Black-Owned
June 29, 2020
Support Black-Owned Businesses
PIDC is proud to continuously support our diverse businesses, clients, partners, neighborhoods, and communities. Here are a few of our awesome PIDC clients that are open for business and also black-owned. Join us in supporting Philadelphia businesses by shopping for local products and services from technology, healthcare, construction, hospitality, marketing, real estate, creative industries, and
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June 29, 2020
Benefits Data Trust
[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” custom_class=” admin_preview_bg=”] Benefits Data Trust (BDT) was founded by Warren Kantor in 2005 as a response to a challenging and common experience – confusion and frustration faced when applying for public benefits. As he sat down with his widowed mother to help her complete a lengthy application for
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June 29, 2020
Racism, Equality, & Restarting our Economy
In the past few weeks, millions of people have raised a massive collective response to the ongoing issues of unequal justice and racism. PIDC stands in solidarity against racism, bigotry, and violence in any form. It is an overwhelming and extremely challenging period in our country and in our city, with both a global public
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June 2, 2020
A Message from PIDC About Current Events
To our PIDC clients, partners, and friends, In the past few days, millions of people have raised a massive collective response to the ongoing issues of unequal justice and racism sparked by the recent killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless others over years of injustice. At PIDC, we are keenly aware
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May 28, 2020
PIDC Welcomes a New Chairperson & New Board Members
[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” custom_class=” admin_preview_bg=”] Sal Patti PIDC and PIDC Community Capital Chairperson We are thrilled to announce that longtime PIDC Board of Directors and Executive Committee member, Salvatore J. Patti, has been elected by the Board to serve as the new PIDC and PIDC Community Capital chairperson. He has also
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May 28, 2020
PIDC HONORS LONGTIME CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF PIDC, M. WALTER D’ALESSIO, AS HE RETIRES
After 48 years of service to PIDC, M. Walter D’Alessio retired and chaired his last Board of PIDC meeting on April 21. Read our full Board Resolution here. You Can’t Say “PIDC” Without “WALT” Walt arrived in Philadelphia in 1960, beginning an unprecedented 60 year career in planning, developing, financing, and managing major economic development
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May 28, 2020
Walt D’Alessio: A Legacy of Impact in Philadelphia
By William Kenny It’s difficult to imagine a Philadelphia without Walt D’Alessio, a farmer’s son from rural Butler County, Pennsylvania, who ventured east in 1960 for an American Institute of Planners convention and has called the City of Brotherly Love home ever since. Had D’Alessio — the former CEO and longtime chairman of the city’s
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May 28, 2020
Walter D’Alessio: Leadership Personified
By Joan Fuchsman What qualities comprise a leader? Innovative thinking? Wisdom? Generosity? Kindness? Upon hearing from former chairs of the Council for Urban Economic Development (CUED), now called the International Economic Development Council (IEDC), you quickly realize that Walter D’Alessio is the embodiment of leadership. The International Economic Development Council is the membership organization for
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May 28, 2020
Walt D’Alessio: Influential Leadership in Urban Economic Development
By Kenneth Dobson WALT D’ALESSIO brought a new dimension of leadership to IEDC through his professional private-sector business approach to economic development. He was a brilliant no-nonsense, transactional economic development mind, quick wit, great sense of humor, and wise counselor in matters of business, politics, socioeconomics, and urban economic development problem-solving ingenuity. Where other great
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May 27, 2020
Your Outsourced CFO
[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” custom_class=” admin_preview_bg=”] During the current pandemic, financial peace of mind is what many business owners seek. Your Outsourced CFO is a partner in financial process and strategy, allowing CEOs and their team to progress from financial uncertainty to ultimate clarity. Through a long-term partnership with businesses, Your Outsourced
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May 27, 2020
Congratulations Class of 2020!
[av_image src=’https://pidcphilablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/pidc-congrats-class-2020-1100×430-1.jpg’ attachment=’8490′ attachment_size=’full’ align=’center’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ animation=’no-animation’ custom_class=” admin_preview_bg=”][/av_image] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” custom_class=” admin_preview_bg=”] PIDC would like to congratulate our 2020 interns on their recent graduation. These talented interns joined PIDC to learn and assist us in driving growth to every corner
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May 27, 2020
NAWBO Helps Women-Owned Businesses Succeed
[av_horizontal_gallery ids=’8484,8479,8478,8480,8482,8483′ height=’25’ size=’large’ links=’active’ lightbox_text=’no_text’ link_dest=” gap=’large’ active=’enlarge’ initial=” control_layout=’av-control-default’ id=” custom_class=”] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” custom_class=” admin_preview_bg=”] As one of the largest and leading chapters in the country, NAWBO (National Association of Women Business Owners) Philadelphia Chapter has a key program that is designed to increase the growth and profitability
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May 14, 2020
City & PIDC announce COVID-19 Small Business Relief Fund recipients
City of Philadelphia and PIDC Announce Awards from the Philadelphia COVID-19 Small Business Relief Fund Over 2,000 businesses receive a total of $13.3 million PHILADELPHIA — The City of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC) today announced that a total of 2,083 small businesses have been selected to receive $13.3 million from the
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April 27, 2020
A Message from Our President About COVID-19
[av_one_full first min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ padding=’0px’ border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ background_color=” src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=”] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” custom_class=” admin_preview_bg=”] Like the entrepreneurs, business and nonprofit leaders, and members of our community who started this year with a vision for what they hoped to accomplish and contribute
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April 27, 2020
Eatible Delights Catering
[av_image src=’https://pidcphilablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/eatible-delights-spread-1000×400-1.jpg’ attachment=’8324′ attachment_size=’full’ align=’center’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ animation=’no-animation’ custom_class=” admin_preview_bg=”][/av_image] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” custom_class=” admin_preview_bg=”] Whether you’re in need of catering for a business luncheon, corporate banquet, wedding, repast service, dinner party, corporate event, social gathering, or themed event, Eatible Delights Catering has
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April 27, 2020
Philadelphia Navy Yard wins ACEC Diamond Award
[av_image src=’https://pidcphilablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Navyyard-ACEC-award-Directional-Drill-Panorama-1473×333-1.jpg’ attachment=’8257′ attachment_size=’full’ align=’center’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ animation=’no-animation’ custom_class=” admin_preview_bg=”][/av_image] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” custom_class=” admin_preview_bg=”] The American Council of Engineering Companies Pennsylvania (ACEC/PA) recently awarded Philadelphia Navy Yard with a Diamond Award in recognition of its Power Capacity Enhancements project.The competition recognizes engineering
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April 27, 2020
Introduction to C-PACE
[av_horizontal_gallery ids=’8250,8251′ height=’35’ size=’large’ links=’active’ lightbox_text=’no_text’ link_dest=” gap=’large’ active=’enlarge’ initial=” control_layout=’av-control-default’ id=” custom_class=”] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” custom_class=” admin_preview_bg=”] In February, PIDC hosted Green Building United, Sustainable Business Network, and Philadelphia Energy Authority for an overview of the recently-launched Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) Program in Philadelphia. The Commercial Property-Assessed Clean
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April 27, 2020
Applications are Open for the 2020 PIDC-D’Alessio Scholarship for Urban Development
[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” custom_class=” admin_preview_bg=”] PIDC is excited to announce the second round of the PIDC-D’Alessio Scholarship for Urban Development. The scholarship was launched in 2019 to support graduate students at Philadelphia schools seeking to pursue a career in urban development and finance. The scholarship was created by PIDC in recognition
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