temporary dip in population, the number of downtown residents on sidewalks in Center City had rebounded to 2019 levels by the end of 2021. Rents and home sale prices held up and the number of newly-permitted residential units in both Center City and citywide reached the highest point in decades in 2021.