Philadelphia showed up and showed OUT for the world. 🇺🇸 FIFA Fan Fest at Lemon Hill? Pure magic. This city still has it. USA! USA! USA! #Philadelphia #WorldCup26

A nightclub in Houston became a grocery store. Robert Thomas saw a gap and built the answer. Food access is economic development: jobs, suppliers, local wealth. What underused space near you could become the next community asset? #FoodAccess

18 years of serious work. Dr. Mandy Manna just received Pennsylvania's Governor's Award for Excellence. She's earned every bit of it. Proud to work alongside her. #Leadership #Pennsylvania

Meet Solomon. He owns a produce business and sells fresh fruit and vegetables right in the middle of Philadelphia's food deserts. Not because of a grant or a task force. Because that's where the customers are. Imagine if we scaled an army of Solomons. #FoodAccess #FoodJustice #Philadelphia

Vertical farming lost billions and got written off as a bad idea. It was never the idea. It was the energy math. AI and efficiency gains have now cut indoor farm energy use up to 40%. Bad timing, not a bad concept. (Source: Mordor Intelligence) #CEA #UrbanAgriculture

In 1995, South Korea recycled 2% of its food waste. Today it recycles more than 95%. Not through apps. Not through guilt. Through law. A 2005 landfill ban, mandatory composting since 2013, about $6 a month per household. The U.S. has no national food waste law. #FoodSystems #FoodWaste

Five years ago, Tiara Brown stopped talking about her dream and started a real business. This year she celebrated five years, and created Build the Table to teach other entrepreneurs. Five years is not luck. It is perseverance and grit. Congratulations, Tiara, and please support Daily Blessings.

Live music in a Philly restaurant looks like ambiance. The data says infrastructure. The city put $1M into Weeknights Live. Its own study: the music industry drives $6.1B in impact, 31,000 jobs, $1.4B in wages. A paid band on a slow Tuesday is foot traffic for a block. #Philadelphia #LocalEconomy

Philadelphia led every World Cup host city in hospitality hiring this spring. Up 83%. The same hoteliers are calling the tournament a "non-event." Both true. A surge that resets to zero on July 20 was never infrastructure. It was a season. #WorldCup2026 #Philly #LocalEconomy

This Friday, North Broad Street becomes economic development you can walk through. Music & Morsels brings 25 DJs, food, and art to the corridor, and puts real dollars into the hands of local businesses. Hand-to-hand economic development, in real life. #Philadelphia #NorthBroad #SmallBusiness

Heard new Drexel President Antonio Merlo in conversation with Brian Tierney today. The frame that stayed with me: students should not have to choose between learning and doing. With World Cup 2026 and America 250 ahead, that mindset matters for Philadelphia. #Philadelphia #Drexel #HigherEducation

Last week at the Economy League of Greater Philadelphia, I heard from Penn Medicine CEO Kevin Mahoney at the historic Pennsylvania Hospital. Healthcare is bigger than healthcare. Kevin gets that. When Penn succeeds, Philadelphia succeeds. #Philadelphia #PennMedicine #Leadership

Jamaaladeen Tacuma at SOUTH last week. Tyshawn Sorey. Yesseh Ali. Key Hutch. Yoichi Uzeki. Masters at the height of their powers. This wasn't a concert. It was a declaration. Philadelphia still has it. #PhillyJazz #LiveJazz #Jazz

Philadelphia, this Saturday: The Wine Cup takes over Navy Yard. Wine, live music, and 40+ local vendors celebrating small business and culture. GA tickets are moving fast. I'll be there. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wine-cup-2026-tickets-1978952269510?aff=oddtdtcreator

When FIFA comes to town, the whole city moves. Roads repaved. Permits expedited. Agencies aligned. Almost overnight. Government can move fast when the priority is clear. What if hunger got that same energy?

