But he was really good at bouncing a ball around and putting it through a net, therefore he deserves your unquestioning adoration and tens of millions of dollars.

....I hate our culture of celebrity and athlete worship so fucking much.

I live within walking distance and I don't really understand the objections. If I were given the choice between a Sheetz and a little green space there I'd go for the green space 100% but that isn't the choice we're being given. That intersection is all concrete as far as the eye can see anyway. Food Lion, 7-11, 2 garages, McDonald's, that new chicken fast food place and a dozen or so other shops. This seems like pure NIMBY-ism and it's not even understandable "I don't want a housing project in my backyard" NIMBY-ISM. It seems whiny to me even as a neighborhood local but that's just my $0.02.

As an aside, I wonder what the owners of that Thai restaurant and Natalie's Taste of Lebanon and Galley etc think about it. It might drive traffic to their businesses a bit?