Developers are breaking ground on skyscrapers. The gauzy visions of a prosperous and dynamic Center City that once seemed like pipe dreams have, in large part, become reality.Ĭenter City’s population is growing. The audience at this meeting of the Central Philadelphia Development Corp. “I saw with my own eyes,” he says, “the massive money and time being spent to make Philadelphia a retail center.” Philadelphians, he says, are fashion-savvy, creative and artistic: “They get it.” The executive vice president and co-owner of Century 21 department stores is explaining why a new Philadelphia location at 8th and Market is the logical next step for a chic discount chain that until now has stuck to New York and New Jersey. ![]() Photograph by Dick Swanson/The National ArchiveĮddie Gindi seems genuinely excited as he stands at the dais in the Union League. Children playing in the Art Museum fountains in August 1973.
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