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Modified Design OK'd For SugarHouse

PHILADELPHIA - The SugarHouse Slots Casino has cleared its last major hurdle on the way to a summertime groundbreaking along the North Delaware Riverfront.

Philadelphia's Planning Commission Wednesday gave its okay for design changes to the casino.

The initial phase will now include surface parking instead of a garage, a slightly different building location within the site and improved access to the waterfront, reported Fox 29's Bruce Gordon.

"We believe that this enhanced design is consistant with a number of the city's planning and urban design objectives, and will support the rapid construction and opening of the SugarHouse casino on North Delaware Avenue,” says SugarHouse architect Ian Cope.

"Do not call this proposal anything but what it is, which is a scaled back, strip mall, cut-rate version of a casino that will at least, at one phase, put about 1500 surface parking spaces on the river in direct violation of the most basic principles of waterfront planning, development and design,” says anti-casino activist Matt Ruben.

SugarHouse wants to open for business by early summer of 2010 with about 1700 slots machines in its initial phase.

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