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Originally Posted by eliasrapp98
If this is the proper place to discuss the casino thing, let me say this...
To ScreamShatters point about not enough things for the rich to do, let me say, that you are incredibly out of date.
Philly is booming unlike any other city in America today. Someone will build something better there. We don't have to settle like we did 5 years ago.
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I would never consider a casino something that caters to the rich. If they're rich enough to blow money at Barclay Prime, they're rich enough to gamble in Monte Carlo.
Definitely love your last statement.
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Originally Posted by Baconboy007
Read a great article for this thread. It's about the bill of goods Convention center companies sold us on why we need to spend more of our tax dollars on their products. I couldn't help but think of all that is going on in Philadelphia right now even though the article is about what is happening in DC. I hope things get better but if the markets that we are trying to steal conventions from are struggling then that might mean there's not enough business to be stole. I think the convention center should start taking advantage of the big open space that it has and invest in go-carts. 
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I think DC and Baltimore, and New York to a lesser extent, is exactly the convention market that Philadelphia is primed to steal. The relaxed work rules already make Philadelphia easier to deal with than DC and Baltimore, and New York was already more complicated than Philadelphia. NY just happened to have Manhattan on its side. So being that much closer to New York puts us even further ahead of DC and Baltimore. Not to mention, the PCC has absolutely one of the best convention center locations in the country. Considering two huge conventions who swore never to return to Philadelphia, are returning, and a hotel has already been proposed on the desolate north side of the center, things are going to change fast.