After the City and Penn Praxis invested so much time, effort, and resources into putting together a publicly-supported plan for the Central Delaware waterfront, prospective waterfront tenant Steve Wynn, who wants to buy the Foxwoods project and its much criticized South Philly site, sent the wrong message yesterday in Harrisburg:

"The waterfront is horribly ugly in that place," said Wynn, who walked the casino lot on Tuesday night. "You couldn't do any more damage to it if you set it on fire."

Mr. Environmental Sensitivity also said the only way he'd agree to build the hotel that was part of the approved Foxwoods deal was if he got access to even more waterfront property, suburban sprawl-style. Seems like he doesn't believe that urban architecture should build up instead of out.

The funny thing is this makes it easier for the Gaming Control Board to do the right thing.

You can read about it in Chris Brennan's Daily News article.

By expressing such anti-waterfront and anti-Philadelphia views, Wynn is actually making it easier for the Gaming Control Board and state and local government to do what any fair observer knows is the right thing.

The right thing, obviously, is to simply bring the farce that is Foxwoods to an end and revoke the Foxwoods license. Either start from scratch with a process that allows the City and its citizens the right to choose where a project goes, or, as anti-gambling activists would suggest, don't start at all.

This obvious outcome is one even Wynn himself doesn't really oppose. He admitted as much yesterday when the option was mentioned:

One option still on the table for the board is the revocation of the casino license. Wynn yesterday said he would bid for the Philadelphia license if it is revoked by the board and put back up for grabs.

Philadelphia's elected officials in City Hall, Harrisburg, and even down in DC, should speak in one voice in calling for the PGCB to do the right thing.

Revoke the Foxwoods license.