There was a discussion about this on the radio last week with Keon Hardemon (Representative for OT) and others where they spoke on this.
According to Keon the majority of the residents are for it and it will actually create more money for the CRA where they can redevelop the area a bit. He also mentioned that the protesters weren't actual residents of the area, and once they left only those that lived there were left and spoke in favor of the project.
Pretty much their only concern is having work.
On the otherhand the protesters were worried about gentrification of course and had their doubts as to whether or not this would create jobs.
After their discussion I sided with Hardemon only because it's true that the World Center is not actually in OT and it's also true that OT is getting cleaned up and being maintained as a 'Historic Disctrict' and having the World Center there could bring more attention to that. But we'll see how it goes...
We will see I know Hardemon he went to the West I met him at Famu actually I just dont trust the city because I seen so many broken promises especially dealing with Town