News Item: Philadelphia's Spectrum to be shuttered next year
As someone who didn't move to Philadelphia until long after the Sixers, Flyers and most concerts had moved to the Wachovia Center, I don't have much connection to the place; I've been there only once, after all, for a minor league hockey game earlier this year. However, I found the place had much more character than the largely charmless Wachovia, which places its upper-deck seats (what seems like) miles from the floor and seems to segregate different sections by social class.
On the bright side, it will be nice to have some bars, restaurants, and other stuff down near the other stadiums. The argument for building new places is always supposedly to spur economic development in the surrounding area, but all the Sports Complex in Philly is surrounded by is concrete and more concrete.
Posted by Stephen Silver at July 15, 2008 03:28 PM