{"id":124919,"date":"2026-02-27T08:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T08:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/124919\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T08:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T08:22:08","slug":"philadelphia-prepared-to-spend-big-for-america-250-festivities-report-shows-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/124919\/","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":2,"featured_media":124920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[58510,29269,58511,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-124919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-birthday-celebration","tag-mural-arts","tag-neighborhood-beautification","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}