Kids in Center City

Philadelphia's Center City District continues to innovate when it comes to retaining the young talent the city has worked so hard to attract by making the core appealing to that same talent once they couple and have kids.  Today the Center City District launched a new website, KidsinCenterCity.com, which serves as an online hub for information for parents about neighborhood and recreational activities, summer camps, museums, doctors, retailers, exhibits, sports leagues, after-school classes and many more useful listings. 

The site comes in response to the growing number of familes with kids living in the center city,

An earlier study by CEOs for Cities, City Talent: How to Keep Young Professionals (and their kids) in Cities, looked at this growing trend and found that parents from both urban and suburban neighborhoods expressed three key concerns of safety, space and schools, developing concepts to counter them through density, public space and using the city as a classroom. Download it here.

Philadelphia appears to be taking the lead in this innovation space. Here's hoping other cities take notice.

  

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