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The The Only Only Union Union Newspaper Newspaper Reporting Reporting South/Southwest South/Southwest Philly Philly The The Way Way It Deserves It Deserves
January October 22, 16, 2015 2014
Casino Coming To Neighborhood
LIVE! HOTEL & CASINO will be a $400-million development at 900 Packer Avenue in Phila.’s Stadium District. This casino will employ 2,000 permanent workers and 3,000 construction jobs and is a Illustration courtesy of Cordish Cos. union project.
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by Maria Merlino The air was full of excitement as executives from the Cordish Cos. Live! Hotel & Casino were guests of the South Philadelphia Business Association’s monthly dinner meeting at Galdo’s Catering and Entertainment Complex last Tuesday evening. Board member attorney Vince DeFino was enthusiastic about the future of procurement and how to do business with the future casino. “We would like to get our own South Philly businesses involved in working with Cordish Cos.,” he said.
“We have bakeries, meat markets, security, lawyers, exterminators, insurance agents, internet, software, computer people and many other businesses that would do well in a casino environment. We are looking to have as much local business to stay here and employ people from South Philadelphia. Every trade and profession can be easily transferred.” The site at 9th and Packer Avenue will feature a 19-story, 220 room hotel tower attached to a seven-story park(Cont. Page 2)