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Old 02-22-2018, 01:52 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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I still have trouble wrapping my head that this is about to be under construction.

The Casino is going to be large.

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Live! Hotel & Casino Philadelphia will be a $600 million world-class hotel, gaming, dining and entertainment destination featuring 2,000 slot machines and 125 table games, an upscale 200+ room boutique hotel, a new 2,600-space parking garage, locally and nationally-recognized restaurants and live entertainment venues. The project will be conveniently located in the heart of the Stadium District in South Philadelphia, immediately proximate to XFINITY Live!, The Cordish Companies’ premier dining & entertainment district.
The Cordish Companies - Live! Hotel & Casino Philadelphia


The museum will be down the street directly across from the Linc.

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The Museum of Sports would be a permanent, interactive museum celebrating America’s greatest teams and athletes. It would be one of the world’s only museums celebrating all major sports.

The MoS would display world-class collections of priceless memorabilia, a high-tech array of digital and virtual reality activities for families and schools, plus a theater, sports restaurant, and shops for collectibles and memorabilia.
https://www.themuseumofsports.org

^the sports museum finished its fund raising last week and expects to open next year. The casino is expected to open its doors in 2020.

I’m curious to hear some others thoughts on this. Good idea? Or should the stadium district stay as mainly parking lots? Do you think they will build apartments and townhouses around there eventually?

I’m just trying to picture the insanity of this place after a big football game. Imagine the Live! Casino serving alcohol 24/7 with the games going on at the same time. Xfinity Live! can already get pretty crazy.

I use to be opposed to the idea of the sugarhouse, but I think it has found its niche. The Sugarhouse has expanded to have bigger events like Evander Holyfield fight nights and stand up comedians like Chris Rock this past month.
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Old 02-22-2018, 03:14 PM
 
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I can't tell if the Museum of Sports is for all teams or Philly teams. The copy sounds like all but all the renderings show only Philly teams. That could be cool but it could also be extremely lame.

That hotel and casino is going to make a killing.
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Old 02-22-2018, 03:58 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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I can't tell if the Museum of Sports is for all teams or Philly teams. The copy sounds like all but all the renderings show only Philly teams. That could be cool but it could also be extremely lame.

That hotel and casino is going to make a killing.
Lol. I know. I read the museum will be philly-centric, but have other things too.

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A large amount of the memorabilia that will be on display comes from DePace's collection, including a rare Babe Ruth uniform shirt, Wilt Chamberlain's last game-used jersey he wore with the 76ers and Joe Frazier's robe and trunks worn in his 1971 fight against Muhammad Ali.
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news...474054453.html
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Old 02-22-2018, 05:25 PM
 
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The stadium district (I guess thats its name now) should definitely be more than just parking lots. The casino is going to add a lot to the area. Usually I am very skeptical of casino projects in urban areas since the may take advantage of the existing lower income populations, how I originally felt about sugarhouse. This however seems like a destination that people will want to go to. I like the idea of creating an entertainment district there since it is a bit removed from regular residents so there won't be lots of complaints for noise and drunks. The area has excellent access due to the BSL stop. I wish lot A and T adjacent to the AT&T (Coincidence?) station should be built up. The goal should be that people frequently use that stop when there aren't games. I would be curious to know the ridership statistics at AT&T when there isn't a game. I've only used it once to get to FDR park.

Not sure how townhomes would work since it would be loud and as much as I love a good Eagles tailgate I would never want to live on top of it. A casino and a museum are a good start. Maybe next could be some sort of urban amusement park. Some small roller coasters and other rides, maybe even go-karts. Also since Festival Pier is eventually going to be developed they could bring a concert venue down there as well. Fill up the lots and de-incentivize driving to the stadiums. Make the stadium district a destination year round. A few small hotels or mid rise apartments with ground floor retail wouldn't hurt either
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Old 02-23-2018, 06:13 AM
 
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What I can't wrap my brain around is how LONG this whole thing has taken! I mean all the insanity about Phila.'s 2nd casino license. For newbies to the city, Foxwoods was originally awarded the license something like 10 years ago or something like that. Not feeling like researching an actual timeline, suffice it to say it involved all kinds of players including the now disgraced Steve Wynn.

