The Philadelphia City Council on Thursday approved a $1.3 billion plan to build a downtown basketball arena next to Chinatown for their hometown Philadelphia 76ers.
The votes to ratify a package of bills authorizing the Sixers to proceed, mostly by a 12-5 margin, capped more than two years over a 18,500-seat arena that supporters said would create thousands of construction jobs.
“All of Philadelphia will benefit from this project,” Ms. Parker said at a City Hall news conference after the vote. “We are about to put the next generation of skilled workers to work right here.”