CENTER CITY DISTRICT FOUNDATION
660 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106 www.supportccdf.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: The Center City District Foundation was established as the charitable arm of the Center City District (CCD). Grants and contributions are used to initiate, test, and support public improvement initiatives of the CCD, support fundraising activities relating to parks managed by the CCD, raise funds for CCD's greening initiatives (Plant! Philadelphia), and to inform the public about how to reduce homelessness in Center City.

Dilworth Park: Dilworth Park, on the west side of Philadelphia's City Hall, was completely renovated and is now managed by the Center City District through a long-term lease with the City of Philadelphia. As Philadelphia's Center Square, it is designed as a high-quality gateway to public transit and as a civic place with on-going programming, amenities, and activities that benefit the public and support the mission of the park. The park is beautifully appointed with an interactive fountain, lush lawn and tree grove seating areas, which features a café. The fountain, open in the warmer months, transforms into an ice skating rink each winter. Festivals, live musical performances, outdoor movie screenings, and happy hour specials bring an audience to the park at all hours of the day and night. All park activities take place above a major transit hub. The underground hub has been improved as a new transit gateway, providing entrances to Broad Street and Market Street subways and the trolley lines.

Viaduct Rail Park Project - The Viaduct Railpark Project, including the completed Phase 1, and subsequent phases currently in the planning stages, is dedicated to the transformation of the defunct and blighted former Reading Railroad Viaduct into a public open green space for the use by workers, residents, and visitors to the Center City Philadelphia area. The transformation of the derelict 4.5-acre elevated Reading Railroad Viaduct in Philadelphia, running from 11th and Vine Streets to 9th and Fairmount with a western spur at Noble Street, into a public amenity and park will have a catalytic impact, creating both temporary and permanent jobs and stimulating new commercial and housing investment in an area immediately adjacent to Philadelphia's thriving and expanding downtown. The first phase of the project encompasses the renovation of a one quarter mile section running from 11th and Callowhill Streets to Broad and Noble Streets. Construction on the first phase of the project began in November 2016 and was completed and opened in June 2018.

Plant Philadelphia: The Center City District Foundation has the goal of planting 200 new trees in the central business district during the next two years through its initiative, Plant Center City. There are approximately 2,300 street trees within the Center City District's boundary; 700 of those trees were planted in the 1990s by the CCD, which continues to care for them. The goal of the Plant Center City program is to add 200 more and bring Center City's total to 2,500 trees. It costs $2,500 per tree - an average of either excavating a new trench and planting a new tree where none exist; or replacing a dead or damaged one; or maintaining CCD's current inventory of street trees. Center City District plants mature, hardy 2.5-inch caliper trees that initially stand 12 to 14 feet tall and can withstand harsh urban environments, both extreme heat and cold. Many of the variety of trees planted by CCD are native and include oak, cypress, sycamore and hornbeam. New trees are planted at the times of the year that ensure optimal growth - typically May and October.

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