It has been nearly two years since the Philadelphia 76ers began meeting behind closed doors with government officials to get approval of their proposal to build a basketball arena atop Jefferson Station. Since I submitted my Right-To-Know Law requests in July 2023, lobbying expense reports show the Sixers have spent an additional $2,136,744.
Sixers’ limited partner, billionaire David Adelman, has fallen from City Hall to an event hall in Kensington, ground zero for the opioid epidemic.
The transactional Black Clergy of Philadelphia & Vicinity supports the project. They also supported the Sixers’ 2020 failed land grab and corporate welfare scheme.
Bishop Dwayne Royster, executive director of POWER Interfaith, said don’t believe the hype:
In the meanwhile, there is no timeline for release of the “independent” arena impact studies paid for by the Sixers. The studies should have been released in December 2023.
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