The Battery, Baseball Village, Hollywood Park, Titletown — all are sports-and-entertainment complexes developed beside stadiums and arenas in Atlanta, St. Louis, Los Angeles, and Green Bay, Wis., and elsewhere. Now, Flyers owner Comcast Spectacor and the Phillies plan to do the same in South Philly, turning acres of parking lots into bars, restaurants, hotels, and apartments.

The Battery, Baseball Village, Hollywood Park, Titletown — all are sports-and-entertainment complexes developed beside stadiums and arenas in Atlanta, St. Louis, Los Angeles, and Green Bay, Wis., and elsewhere. Now, Flyers owner Comcast Spectacor and the Phillies plan to do the same in South Philly, turning acres of parking lots into bars, restaurants, hotels, and apartments.