Phila. Award honors Levy as a visionary

0 Comments | Philadelphia Daily News, May, 2006

TONIGHT, PAUL LEVY, president of the Center City District, will receive the Philadelphia Award.

The award, created 85 years ago by civic leader and philanthropist Edward Bok, honors a Philadelphia citizen who has done the most "to make the city and the region more prosperous, efficient and beautiful."

Past recipients include former University of Pennsylvania president Judith Rodin, Walter Annenberg, Sister Mary Scullion, Edmund Bacon, Ed Rendell and John Street.

Like those notables, Levy is a visionary who has helped change the face of the city in small and big ways. His management of CCD, a privately funded municipal authority, has helped it become a model for similar districts around the country. If you've seen City Hall lit up during the holidays, or the...