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Originally Posted by cardeza
agreed. Their whole attitude is just a bit arrogant- basically they are saying since market east is struggling the obvious and only answer is their stadium and we should be thankful they are offering to build one- of course they don't get into how this will drive up valuation on sixers and make them tons of money. This whole "we really care about Philly and saving market east" shtick is a little phony.
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No. The Market East thing is just dressing on their actual motivation: which is they want to be downtown no matter what so figure it out.
And I concur with it.
The older I get the less patience I have with NIMBYs. Chinatown would have been opposed to this no matter whether the negotiations happened in advance or after.
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Originally Posted by Frontst17
Personally I love going to games I go to as many as possible. But living a block or two from the stadium would suck I wouldn’t want to live there. It absolutely has to be done right.
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It's an arena not a stadium. It's 18,000 people per event not 60,000. Big difference and semantics matter.
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Originally Posted by Frontst17
The latter option terrifies what is a vibrant but fragile community.
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What makes it "fragile"? Because they said so?
Philadelphia's Chinese community is healthier and more vibrant than it has ever been. Let's stop with the hyperbole.
The irony is of course, Chinatown has jumped 676 and inserts itself into development decisions and discussions even where it should have no say (Callowhill/Loft District). So I don't really have any patience for framing them as the victim or David.