In doing the reporting for her story below, WHYY’s Elizabeth Fiedler paid a visit to the Gallery at Market East and talked to patrons of the mall and folks who work nearby.  She wanted to find out whether people who frequent the Gallery or are regularly in close proximity would find themselves tempted to spend [...]

Continuing to the necessary work of in depth coverage of the casino issue, Plan Philly provides a review of the progress on the planning, approval and construction of the Foxwoods casino on Market East.   According to the article, the city is moving ahead by issuing Requests for Proposals to do the redevelopment of The Gallery [...]

By John Chin
The Gallery Market East was put in play as an alternate site for the Foxwoods casino on September 9, 2008. Governor Rendell and Mayor Nutter stood together to announce this center city site.  Shortly after, City Council hurried the legislative process to introduce the “Commercial Entertainment District” legislation, which would accommodate a casino [...]

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Lower gas prices are being reported in Philadelphia. One location reportedly is selling gas for $2 a gallon
Original post: 6:46am
SugarHouse and historian disagree on significance of building foundation discovered at site
AC casino revenues down 10%
Philadelphia World Series parade cost top $1,000,000
Residents of Fishtown section of Philadelphia rally to save library branch
City moves raise parking [...]

Maybe you were planning to sleep in tomorrow morning after celebrating Halloween and the Phillies’ victory. But if you really want to let City Council know what you think about the proposed Foxwoods casino at The Gallery, you better set your alarm clock. Council is holding a meeting tomorrow at 10 am to get public [...]

Ouch! Philadelphia City Councilman Frank DiCicco got an earful from angry residents last night at a meeting to discuss a plan for a casino bordering Chinatown. Plan Philly, which has a complete write up and a video of the contentious gathering, reports that “the crowd did most of the talking. And chanting and yelling sometimes.”
Frank [...]

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The blog Plan Philly says things could happen very fast with one of Philadelphia’s planned casinos. A Foxwoods key investors is quoted as saying the Center City casino could begin operations by the end of next year. This target date came out of a meeting yesterday between Brian Ford, chief executive of Washington Philadelphia Investors [...]

Yesterday the Pennsylvania Supreme Court rejected the City of Philadelphia’s request to reconsider its previous ruling on Sugarhouse Casino. This means the Sugarhouse gets to keep its right to extend its development over the Delaware River in Philadelphia.
Chris Brennan from The Daily News explains this much better than I can. See Clout.
Plan Philly has a [...]

There was a time, I believed that Foxwoods and Sugarhouse casinos had the odds in their favor. The State Supreme Court in Pennsylvania was telling Philadelphia to stop dragging its feet and speed up the permit process. It appeared that nothing was going to stop them from building two casinos along the Delaware River. In [...]

by Shannon Curley
It’s Our City is a project that aims to give community activists access to a larger audience. One issue that has sparked strong community involvement has been where to place two planned casinos in Philadelphia.There has a vocal opposition to both casinos from both neighborhood associations and more professional groups like Casino-Free Philadelphia. [...]