Philadelphia has an active Food Truck RFP for city parks. Pre-proposal briefing is TONIGHT at 6:30 PM ET on Zoom. No registration needed. This is a real business opportunity. Get in the room. Join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89215600421?pwd=UjO5JWU8wOx957K4I3cpxpgbox7EnM.1

Philadelphia. World Cup 2026. $770M. 500,000 visitors. 6 matches. 6 billion people worldwide are expected to follow this tournament. For most of the planet, this is the biggest thing happening right now. For six matches, those eyes land here. Is the local economy ready? #WorldCup2026 #Philadelphia

Every year, I go. Every year, I leave inspired. A little girl started a lemonade stand. That act grew into something extraordinary. Millions raised. Research funded. Lives saved. That is legacy. Jay and Liz Scott, thank you. #AlexsLemonadeStand #Philadelphia

Philadelphia: when was the last time an event combined art, cocktails, advocacy, and live goats? Tonight I'm proud to be on the Host Committee for A Gathering of Goats at Crane Arts. Get tickets: https://www.inliquid.org/inliquid-special-events/gathering-of-goats #GatheringOfGoats #PhillyArts

One American dies from heart disease every 33 seconds. It is the leading cause of death in this country. Most of it is diet-related. And in 1985, Philip Morris bought your grocery store. Same addiction scientists. Different product.

Love is hard enough to find. Nobody should have to fight for the right to love who they love on top of that. Happy Pride Month. We see you. We're with you. #PrideMonth #LoveIsLove

9:12 PM. Friday night. Broad & Chestnut. Dark windows. Empty lobbies. Philadelphia has the bones. The artists. The culture. What it needs now is coordination. #Philadelphia #AvenueOftheArts #Placemaking

Reports don't feed people. Meetings don't feed people. Panels don't feed people. Systems do. World Hunger Day is a reminder that awareness without infrastructure is just noise. Philadelphia needs results. #WorldHungerDay #FoodSystems

Today is World Hunger Day. Honestly... that makes me sad. Hundreds of thousands of Philadelphians are hungry. In one of the greatest food cities in America. That is unacceptable. We can do better. We have to. #WorldHungerDay #Philadelphia #EndHunger

When a city decides to show up, this is what it looks like. An afternoon at the Philly Wine Fest at the Philadelphia Zoo. Great wine. Great people. Perfect weather. The kind of experience that makes people proud to call Philly home. #PhillyWineFest

Most people forget what Memorial Day is actually about. Not the weekend off. Not the cookout. Not the shore. Freedom is so woven into American life that we forget it was paid for in blood. Take a moment today. #MemorialDay #NeverForget

Up to $200M in Pennsylvania specialty crops. Gone. One spring event. We absorbed it. This time. Because it was limited to orchards. What happens when the next climate event is not limited? CEA is not a backup plan. It is infrastructure. #CEA #FoodSecurity #FoodSystems

Ward 8, D.C. 75,000+ residents. Fewer than 3 full-service grocery stores. Marion Barry Avenue Market is not just a grocery store. It is a food hub, workforce engine, gathering space, and development strategy all in one. That is food as infrastructure. #FoodSystems

27 people on a Friday night for live blues in Philadelphia. It was free. 4 million people in the tri-state area. Zero dollars to get in. Not a venue failure. Not a band failure. A system failure. What are we doing?

Walked out of today's event still thinking. Philadelphia doesn't lack intelligence or passion. It lacks execution. The answers are already in the room. Time to act on them. #Philadelphia #EconomicDevelopment

Some rooms don't need velvet ropes to feel important. Underground Arts proved it Friday night. Corrosion of Conformity, Whores., and Crobot. Concrete walls. 650 people. Pure live music. This is why Philadelphia remains a great music city.

