I was walking past it this morning and wondered why nobody has snatched up the Melrose yet. Make that parking lot into an outdoor eating area. Passyunk between broad and 16th should be restaurants and shops. That whole piece could close down to traffic and be a cool open air market.

I don't get the love of dropping condos everywhere. It's weird to put condos and beer garden's everywhere and call it a day.

As a wise man once said...

they're so mad that the city won't let them privatize trash collection

People living in some socialist utopia where the Sixers should single-handedly revive North Philly with an arena, ignoring that the same calls for gentrifying the neighborhood were given when Temple wanted to build a stadium by their campus. There are very few locations as accessible as above Jefferson and they want up to 50% of folks taking transit to the game, it’s that simple. And of course the Sixers are keeping their financials in mind, they’re a fucking sports organization, do you expect them to be guided by the goodness in their heart over everything?

Let’s say they did build it there, where exactly would you propose they put it? With current parking mínimums there’s no desirable real estate.

It’s like the Grand Canyon: words and photos can’t approach the grandeur of the in-person experience.

To relate to this, before I lived in the city I used to drive to visit my friend at 10th and carpenter near the Italian market. It seemed to be a sort of unspoken rule that the residents were able to park in the paid lot across the street for free. I parked there almost every time and walked right past the attendant and into his house.

What “all that space” on the waterfront are you even talking about? The Market street section next to Penn’s Landing the sixers already bid on and failed to win? Nothing on the waterfront is anywhere accessible as being on top of one of our transit hubs so that argument is a non-starter and will only lead to the Sixers ending up over the bridge, losing the city tens of millions in tax revenue.

Oh yeah I mean, there would definitely be places like diners that still exist, probably just with a lot less shiny siding and neon lights.

Not true. You can have a diner below an apartment building. That kind of mixed use development creates a better, more walkable neighborhood.

Edit: Ellsworth Federal is one of the best examples of terribly used land. We have a surface lot in front of a diner at Ellsworth and a Pep Boys with a surface lot at Federal. Keep the businesses, remove the lots, upzone with more housing.

i mean ok, but then there's definitely not going to be any cool diners next to subway stops.

That sweet summer child, she's adorable!

Ah, that makes sense. I’m just not a fan of the fill every space with shitty high rise condos trend

Or...they could just find somewhere not complete trash to put the stadium...oh like the district with the rest of the stadiums? Crazy thought I know...

Sleep is the cousin of death

Fox News took Orwell’s two minutes hate idea and made it a 24/7 enterprise.

Because property is underutilized along our main transit corridors both in and out of the city limits. The tax structures make it so that land owners can sit on basically empty pieces of land right on top of subway stops for minimal cost as long as they don't build. Higher taxes on the land itself would force them to shit or get off the pot. This is why you see land in center city being used as surface parking lots. LVT makes it harder to hold empty plots of land (like Broad and Washington was for so many years) in order to speculate on the future value. Land speculation raises the price for the rest of us who want to actually use the land for housing or business.

Because people travel thousands of miles to see the wonderment of 15th and Passyunk with their own eyes.

Maybe it was the PPA lot at 9th and Reed?

Why is this getting upvotes lol

>The Society of the Spectacle" by Guy Debord

Just read it and that essay neatly captures where we are now. It's all about the views. No community, just images of outrage trapped in a continual present.

Between the "..who flipped *one* car" comment and the generalization of people from an area that spans 15 different zip codes... this is a dumb contribution I'm sorry

I don’t understand why people are so anti stadium as though the 76ers have to “do something for the city”

1. Stay in Philadelphia they could move to Camden and then everyone would have egg in their face.
2. They tried to build on Penn and landing but city council went with a different developer which I support but I believe I read a few months back that the developer who won the contract is now having financial issues.
3. I don’t support building a bowl stadium but tearing down half of the fashion district which is 40% empty anyways should be a so contentious.
4. I don’t see how building a stadium in north Philly is going to help anyone if anything it would more than like displace a lot of families.
5. If septa ran a game day train schedule we would be fine, honestly the regional rail schedule needs to be increased anyway. It’s obvious you can’t expect people to take public transportation and then run a train every 2 hours.
6. The people who keep claiming they want to protect Chinatown, act like the city can’t find other remedies, build the chins tien stitch and then boom you have all kinds of real estate for them, eliminate parking mínimums and allow it densify.

Y’all just want to complain instead of finding real solutions.

this is just a random story, but I was talking to my aunt about a month ago and telling her about a parking issue I had. About 35 years back she lived at 8th and Reed before moving to the burbs, and she said something to effect of "oh I used to just park in the lot there on the corner of 9th" (or something).

She asks if I just have a corner lot that residents park in, for free mind you, anywhere near me. I tried explaining that that's not a thing, and that there isn't a chance in hell that whatever lot she parked in from the mid 70's to mid 80's is still there. She refused to believe her lot was gone, and that the (nameless/faceless) owner of that property would ever undercut the neighborhood just to make a buck.

It’s now called vue on 50…that’s where me and my wife had our reception this past summer for our wedding