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Comcast-Spectacor has built a sports empire on strong relationships and a strategy of slow, steady growth.
It took 2 1/2 years, but the Philadelphia Spectrum, filled with history from the Broad Street Bullies to Dr. J to The Grateful Dead, has finally been reduced to a pile of rubble.
The Spectrum was the original hub for what is now sports company Comcast-Spectacor, whose roots go back 45 years. Now that the arena is gone — after multiple farewell games and concerts and about three months of actual demolition work — the site is being cleared for the next chapter in the Comcast-Spectacor story, a massive, 50,000-square-foot sports bar that will be the first piece of the Philly Live retail, dining and entertainment complex.
Originally published in ‘Sports Business Journal: March 7-13, 2011 | volume 13 issue 44′ by Don Muret
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