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Chinatown stands poised for a particularly joyous Lunar New Year, celebrating not only the Year of the Snake but the demise of a Sixers arena project it saw as a viper set to strike the community ...
The Sixers successfully pushed to build a new arena in Center City. Now the controversial project is in the rearview after an about-face no one saw coming. Arena opponents gather at 10th and Arch ...
A joint venture of the two paid $56 million for the handful of sites on a Market Street corridor ripe for revival ...
The Sixers are no longer interested in building an arena in Center City. Opponents say the project would have devastated nearby Chinatown.
The $1.3 billion arena would be built near Chinatown. Advocates for that area testified Tuesday that the neighborhood can't survive if the arena is built.
The Philadelphia 76ers want to build a billion-dollar arena in the city's downtown. Residents and business owners in nearby Chinatown say the project will destroy the thriving neighborhood.
The mayor and labor unions touted the economic promise of the $1.3 billion project. Opponents said the arena would decimate the city’s storied Chinatown.
Philly Chinatown Residents Don’t Trust the Arena Development Process At a crucial political moment, thousands marched in the pouring rain in opposition to the proposed Sixers arena in the heart of ...
A rendering of the what the proposed Sixers arena would look like on Camden's waterfront has been released. The state has expressed strong interest in the arena being relocated there ...
The fight over the Sixers arena was only the latest struggle in over 50 years of community organizing in Philadelphia’s Chinatown.
The Philadelphia 76ers abandoned their plans to build an arena in Center City on January 12. Credit: Chenyao Liu The Philadelphia 76ers recently abandoned their plans to build an arena in Center City ...