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Chinatown reacts to Sixers' decision to remain in South Philly

In Chinatown, there’s joy and relief at the scrapped plan for a Sixers arena in Center City. For more than two years the community resisted the $1.3 billion project, pointing to multiple studies and findings and citing the city’s own analysis, which projected damaging losses to businesses — only to see its pleas ignored by a mayor who cheered the development and a City Council that voted 12-5 in favor.
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