PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Prema Katari Gupta is only the second head of the 33-year-old Center City District.
She is the hand-picked successor of the organization's legendary founder, Paul Levy.
A second-generation Indian American, Gupta is bullish about the return to in-person work and says the state of Center City is strong, despite persistent perceptions that the downtown is now dangerous.
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Gupta says police data shows crime has decreased 18% in Center City from 2019.
She is leaning into what she says is and always will be CCD's core mission-clean and safe.
Gupta says it's time to stop talking about pandemic recovery and start looking to the future and creating the Center City that Philadelphia and the region needs.
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