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Originally Posted by iheartphilly
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I thought Xfinity Live would help with the atmosphere. Plus, the Casino going down there is gonna help. So, the WFC is good where it's at, no?
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Xfinity Live helps, the casino will...at least be another attraction down there. The sports museum will as well.
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Originally Posted by allovertown
Sports complex gives an atmosphere alright, I just don't know if it's necessarily a great atmosphere for all purposes. Great as the atmosphere is, it's very much a white suburban atmosphere that is largely dependant on tailgating.
For the Eagles that works great, for the Sixers not so much. Also go to Fenway and you'll clearly see that atmosphere if not every great sporting event atmosphere is dependant on tailgating in a parking lot.
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I'm not sure I get what you mean by white suburban - is this because of the parking lots? Tailgating is great for the Eagles and it's just as great for the Phillies too. I'll give you that the Sixers and Flyers don't have the same atmosphere now, but that's because:
1. The weather isn't as nice as it is for Phillies games
2. The games aren't full day events into themselves like Eagles games
If they make deep playoff runs and the weather turns, the tailgates will come. The Winter Classic was a great outdoor atmosphere for the Flyers because the game was a full day event. I don't think you could call the subway ride down to stadiums suburban and that's definitely part of the experience. Can you explain what the atmosphere you're referring to is?
As for comparisons, let's stop with saying we can build something urban like Fenway, Wrigley or MSG. We can't replicate that without 100 years of organic neighborhood growth around the stadium (maybe we could do that in South Philly by 2118?) and we're not NYC. For a basketball/hockey arena, our comps are TD Bank in Boston and Verizon Center in DC, maybe the Dunk in Providence? None of those creates any sort of gameday atmosphere. I'm sure they do well, but we'd be losing something if the arena went elsewhere.