Hard to say, but if this article is anything to go by, developer David Grasso‘s forthcoming big-box music venue probably won’t be shouted down by Port Richmond neighbors who must have forgotten that they already live by a highway underpass and railroad tracks that bums call “paradise” and whores call “the workplace.” That’s because Grasso did the wise thing and had his warehouse at 2055 Richmond St. exempted from a local nightclub ban (thanks, Frank DiCicco!). This means that Grasso won’t be subject to the same community circus that dashed, say, Avram Hornik’s plans to turn the old Jumbo Theater into a venue in Fishtown a few years back. So he’ll probably get to open, and he says he’ll do so with a “national promoter” in hand — by our guess, if not House of Blues, one of the promoters mentioned in the headline. Since Sugarhouse got table games, it’s seemed inevitable to us that the new Delaware Ave. business-scape would naturally include a big venue, whether in-casino or out. Grasso may have just beaten Sugarhouse to the punch.

This entry was posted on Thursday, August 5th, 2010 at 12:59 pm.