Why do people move into Center City if they are against commercial development?

Toby Keith is a surefire way to rile up the upper middle class, east coasters that live in Old City… what is the developer thinking?

I’d like to see a decent midsized country music venue in this town – who knows what this one would be like. Obviously this will never pass muster from the Center City crowd though.

@Mike

The plans and idea look great. Neighborhood residents are opposing it? Where do these people live? The only residents of that neighborhood that I was aware of were on the grates outside of the PGW offices.

It sounds like the civic is for 1200 bank but there are one or two well heeled residents of the white building trying to screw everyone else. that’s a great use for the space. even the old city proposal sounds like a decent one. Dicicco is right to introduce legislation you can’t run a city to appease an extreme minority.

I generally agree with the sentiment that Center City ought to have lots of density and diversity, and the more the merrier. And people who live in Center City generally understand this, and expect to live with a certain level of noise, and even mayhem, some of the time. Personally, I live down the street from numerous bars, including an after-hours club, and I am routinely awakened with noise from drunken people in the middle of the night, not to mention the medical helicopters, ambulances and early morning trash trucks. But you live with it. The 1200 Bank project is a bit different, however, because they don’t want to contain their club inside, but want to have a large outdoor roofdeck, where crowds of club goers will be loudly partying just 40 feet or so from people’s living room and bedroom windows. That seems a bit much to me. Let them have the billiard hall, but keep the noise and activity inside. Is that too much to ask? If I lived in the White Building, I would be pretty upset at the idea of having a big outdoor party so close to my living space every night of the week. I think the 1200 Bank developers are being greedy here, trying to turn this modest building into some sort of mega-club. If they just settle for an upscale billiard hall without the outdoor party deck, I’m sure the opposition would evaporate.