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Originally Posted by mcgrath618
I would be very interested to see what would happen in the event that the Sixers do end up moving into Center City. A central location for a stadium would greatly alter the urban fabric wherever it goes. Where would it go? How big would it be? Would it be built in tandem with another development, like uCity Square or Schuylkill Yards? How would people get to/from the stadium?
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My friend is not connected in any way to the building of the arena so he's not plugged into most of the specifics you mention if they are even decided yet which is a big if. But he's high enough up in another department that he is aware that the general plan is a downtown arena.
A Basketball arena is not a stadium. It would be a big impact in terms of the influx of around 20000 people going in and out of a building regularly at night. But it wouldn't necessarily have a huge impact on the urban fabric in the sense that it's small enough to fit on plenty of existing large blocks so it's not like they'd need to close streets or anything like that. Additionally, it's easy to line the street side with retail, to further enmesh it in its surroundings.