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It is great
It is great to have allies like we have had with AAU and a number of other Chinatown and Center City groups. I look forward to continuing and expanding our community to stop casinos altogether so that we can truly change how decisions are made in this city and who benefits from the decisions. Great job!
Congrats to Chinatown, for
Congrats to Chinatown, for standing up against basically every politician in the city...
...And now the fight begins in South Philly.
That airport sure is looking good these days.
Congrats to the No Casino in the Heart of the City Coalition
Congratulations to the coalition and its leadership (of which Caino-Free Phialdelphia is an active member). I especially want to thank leaders of Chinatown's many groups and leaders who always showed Casino-Free Philadelphia a great deal of respect in our efforts to stop predatory gambling in our city. The fight against casinos in Philly, Sugarhouse and Foxwoods has been principled and effective and will continue until we win and push casinos out of Philadelphia altogether. Here are my statements immediately following the PGCB ruling in Harrisburg .
This 40 month-long effort shifts to stopping the casinos outright. Casinos make no sense economically (for anyone besides the owners), the industry is tanking nationally, and there is a growing number of leaders across neighborhoods and constituencies who, through the last number of years of struggle, have created a larger community that know that casinos, no matter where they are located, increase poverty, addiction, corruption and crime. It is time to join together and advance a positive vision for our city that is based on smart sustainable planning and that recognizes that speculation and predatory business practices only destroy our city's future and must be stopped and replaced with a new approach to planning and economic development. The time is long past trying to solve the problem that the politicians and their patrons created (where to put casinos that only move us backwards) and start fighting for the vision of our city that citizens have, on our terms, together.
You can't put it by the Superfund site at the Airport
Because Fumo/Perzel wrote in a 10mi barrier from the nearest PA casino for some odd-ball reason, as if near proximity to casinos is bad (like Las Vegas???).
The ideal location would have been between the Platt and Girard Point bridges which is mostly contaminated soil and a wastewater treatment plant on one side, RFK on the other, and the Navy Yard down below.
But I would imagine there would be protests over that location, too.
"for some odd-ball reason"
Dominic Pileggi (cough, cough) Harrah's in Chester (cough, cough) on a KOZ that pays no real estate taxes, limited local taxes (cough, cough)
Also 10 miles effectively locates potential sites in the First State Senate district which probably appealed to then State Senator Fumo because that meant political benefit from steering the terms of development at the time it was passed - even if now its more of an albatross around the neck of current State Senator Farnese. One that he might possibly prefer to be rid of and vote to rescind in a hot minute if his colleagues allowed it a snowball's chance in hell of passing. At the very least he probably would ask for a less flawed decision making process. But that's a very, very big "if".
-Sean
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