Pastors of prominent African American churches endorsed the construction of a new Sixers arena on Thursday, joined by chamber of commerce officials who said the project promised jobs and opportunity to the Black community.
The team says it can build and operate an arena without harming Chinatown.while driving foot traffic, business, and spending in a downtrodden stretch of the Market East corridor.
, in South Philadelphia, where they have played since 1996. There, the team is a tenant in a building owned by Comcast Spectacor, which also owns the Flyers. The project also has been endorsed by the Philadelphia Building and Construction Trades Council, composed of 50 different unions, and by the Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters, a 42,000-member union that called the project a “rare opportunity.”
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