PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The lights are coming back on at the Wanamaker Building this holiday season.

Months after Macy's announced its departure from the historic Center City landmark, the iconic Wanamaker Christmas Light Show and Dickens Village will reopen on Black Friday, Nov. 28, 2025.

The return is thanks to a massive community effort that raised more than $500,000 to save the tradition.

"I was pretty sure, pretty confident that if we put out a call to save the light show and Dickens Village that people would step up and they did, they absolutely did," said Kathryn Ott Lovell, president and CEO of the Philadelphia Visitor's Center. "We thought the budget was going to be around $350,000; that was the goal that we set."

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