Here’s the latest on the plans that will turn the sports complex into a mixed-use area providing pre and post-game attractions like never before.Īccording to a late November article from, “the hotel and casino complex … would be located just outside the South Philadelphia Sports Complex.” To that end, the nearby Holiday Inn hotel – which was already purchased by the casino’s developers – will likely be torn down in December 2018 to make way for the project. If you’re looking for cheesesteaks in Philly, on the other hand, you can already find them within the Sports Complex and at the flagship Geno’s location at 9 th Street and Passyunk Avenue. For gamblers looking to cash in on Philly’s second gambling license, it looks like the wait will go on for another two years at most. This means there’s at least a projected opening in mind: the end of 2020. Now, on the eve of that fourth year and fast heading for a fifth still on the drawing board, the developer has been granted a two-year extension.

It’s been more than four years since word of a hotel/casino in South Philadelphia’s Sports Complex sector first made headlines.

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