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Originally Posted by Londonee
I don't get some of your analogies. The Boston garden is built in their central core, attached to North Station? Sure Fenway has been built up and around over time but it's a 100+year old stadium basically immediately adjacent to one of their wealthiest and most urban 'hoods (Back Bay).
What arena in San Francisco are you talking about? Giants stadium is built in South Beach? It's always been incredibly central...
D.C.s main arena is right in downtown in Chinatown, like in the heart of the city, and the Nationals Park is about a 15 minute walk from Capitol Hill.
To my knowledge none of these "examples" demo'd a massive swath of city owned land - thousand of acres worth - replaced it with nothing but a massive sea of parking in all directions, isolated 4miles from the city core - and then plopped a bunch of arenas there (one of which is active like 20 days a year). In my opinion, the reason those cities (including Pittsburgh) have built up around their arenas is b/c they didn't do that. Sins of our fathers...next arena should be near or adjacent to Center City and watch the build up around it happen.
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Disagree 100% that a stadium should be built in Center City. Where would we build it??? We would tear down blocks of urban development at this point for a stadium and parking...terrible idea. Let Center City, University City and surrounding area continue to grow organically as it is.
Plus, Philadelphia needs MORE than just Center City. I know there are other attractive areas of the city, but nobody is really VISITING any area from outside of the city except for Center City unless they're going to a game.
#1 area in the city to build up HAS to be The Sports Complex. Every area around stadiums in the country has built up in recent years with modern, new development... then they come to Philadelphia and it's parking lots...
Cordish Co. needs to complete the ENTIRE Philly/Xfinity live complex... not just the bait and switch half-ass job we got:
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The city needs to follow it up by incentivizing developers to build hotels, residential, office and shopping on the parking lots between the stadiums and Broad Street.
The developments around the Stadiums in Atlanta, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh are perfect examples of what to do.
#2 area to build up is North Broad
#3 area to build up is Germantown... and make it a tourist destination.
#4 area to build up is City Ave in my opinion at least between 76 and St. Joe's.