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Originally Posted by boxbot
I will be surprised if this gets built - especially now that they've opened up gambling at airports and truck stops in their infinite wisdom. I was at Atlantic City recently and the place is a ghost town. PA gambling oversaturated the NJ market and now it's oversaturating the PA market. 4 casinos within 20 minutes of Center City is enough, isn't it?
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This. Atlantic City is desperate, and it needs to reinvent itself now, and everyone else isn't making it any easier. Plus, look at what happened when the AC casino market was oversaturated. There are already too many casinos in the area, we don't need any more.
Also, it's stupid that it's illegal to bet on sports in New Jersey. They should have made that legal when places like Bally's and the Trump Taj Mahal were coming up.
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Originally Posted by jsbrook
Although apartment supply seems to be peaking, they should eventually put some housing around here. You are seeing apartments for young people spring up around baseball stadiums throughout the country and they are selling well. D.C., Atlanta, Chicago has always had it. D.C. is a bit off the beaten track and prime D.C. neighborhoods, but it's still doing well.
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I can see this. The area east of the Sports Complex is mostly old industrial buildings that really do look bad. Even the building across from the Linc looks like it could go. And with the Navy Yard as an up-and-coming area, this could too become popular.
Although personally, I wish the Phils had built on Spring Garden like they wanted to and the Linc had 10,000 more seats, but that's neither here nor there.