Philadelphia City Council will reconvene on Thursday to vote on a package of bills that, if approved, would help green light the controversial plans to build a new Sixers arena in Center City.
Philadelphia City Council will reconvene on Thursday to vote on a package of bills that, if approved, would help green-light controversial plans to build a new Sixers arena in Center City.City council members met twice on Wednesday among crowds of chanting opponents that flooded council chambers inside City Hall. The first session was moved to the afternoon after council lacked votes for a committee vote, and the 4 p.m. meeting was later pushed to Thursday morning.
Arena protesters celebrated another temporary victory after city council scrubbed the vote for the fourth time, with opponents claiming "they don't have the votes."Meanwhile, Mayor Cherelle Parker held another listening session Wednesday, this time at McCall Elementary and Middle School to explain the arena process."The due diligence that they are doing right now, their homework, tough questions, everything they're going through, that's what a council does...
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