Yeah it sucks, there's so much in this city that falls through the cracks, and a few of us that still care enough to clean it up. Consider it an investment in your future karma, and know that there are literally dozens of us that appreciate your contribution.

That was my attempt at sarcasm through text lol I was born and raised in Philly, even been a lifelong sixers fan and I think the arena in center city is dumb. I like where it’s at in south Philly. If something ain’t broke, don’t fix it!

Those cowards are afraid to show their faces in Philadelphia.

Remember when they were run out of the city?

We're ready to devour you.

North Philly has access to public transit and is a much higher priority than market east right now. Market East needs multi-unit housing, thriving restaurants and small businesses, not a huge arena that will be open 3 nights a week. Sorry, a 76ers arena was never a solution to revitalizing market East

I bet the Black Israelites support it too, they can stand outside and yell at fans on game day!

They are doing a horrible job marketing the proposal are you new here

Down (the broad street line) town

Make it free and use the money they don’t spend not picking up trash.

Yea it looks like you are right. So i guess the hikes are to pay of the loans.

What does it mean? I seen it last week.

I think that's a loan, not a grant.

Not as complicated as you are thinking. Assuming you are planning on putting the bathroom directly above your current bathroom you can tie the waste line into your stack(should be exiting out of your roof) and pulling supply lines up is not a big job. I did exactly this in my three story row.

Too fucking bad, no one wants it there but them

just wanted to point out that students living off campus en masse is a relatively recent concept (within the last 30 years or so) while most people who have been living here since the 50s/60s. About 20 years ago my block was entirely non students, now it is 95% students. Just want to point out that a lot of the people who originally moved here only moved to this area because it was dangerous to move into other neighborhoods as black families. Redlining was very much legal then.

It's a good location and proposal. All the opposition to it is coming from NIMBYs who want to hold center city back, and suburbanites who don't want to step foot in the city proper.

Screw it. Since the whole entire world going to shit. Screw the feelings of long residents of Chinatown. Lets just go full blown nuts! Build the damn arena.

Damn if you do, screwed if you don't.

Thanks

It's not congested at all out side of rush hour and has plenty of room to grow, this is a dumb take.

‘Jeet?

The brunt of the argument is that the location is transit oriented, the secondary argument is driving business growth on East Market.

North Philly can provide neither of these things as well as center city can.

The second they do that all the same arguments about why Temple can't have a stadium will come right back for a 76ers North Philly location, but with even more claims of gentrification, colonizers, etc.

The center city location on top of a train station and fronting Market St is a logically good choice that will benefit East Market, a North Philly location is just not as good for a variety of reasons and is why they didn't propose it.

This is a tremendous idea. Reporters need to ask the 76ers if it’s been considered.

She seems to be effective on issues in her district but I don’t like her association with the useless so called progressive like Helen Gym etc. Her inserting herself in the encampment issue was a bad sign.

I hope the idea is that this would force more ppl to take public trans which would encourage septa to up its game.

My god, I seriously don't need this diversion right now but from the few posts that I read that sub is bonkers in the best possible way! To be clear, though, I was being serious in my comment above. Debord's ideas are prescient, as are Umberto Eco's in his essay "The New Middle Ages."