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Originally Posted by iheartphilly
Yeah, I hope it is definitely not in Camden. But part of me says with their brand spanking new training facility there, nothing is completely off the table as far as a new arena there. Nothing speaks of proximity to having a training facility and an arena in the same zip code. Nonetheless, I guess the owner has a lot to think about and has to have discussions with local government, developers, and investors, and the availability of land and construction time table that can meet a pre-defined deadline. The real question is when Joshua will pull the trigger on this plan and start to get all these things in motion. Time will tell if the economics will work and if he is really serious or not.
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Being next to the practice facility is nice, but deep South Philly to Camden is basically a lateral move at best. It'd be another arena accessible by highway and subway, but not very walkable and not surrounded by much.
The big difference of course is they'd own their own arena which is their main goal, but they don't just want a Philadelphia arena, they want THE Philadelphia arena that attracts every major concert, event, convention etc. They think the best way to do that is to be downtown.
I'm sure though Camden will be used as a bargaining chip. As you said, we'll see how serious this is soon enough. There has been plenty of smoke on it topic, but if they're actually moving sometime around 2030, we'll likely start to hear some more concrete information in the next few years.
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