{"id":619667,"date":"2026-02-27T10:15:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/619667\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T10:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:15:17","slug":"philadelphia-prepared-to-spend-big-for-america-250-festivities-report-shows-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/619667\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia prepared to spend big for America 250 festivities, report shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">New figures released Thursday show Philadelphia is preparing to spend big for America&#8217;s 250th birthday celebration this July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to a report from the Philadelphia City Controller, the city has budgeted nearly $120 million for the festivities, which includes $70 million for police, fire and emergency management operations, $45 million for special events and $4.6 million for community projects, neighborhood beautification and Mural Arts programs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In addition, the city is investing another $500 million in upgrades at Philadelphia International Airport ahead of an expected surge in visitors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">City leaders say the celebration, combined with major events including the FIFA World Cup and the MLB All-Star Game, could bring significant employment opportunities and generate an estimated $1.5 billion to $2.5 billion in economic impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New figures released Thursday show Philadelphia is preparing to spend big for America&#8217;s 250th birthday celebration this July.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":619668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,56178,53850,265267,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-619667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-birthday-celebration","10":"tag-mural-arts","11":"tag-neighborhood-beautification","12":"tag-pa","13":"tag-pennsylvania","14":"tag-philadelphia","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116142075819796892","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}