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SugarHouse plans unanimously pass Council panel
0 Comments | Philadelphia Daily News, May, 2009 | by CHRIS BRENNAN brennac@phillynews.com 215-854-5973
The most interesting thing yesterday about a City Council committee hearing on legislation for SugarHouse, a casino planned for the banks of the Delaware, wasn't what was approved but rather who didn't show up.
Neighborhood opponents from Fishtown and Northern Liberties, and anti-gambling activists from Casino-Free Philadelphia, who have often provided a raucous atmosphere for such development hearings, skipped it.
Council's Rules Committee unanimously approved zoning changes requested by SugarHouse, which, after years of battles with the city and unhappy neighbors, unveiled last month a plan to build a smaller interim casino surrounded by surface parking lots. The casino's investors also want to lease parking spaces in two vacant warehouses just north of their site on...
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