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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
^ I only responded to you because you seemed to be arguing that the Philly sports complex is a good thing.
I think it's actually a shitty thing.
Just like most US stadium complexes surrounded by an ocean of asphalt.
Love it all you want.
I won't.
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It's going to be hard for anyone not from Philly to understand how it works for our region. It may not look pretty...but for us....it works. Cities are supposed to work. It handles the events efficiently. It has accessibility for everyone in the city and the suburbs in three states to get there from every direction by various modes of transportation and it doesn't bog down the streets in Center City any more than it is on most days.
You have to go there to appreciate it. It makes sense to me to have a Sports Complex in a sports mad city.
You also can see it has plenty of room for future development..or redevelopment...kind of like when they got rid of the suburban looking Mickey D's across from Wrigley Field and put more appropriate urban development in it's place. It can happen there too...hell that land was pig farms and muck a 100 years ago.
....and lets face it...that massive "hellscape" hosted Live AID in 1985 with pictures of the parking lots beamed around the world and it was held in a stadium 5 years away from being condemned for being structurally unsafe. Nobody talks about what it looked like in aerial pictures..they talk about what happened on the ground. Not that the World Cup final is going to be played in Philly...its going to be SoFi or Met Life...but it's a complex that is going to handle whatever games are played there very well getting the crowds in and out and probably may even have a party atmosphere in the areas surrounding The Linc.
If the Linc, Wells Fargo Center and The Bank were lined up in the same line like JFK, the Spectrum and The Vet were...it wouldn't look as bad...because they'd be along Broad and not set back like they are now.