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I was trying to find the article I read a while back that detailed the history behind DC's Chinatown (i.e. the one that specifically articulates that most Chinese with the exception of some elderly folks in a public housing complex had departed to NoVa and Maryland long before the DC Arena)...and I came across an article (in DC media) that interviewed 3 Chinese men about how the Arena there had destroyed DC Chinatown (built in 1997) in the same breath that mentioned all 3 of them had left the neighborhood in the 1980s (a decade before the arena was built) for the suburbs. Literally no one involved in writing or interviewing for the article saw the irony.
Anyways, in another curious note, apparently Chinatown activists demanded the residential tower on the north side of the proposal be "removed" because it's a "middle finger" to the neighborhood even though it includes 80 affordable units. You can't make this stuff up.
It'd be okay though if it were a metal panel Chinatown special with vinyl casements windows built by one of them.
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But the uncertainty that accompanies all these new proposals around the arena was emphasized on Thursday by Councilmember Mark Squilla’s statement that he was committed to having the development team scrap the original 395-unit tower, which was to include affordable housing.
“My colleagues in Chinatown are really opposed to that housing development on top of the arena,” said Squilla. “They took that as a middle finger to Chinatown. … So I’ve been working with the development team to remove that piece from the project.”
Squilla said Chinatown neighborhood groups saw the tower as an insulting concession of little value offered by the 76ers to ease the passage of an arena they bitterly opposed to.
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https://www.inquirer.com/real-estate...-20240926.html
On another note...for those with better googling skills than me. Can someone please find the article about DC Chinatown that lays plain that it already wasn't a Chinese neighborhood anymore before their arena was built? I can't find it. I feel like it was written by their version of City Paper/Philadelphia Weekly some time ago.