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Originally Posted by TonyTone
People do realize Chinatown never went North of Vine St even before 676 right? it was a whole other neighborhood.
Do people also realize that if 10 years of a Tax Abatement could only get a handful of projects done in Chinatown why would an Arena 2 blocks on Market St do that as well?
-Multiple Rail Lines didn't gentrify Chinatown
-A Multi block convention Center didn't gentrify Chinatown
-New development on Market St didn't gentrify Chinatown
-And a Rehabbed mall didn't Gentrify Chinatown
Also I Believe from the renders ground-floor store fronts will be available for lease so it 100% will be more active in the day and night then the gallery which has no street level function except for a few store and mall entrances.
The arena would 100% be better on Market St then the rectangle block building.
I'm all for criticism about projects but lets have all our facts together.
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All very good points. When you flip the script, none of the gentrification in Center City in the history of gentrification has gentrified Chinatown so let's stop talking about it.