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BulbasaurCPA t1_jdft3ge wrote

Reply to comment by ReturnedFromExile in Black clergy and businesspeople support Sixers arena proposal by dc122186

I feel like “don’t build things that are wildly unpopular with the residents” is a good policy for a city to have in general, but that has not stopped most cities unfortunately

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OnionBagMan t1_jdfwakg wrote

What you are describing is a suburb and HOA type idea rather than a city.

People in cities hate everything. Paris hated the Eiffel Tower. People hated the Empire state building and people hate Comcast 1.

I get where you are coming from but for a long time Philly didn’t even want tall buildings. That set the city back about 100 years behind Chicago and New York.

Maybe a car oriented stadium isn’t what we need. Maybe we will lose the stadium to Camden. Who knows? Just don’t tear stuff down to make parking lots and IDGAF what you build. That’s just me though.

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ReturnedFromExile t1_jdg4qb3 wrote

not only that the people that hate things are the vocal ones. Plenty of people are perfectly fine with the idea of an arena in Chinatown.

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