The Sixers will pay for the Kenney administration’s studies on the impact of the team’s proposed downtown arena. It's an arrangement critics say casts doubt on the outcome of what were promised to be independent city analyses.
City officials said the Sixers would fund the $655,000 cost of two parts of the study, with the cost of a third part still to be determined.
“They know if the facts about the benefits of a new arena to Market East and the city as a whole — from thousands of new jobs and millions of dollars of additional tax revenues — are confirmed, the project will win overwhelming support.” The city requested that the Sixers create the pool of funds, but except for providing the financing, the team would have no involvement in the evaluation process, the statement said. PIDC would control the selection and management of the consultants “with no input from the Sixers,” the statement said.
PIDC will select the firms that will be tasked with evaluating three main aspects of the arena’s influence on its environs and the city: economics, building design, and community, the last including an angered Chinatown, the closest residential neighborhood to the 10th and Market Street site. An advisory committee was created to review and evaluate the responses from applicants, and to offer suggestions to the city and to PIDC as they select the consultants, according to the agency. That committee includes staff from the city Department of Planning and Development and the Mayor’s Office of Public Engagement, from PIDC, and from the Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corp. and the Save Chinatown Coalition.
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