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Originally Posted by Table 5
The thing is that we all kind of already have one of those in Vic Park/East Village. There are existing sports venues, casinos, restaurants, bars, public transit lines, new residential condos, soon to be new museums/library/hotels...all within walking distance. There's still plenty of room for improvement, but the momentum is there.
Why try to create a new sports/entertainment district from scratch, when you can just further improve the existing one? Trying to recreate everything in WV will stunt what's happening in Vic Park, and in the end we'll probably end up with two mediocre ones.
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I'd argue that what we have now is an incredibly weak example of a sports/entertainment district if you can even define it as one. It's more of a lose collection of venues that operate independently. Transit access to Vic Park is okay but the WV site is superior and the biggest problem with the area you propose is that there's not enough room for a stadium unless it's on the Remington lands, which are a non-starter due to costs.