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Old Posted Jul 26, 2009, 3:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Swinefeld View Post
But it's taking the place of parking lots as well and some of that parking is for the Linc and the Wachovia Center. Keep in mind that this is designed to make suburban visitors to the sports complex stay a lot longer and spend money in the city.
Yes, but you can easily condense all the necessary parking into a few gigantogarages clustered along the Schuylkill and 95 and open the rest of those surface lots to development, along with a shuttle between major city parking centers (also mostly garage-based)...a proposal I've long advocated.
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