After years of protests against a plan to build a new arena for the NBA’s 76ers near Philadelphia’s Chinatown, a sudden reversal in those plans has left the neighborhood’s activists ...
Arena opponents gather at 10th and Arch streets in Chinatown for a press conference celebrating the change of plans that will put a new 76ers arena in South Philadelphia rather than adjacent to ...
The Philadelphia 76ers abandoned their plans to build an arena in Center ... Councilmember Jaime Gauthier — who voted against the Chinatown arena plan — wrote that the "news is a win for both ...
They hope the city takes the "76ers Saga" as a lesson ... Though there won't be a Center City arena, advocates for Chinatown are still pushing for all of the benefits that the neighborhood ...
Business owners and residents in Chinatown were concerned about losing customers, increased rent and traffic due to the arena. "China's culture in here would be destroyed, and people would not be ...
"If they bring the arena into Chinatown, that would be a disaster ... "confirms that 76DevCo [the name of the partnership between 76ers owners Josh Harris and David Blitzer and Philadelphia ...
PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia 76ers have decided ... of the city's Chinatown section, they said. The council had voted on Dec. 19 to approve the downtown arena after more than two years ...
PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia 76ers will partner with Comcast ... critics of the plan to put a $1.3 billion arena near City Hall at the edge of Chinatown. Mayor Cherelle Parker on Monday ...
The news broke Sunday, and was a shocking reversal for the 76ers, who spent two-and-a-half years pushing for their own new arena in Center City, on the border of Philadelphia's Chinatown.
PHILADELPHIA -- The Philadelphia 76ers have decided ... of the city's Chinatown section, they said. The council had voted Dec. 19 to approve the downtown arena after more than two years of heated ...