Daily News | Point man for Sixers’ arena plan: ‘The city’s not going to fix itself’
Sometimes, David Adelman, who wants to build a downtown arena for the 76ers, walks west on Market Street from Front Street. “You get to 5th Street, even 6th, it’s great,” he said. “Day or night, this is great. You get to 7th and 8th, and you’re like, ‘I’m someplace else.’”
In his view, Philadelphia and its institutions need a renaissance, one that the city’s political leaders cannot and will not deliver, and building the arena, reshaping the Fashion District, and filling what he called the “doughnut hole,” those decaying and benumbed Center City blocks, are essential to that urban rebirth.
“If there are public dollars that we’re eligible for that would help us enhance it,” said David Gould, the Sixers’ chief diversity and impact officer, “of course we’re going to be open to it — from the state and federal level, not from the city level. But it’s not like we need that in order for this project to move forward.”
Even the residents and business owners of Chinatown and other nearby neighborhoods should be reassured, Adelman and Gould said. No one will be displaced. The Sixers are merely taking “one big box,” as Gould put it, and replacing it with a better one.
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