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A $159 million grant to build a three-block-long park over Philadelphia's Vine Street Expressway has been secured, and is set to reconnect the city's long-divided Chinatown.

A $159 million grant to build a three-block-long park over Philadelphia's Vine Street Expressway has been secured, and is set to reconnect the city's long-divided Chinatown.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Decades after Philadelphias Chinatown was bisected by a sunken expressway, city officials and federal lawmakers said Monday that they secured a grant to reconnect the community

Decades after Philadelphia’s Chinatown was bisected by a sunken expressway, officials say federal grant money will be used to reconnect the community. The $159 million grant announced Monday will pay

Chinatown residents are working on new proposals for the downtown strip where developers are planning a new basketball arena.

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Chinatowns in the United States and Canada have long been squeezed by development projects. Will a proposed arena in Philadelphia’s struggling downtown be the next?

Protesters turned out to demonstrate in Chinatown and send one very clear message to the city and the developers who want to bring a basketball arena – they don’t want it.

They are attending the inaugural U.S.-Canada Chinatown Cultural Preservation and Revitalization conference.

The team behind the billion-dollar development led a media tour of the potential footprint of the arena on Friday afternoon.