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How do you make the ground floor of an arena strengthen the area around it, rather than diminish it? | Philadelphia 76ers

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Philadelphia 76ers basketball team (owned by the managing partner of the group that recently bought the Washington NFL football team), released a proposal last year to build a new arena as part of the sputtering Market East shopping center on Market Street, using examples of DC's Capital One Arena and the Barclay's Center in Brooklyn to demonstrate the value of centrally located arenas (" A downtown arena for the Sixers can be a Philly thing, too ," Philadelphia Inquirer ). -- " Proposal to