Also, the Foxwood casino was supposed to be built on land directly across Columbus Blvd from the Riverview movie theater. Now, apparently, residences are going to be built there.
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Old 02-23-2018, 01:28 PM
 
Location: The City
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The stadium district (I guess thats its name now) should definitely be more than just parking lots. The casino is going to add a lot to the area. Usually I am very skeptical of casino projects in urban areas since the may take advantage of the existing lower income populations, how I originally felt about sugarhouse. This however seems like a destination that people will want to go to. I like the idea of creating an entertainment district there since it is a bit removed from regular residents so there won't be lots of complaints for noise and drunks. The area has excellent access due to the BSL stop. I wish lot A and T adjacent to the AT&T (Coincidence?) station should be built up. The goal should be that people frequently use that stop when there aren't games. I would be curious to know the ridership statistics at AT&T when there isn't a game. I've only used it once to get to FDR park.

Not sure how townhomes would work since it would be loud and as much as I love a good Eagles tailgate I would never want to live on top of it. A casino and a museum are a good start. Maybe next could be some sort of urban amusement park. Some small roller coasters and other rides, maybe even go-karts. Also since Festival Pier is eventually going to be developed they could bring a concert venue down there as well. Fill up the lots and de-incentivize driving to the stadiums. Make the stadium district a destination year round. A few small hotels or mid rise apartments with ground floor retail wouldn't hurt either


I often thought that wrapping the parking lots in mid rise apartments/maybe some offices would work for the area, great access to the BSL as well




Also imagine the apartments lining the streets and what CBP would be like with a line of restaurants and bars on the bottom




also the park on broad is nice and under-utilized
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Old 09-14-2018, 06:08 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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I noticed there is a big sign on the warehouse building across from the Linc that says "Future Sports History Museum". Curiously, I looked up if there was any new information on it. I didn't find anything new per say, but I found a funny video of the guy trying to build selling it from May. The building design they are going for the Museum is a lot more wild than I imagined and the whole thing is more ambitious than just an average museum.

https://www.nbcsports.com/philadelph...philly-history

Up the street, the old Holiday Inn is completely gutted and getting prepped for conversion to the Stadium Casino hotel. There isn't much news, other than their application to have sports betting at there will be decided in October. Not to be completely outdone, the owners of Parx are building a sports betting portion to the off-track betting place at 7th and Packer. This has the chance to be open before the end of this football season.

I think there should be a special tax that requires it go to street fixing and cleaning improvements. Do it in the same way that soda tax has been rebuilding parks.
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Old 09-15-2018, 06:41 AM
 
Location: Montgomery County, PA
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It's great that there will be a sports history museum, presumably focused around Philly sports. I was at the one in PBG this summer and it was really cool. Those types of things can draw a lot of tourists to parts of the city they may not otherwise go to, in addition to all the business they will get on game days.
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Old 12-19-2018, 04:05 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Pa. approves Cordish takeover of Philly stadium casino project


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Pennsylvania regulators on Wednesday endorsed a Maryland casino operator’s proposal to take over a partnership that plans to build a long-delayed South Philadelphia casino project.


The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board voted unanimously to approve Cordish Cos. of Baltimore as the outright owner of Stadium Casino LLC, which has a license to build the Philly Live! Hotel & Casino on the site of a former Holiday Inn at 900 Packer Ave. Cordish announced in November it is buying out its partner in the $700 million project, a subsidiary of Greenwood Gaming, which owns the Parx Casino in Bensalem.


Cordish officials have told the state that demolition of a former Holiday Inn will begin soon, and construction of the new casino and hotel would begin early next year.


Think in under 2 years, you will be able to drink, gamble, bet on pro sports, and walk out the door to a sixers/flyers/eagles/phillies/wings/soul game.
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Old 12-20-2018, 06:57 AM
 
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Pa. approves Cordish takeover of Philly stadium casino project





Think in under 2 years, you will be able to drink, gamble, bet on pro sports, and walk out the door to a sixers/flyers/eagles/phillies/wings/soul game.
DP, not holding my breath about your prediction. This boondoggle has taken, what ,10 years or more going back to when Foxwood got the initial licence.
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