The Strength of SIPS

Center City District SIPS is back, and it’s not just bars and restaurants that benefit.

CCD SIPS Contest

Experience the Holiday Shopping Season in Center City

From pop-up shops and craft markets to an eclectic mix of contemporary retailers, and independent boutiques found only in Philadelphia; if it’s in, it’s in Center City this holiday season.

Ambassadors of Hope: Reducing Homelessness in Center City with Compassionate Outreach

Getting More Philadelphians Back to Work: Business Density and the Role of Black and Minority Owned Businesses

This report by CCD, CPDC examines disparities between the number of Black-owned and white-owned businesses in Philadelphia and compares them to four other East Coast cities

Summertime in Center City with CCD's Team

Center City District Foundation awarded grant from William Penn Foundation to bring Pulse at Dilworth Park to life

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.

Project HOME, CCD Partner on Campaign to End Homelessness

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.

Center City Digest, Fall 2016

Choose your narrative frame: Either good things take time; or it takes forever to get anything done in Philadelphia. The Viaduct Rail Park has been a long time coming.

The Center City District (CCD), Central Philadelphia Development Corporation (CPDC) and Center City District Foundation (CCDF) work together to enhance the vitality and competitiveness of Philadelphia's downtown. In 1991, the business leadership organization CPDC created the CCD business improvement district to deliver daily services with the goal of making Center City clean and safe. This helped transform Center City into a vibrant 24-hour downtown, attractive to businesses, residents, students, shoppers and tourists. In addition, the CCD is responsible for the management of Dilworth, Sister Cities, John F. Collins and Cret Parks, four extraordinary public spaces in the heart of Center City. CCDF, the charitable affiliate of the CCD, was launched in 2016 to support the next generation of public space improvements in Center City Philadelphia.