For now, Packer Park residents in South Philadelphia are jubilant that the city’s Zoning Board of Adjustment Wednesday rejected Parx Casino’s application to relocate its Turf Club off-track-betting business inside a Chickie’s and Pete’s restaurant.
During a Zoom hearing, the board voted 4-to-1 to deny the application for a special exception that would permit gaming inside the restaurant, at 1526 Packer Ave.
“We are thrilled,” Barbara Capozzi, president of the Packer Park Civic Association, said in a statement Wednesday after the vote earlier in the morning.
Last February, neighbors…[attended] a zoom meeting with lawyers from Parx Casino about Parx’s zoning application.
