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A new CCD/CPDC report, Center City Pedestrian Counts, November 2022, documents that pedestrian volumes in October 2022 in the commercial core reached 77% of the October 2019 level, showing steady growth throughout 2022. The rate of increase has been greatest in the commercial office district and the successful return of major conventions is clearly visible in the volume recorded by CCD sensors at 12th and Market Street.
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.
The Deck the Hall Light Show presented by Independence Blue Cross, with support from 6abc, will once again illuminate Dilworth Park this holiday season. This annual display of lights and music will run through January 1, 2020.
On July 28, 2022 CPDC hosted an in-person meeting on retail recovery with guest panelists Paige Jaffe, Managing Director, JLL, Jim Pearlstein, President, Peal Properties, John Usdan, CEO, Midwood Investment and Development and Jacob Cooper, Partner and Managing Director, MSC.
On May 14, 2020, CPDC hosted a virtual membership meeting. CCD President Paul R. Levy drew from the recently released annual report to highlight: the strengths that can help us in recovery, the challenges left unresolved before this crisis, how CCD has continued all on-street operations through and the new initiatives CCD is undertaking to build confidence in the public environment.