Owners of the team hope to get city council's approval for the downtown site by year's end so they can open the arena by 2031

Vivian Chang works on a narrow Philadelphia street that would have been consumed by a Phillies stadium had Chinatown activists not rallied to defeat the plan in the early 2000s. Instead of 40,000 cheering fans,

Students and many immigrants would be affected if the work is done, they say. Vivian Chang works on a narrow Philadelphia street that would have been consumed by a Phillies stadium had Chinatown activists not rallied to defeat the plan in the early 2000s.