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Originally Posted by TonyTone
Hello everyone! @jones looks like you have a new buddy because I also love Wilmington & Philly & Chester & etc.
But one thing you must understand, Philly has been a big city hub for 100+ years. Wilmington is now just getting on the train & from the pervious post Ive read you are speaking in passion & good heart.
Wilmington is growing well, I look at all projects & plans just as you have & many others have.
Before Wilmington can attract bigger players certain things have to happen for example here are some things that have to happen or are currently in progress
-Bus station be built /currently under construction
-Roads /Highways updated /Currently under construction or pending
-City Center being rebuilt /Currently under construction
-Neighborhoods being rebuilt aka gentrification /Currently being planned/ built
-Airport / currently being remodeled & services are planned. Now the only reason I believe the airport is coming back after 5 years is because Delaware & Wilmington as a whole is growing & the 301 finally being completed is giving life to connecting us with down south & moving traffic better. This means someone could easily go from middletown to ILG in 30 minutes compared to a Hour on local roads.
-Points of interest/ Wilmington has the riverfront which is starting to pop & look excellent, A bridge being built to connect with 13, which also has 495 0.5 miles down the street is a big WOO. Stadium & hopefully more venues will come to that side of the riverfront. Also southbridge being brought back to life & a big watershed park will also help tremendously.
The reason why Philly & other cities do great is because they have attractions & an atmosphere. Yes Wilmington has one but for a very long time it was very small & limited to 4PM.
Thats what causes people to go to philly instead of Wilmington, people want something to do & Wilmington didnt have that for a long time. They are also 10 years late to the party but its ok, because they are picking up speed.
Give it 5-10 more years bro & Wilmington will be the new talk of the town. I can already see at night the city is looking great & it will get better.
Also you cant disrespect Philly & its getting cleaner. But remember Philly is home of Gritty for a reason.
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I agree with a lot of your points, but what makes you say that highways need to be updated? I don't feel like I-95 or I-495 are bad highways, in fact, I feel like they are far better than in most other states that have roads with potholes that shake your car every 2 seconds.
As far as the airport goes, you are correct. Frontier executive Daniel Shurz said that Frontier decided to return to Wilmington because they saw through data that a growing amount of Delawareans were flying out of the Northeast Corridor area and so they felt that there was more demand for flights out of Wilmington Airport. What I don't understand is why Frontier is only flying to Orlando to start with. Daniel Shurz said that they choose to only fly out of Orlando this time around and not the rest of the 7 destinations they used to fly out of Wilmington because they think that starting small will be better. They did say though that if the Orlando route becomes profitable enough (85% full planes), then they would add routes to other destinations around Fall 2020 (maybe sooner). I feel like this will be easily achievable because Frontiers older flights out of Wilmington to Orlando were on average 80-90% full. Shurz did say though that Frontier is hopefully "here to stay" and that they don't restart service thinking they will pull out a few years later. He just claims that their strategy of very slowly adding routes will be a better idea.
I'm also excited to see what the expansions are like for Wilmington Airport. These are the only pictures I could find online:
Also, I don't disrespect Philly. I was just joking with the nickname. I think Philly is a great city.
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