(The Center Square) – Loop Alliance President Michael Edwards is boldly shouting from the rooftops after a new “State of the Loop” quarterly report outlines how pedestrian activity on State Street during workweek hours is now back at pre-pandemic levels while weekend foot traffic is far outpacing 2019 numbers.

“People are coming back,” Edwards told The Center Square. “We’ve been recording key data points since the beginning of the pandemic to try to give our stakeholders, property owners, businesses and City Hall hard data on how The Loop is performing. They’re coming down into the evening and on weekends because as people get a little tired of working from home all week, they’re looking for something else to do.”