The impact studies make one essential truth clear: Chinatown will not benefit and may not survive if 76 Place gets the green light.
The intersection of 10th and Arch Streets in Philadelphia’s Chinatown on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, the day after the city’s release of long-awaited studies on the impacts of a downtown Sixers arena .last week. Among the hundreds of pages and projections of the reports — which were funded by the Sixers — one essential truth is clear:These studies are window dressing to obscure the fact that the main beneficiaries of this project will be the billionaires who proposed it.
Impact studies underscore the strong divide on Sixers arena. City Hall must now step into the breach. | Editorial
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