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Archive for the 'Casinos' Category


Special Report: A casino’s impact on Center City

Thursday, December 18th, 2008 at 12:59 pm - by Its Our City Staff

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 [...]


Plan Philly: Update on Foxwoods at Market East

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 at 5:52 pm - by Dan Pohlig

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 [...]


Now Chinatown must take the fight directly to Foxwoods

Friday, November 14th, 2008 at 1:57 pm - by Its Our City Staff

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 [...]


“Collective Wisdom” 11/11/08

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 6:46 am - by Alan Tu

Updated: 2:13pm
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 [...]


Saturday City Council Meeting on Rezoning for Foxwoods

Friday, October 31st, 2008 at 11:29 am - by Stephanie Marudas

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 [...]


Chinatown to Councilman: No Casino !!!!!

Friday, October 10th, 2008 at 8:07 am - by Alan Tu

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 [...]


Foxwoods/Gallery Casino could be open by Dec 2009

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 at 3:23 pm - by Alan Tu

Updated:
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 [...]


PA Supreme Court gives Sugarhouse another victory

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 at 7:24 am - by Alan Tu

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 [...]


Are we at a major turning point in the debate over casinos in Philly?

Monday, October 6th, 2008 at 1:00 am - by Alan Tu

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 [...]


Community activist Helen Gym on why she’s opposed to the Foxwoods/Gallery site

Monday, September 29th, 2008 at 5:01 pm - by admin

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. [...]

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