By the Numbers
By the Numbers
- Over 1 million square feet of sellable space
- 528,000 Total contiguous exhibit hall space
- 7 Exhibit halls totaling 679,000 square feet of exhibit space
- 2 Ballrooms (32,000 square feet and 55,400 square feet)
- 79 Meeting Rooms
- 34,960 Square foot Grand Hall
- 23,400 Square foot Atrium overlooking the Avenue of the Arts
- 45 Loading Docks
- 3,936 Hotel Rooms within a four-minute walk from the Center
- 6,402 Hotel Rooms within a ten-minute walk
- 8,924 Hotel Rooms within a 15-minute walk
- 10,500 Hotel Rooms in Center City
- 30,000 Hotel rooms in the region
- Steps from America's Most Historic Square Mile
- 1,526,006 Local population
- 2nd Largest city on the East Coast
- 3rd Most populous downtown in the United States
- 22 Theaters, music, sports and recreation venues
- 882 Stores and boutiques
- 89 Colleges and hospitals
- 605 Restaurants and nightlife locations
- Philadelphia's extensive life sciences community includes five medical schools, 22 nursing schools, two dental schools, two colleges of pharmacy, a veterinary school, a school of optometry, a podiatry school, almost 100 hospitals, and an equal number of "hi-tech," biomedical, and pharmaceutical companies
- The area's large concentration of medical schools and hospitals ranked second in the country, producing one of every five physicians in the United States
- Philadelphia is within two hours of 80 percent of the world's major pharmaceutical firms, including GlaxoSmithKline, Bristol Meyers, Squibb, Johnson and Johnson, AstraZeneca and DuPont
- Founded in 1751, Pennsylvania Hospital was the first hospital in the United States and is the site of the country's first medical library
- The University of Pennsylvania Medical School was the first medical school in the United States (1765)
- The University of the Sciences founded in 1821, as the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, was the first college of pharmacy in the Unites States.
- Wills Eye Hospital was the first hospital in the Western hemisphere devoted to the eye (1832)
- The Medical College of Pennsylvania was the first women's medical school in the world (1850)
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia was the first children's hospital in the United States (1855)
- Temple University Dental School is the second oldest in the United States (1863)
- The School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania is the second oldest in the United States (1884)
- Sixty percent of all pharmacology dollars spent in the U.S. are spent within 100 miles of Philadelphia
- 18th Busiest airport in the world, Philadelphia International Airport, serves more than 31 million travelers a year from more than 120 cities worldwide
- 12th Most internationally visited city in the nation (the fastest growing)
- 1,400 Daily flights at Philadelphia International Airport
- Philadelphia is an easy drive from 40 percent of the U.S. population
- 30th Street Station is a major North & South and East & West Hub for Amtrak including high speed service along the Northeast Corridor
- 2 Subway lines
- 7 Regional Rail lines
- 15 Bus routes within walking distance