230 people. $270K raised. $50K past the goal. Broad Street Love's Be Our Guest showed what Philadelphia does when it decides to show up for its neighbors. Community in action. #Philadelphia #BroadStreetLove

Carol Riddick and Gerald Veasley performing Nina Simone at SOUTH last night was not a gig. It was a masterclass. Legacy, soul, and Black music genius in one room. Philadelphia is lucky to witness nights like this. #PhillyJazz #NinaSimone

A room full of people showing up for each other. Jazz in the background. Hope in the air. That is Philadelphia at its best. #VoicesOfHope #Philadelphia

Nine times out of ten, what separates a neighborhood that works from one that struggles is leadership. Vision. Coordination. Trust. North Broad is living proof of what that looks like in practice. Huge respect to Shalimar Thomas and the whole team. #Philadelphia #NorthBroad

Rooms full of entrepreneurs, investors, builders, dreamers. People actually creating jobs and ownership here. This is how cities change. Not through speeches... but through putting the right people together. More of this, Philadelphia.

A 48-foot, solar-powered grocery store is rolling through Los Angeles right now. Not a gimmick. A grocery store. Built by two women. Funded by a community. Powered by conviction. Philly, whatcha think? #FoodAccess #FoodJustice #Philadelphia

Real food. Real room. Real music. Twisted Tail brunch checked every box. Then Randy Lippincott stepped up and made the whole room mean something more. A bluesman's bluesman. No gimmicks. Just soul. Philadelphia, more of this.

Found myself at Char and Stave and stayed for Deb Callahan. No gimmicks. No shortcuts. Just that raw, lived-in blues that reminds you what the music is actually for. Philly has the talent. We just need the room. #PhillyBlues #DebCallahan #ChestnutHill

Something is taking shape in Philadelphia's food system. Grow it here. Sell it here. Keep the dollars here. LocalDutch is building the infrastructure this city has needed for years. https://www.linkedin.com/company/localdutch #Philadelphia #FoodSystems #CEA

GPLEX 2026 is coming home to Philadelphia. October 14-17. 21 years. 1,200+ alumni across every sector. This is not just a conference. It is civic infrastructure. Apply: https://form.typeform.com/to/WLy3IzOM #GPLEX2026 #Philadelphia

Great food. Real purpose. Both at once. Talula's Garden for Dining Out For Life. Farm-to-table excellence in service of a cause that matters. The walk through Washington Square Park after made it feel even more like Philly at its best.

The Fairmount Arts Crawl is not just an event. It is economic development. Cultural preservation. Community building. All on one street in one afternoon. One artist who stopped me in my tracks: Sarrah Payne. sarrahpayne.com Philly is culture. Full stop.

Two stops. One week. Both reminded me what building looks like. Sat in on the Urban League's BRAP. Entrepreneurs. Capital. Community. The real work. Then Pleasure Platters. Kindle and her team showed me what hospitality done right actually feels like. Philly is building.

Philly's live music scene put its thing down again. PhilaMOCA. Stinking Lizaveta. A stacked bill. WKDU behind it all doing what culture builders are actually supposed to do. Raw, weird, unfiltered, and ours. #PhilaMOCA #WKDU #StinkingLizaveta #PhillyMusic

The Germantown Jazz Festival just showed Philadelphia what is possible. Culture, community, and intention in one place... delivering. Respect to Khadijah Renee, Terell Stafford, and Settlement Music School. Now let's scale it citywide. germantownjazzfestival.com #GermantownJazzFestival

Volunteered alongside AU alumni at Cradles to Crayons in Philadelphia today Sorting donations. Packing essentials. Preparing orders for 70,000+ children who count on this organization every year No ego Just work. And a reminder of what purpose actually feels like cradlestocrayons.org/philadelphia

Eraserhood Fest 2026 is back this Friday. Free. Self-funded. Grassroots. Artists, live music, vendors, and a community that shows up for itself. May 1 | 5 to 11PM | Callowhill, Philadelphia This is what a living city looks like. #EraserhoodFest #Philadelphia

Velvet Wednesdays season finale at The Velvet Whip. Eric Wortham. Zeek. Laurin Talese. The band was locked. The vocals were effortless. The solos were borderline disrespectful. The crowd leaned in. Nobody looked at their phones. That's how you know.

Philadelphia. April 30. International Jazz Day. A room full of people who care about the artists who built this city's sound. The Mini Q's. Live auction. Jazz Bridge fundraiser at SOUTH.