明早8点, 市政厅集合抗议76人新球馆立法草案的提交! 保护费城唐人街, 我们需要你！

Xu Lin，Bubblefish餐厅老板

在76人新球馆建设之前，我的生意就已经会难以为继，建成之后情况只会更加糟糕。试问，哪位顾客愿意来一个天天噪音不断、道路封闭、交通拥堵、停车困难、空气污染严重的地方呢?

Mke Ha，QT越南三明治店老板

76人新球馆建成之后，消费者所有的餐饮消费都会在体育馆内进行，收入也会进体育馆老板的口袋，而不是流向我们这些本地商家。我敢说，等球馆完工开放后我们几乎没有生存的可能。

我们的店离新球馆只有两家店铺的距离，店面又很小。球馆的兴建会迫使社区的居民和商家逐步迁离，整个社区将逐渐消失。交通、噪音和污染会把住在这里的人们赶走。

我们之所以选择在唐人街开店，是因为我们是一家特色餐馆，主要服务那些知道越南法棍（Banh Mi）是什么的顾客。而去球馆的人可能会更想吃芝士牛排（Cheesesteak）这类小吃，但这些都能在体育馆内买到，他们根本不会来我们这里消费。

峨嵋山庄

一旦常客因为交通封路或堵车，导致他们的订单被延误，他们很快就会转向其他不在唐人街的中餐馆，因为那样可以更快地收到外卖。我们将不可避免地面临这样的困境。

六年的施工期间如此，新球馆投入使用后，每次活动举办时也会导致类似的延误。我们现在依赖的外卖业务占据了40%的客户群，而这些客人将大量流失。

Debbie Law，亚洲工艺品店老板

 守护唐人街，需要你发声! 

现场抗议、电话发声、签反对声明

1. 10月24日，现场抗议

2. 拨打议员电话发声

致所有市议会成员：

To All Members of City Council:

我们代表下方签署的组织，发声代表唐人街及周边地区的居民和企业，向市议会和市议员Mark Squilla发出明确声明，反对拟议的社区利益协议，并要求延迟立法进程。社区利益协议必须是与受影响的社区进行商定的协议。当前提出的CBA从未考虑到居民、企业和公民组织接下来数十年的生活和生计直接且立即会受影响的担忧。在这个过程中，我们被排除在外，这是不可接受的。

On behalf of the undersigned organizations representing the voices, residents and businesses of Chinatown and vicinity, we the undersigned issue a clear statement opposing the proposed Community Benefits Agreement and request City Council and Councilmember Mark Squilla to delay the legislative timeline. A Community Benefits Agreement must be negotiated with the impacted community. The proposed CBA never included the concerns of residents, businesses and civic organizations whose lives and livelihoods will be directly and immediately impacted for decades. Our exclusion from this process is unacceptable.

拟议的CBA未能解决以下核心问题：

The proposed CBA fails to address the following core issues:

1. 尽管唐人街是受影响最严重的社区，但社区利益协议（CBA）中的5000万美元，不到10%将用于唐人街。这笔资金不足项目价值的0.5%——对于预期的租金和住房成本上涨、小型企业流失和失业、交通和施工带来的严重困扰，以及对唐人街基本宜居性的影响来说，这笔金额显然不够。

1. Less than 10 percent of the $50 million within the CBA will go toward Chinatown, despite it being the most impacted community. This money is less than half of 1% of the value of the project – an amount that is inadequate for the anticipated rise in rent and housing costs, small business displacement and job losses, traffic and construction nightmares, and impact on Chinatown’s basic liveability.

2. 没有资金用于住房和租金救助，也没有专门为唐人街及该地区受影响的企业分配住房和租金补助资金。

2. No money is allocated for housing and rent relief, and no money for housing and rent relief is directed toward Chinatown and impacted businesses in the area.

3. 一项社区影响研究报告1显示，唐人街的600家企业，超过一半将因篮球馆而受到负面影响。然而，通过CBA分配的资金甚至无法覆盖一家普通企业一天的运营成本。

3. A Community Impact Study reported that more than half of the 600 businesses in Chinatown would suffer as a result of the arena. Yet the funding allocated via the CBA wouldn’t even cover the cost of a single day of work in a typical business.

   a. 在施工期间，仅有160万美元被分配给受影响的小型企业。这相当于在六年的施工噩梦期间，每家企业每月只获得37美元的援助。

  a.Only $1.6 million is allocated for small businesses impacted during construction. That works out to $37 per month in assistance per business during six years of construction nightmares.

   b. CBA仅仅分配了300万美元用于一项小额贷款项目，但该计划要到2032年才能启动。这相当于每家企业每年仅获得166美元。

   b. The CBA allocates a paltry $3 million in a small lending program that doesn’t start until 2032. This amounts to $166 per business per year.

4. 大多数资金将在数年后才能启动，如果费城76人队未能履行协议或在项目管理上表现不佳，没有任何保护唐人街或其他社区的措施。

4. Most of the funds won’t start for years, and there are no protections for Chinatown or any other neighborhood if the Sixers fail to live up to their agreement or turn out to be poor managers of this project.

5. 市长的行政部门在2024年度多次拒绝了与唐人街会面的会议请求，即便是最基本的最新情况告知，他们也没有向关心此事的唐人街居民提供。他们没有提供中文材料，违反了本市的语言获取规定。

5. The mayor’s Administration refused multiple requests for meetings throughout the 2024 calendar year, failing to provide even basic updates to concerned Chinatown residents. No materials have been provided in Chinese, violating the language access mandate of the City.

受影响区域的社区居民无论身处何地，都应享有公平和包容的过程。我们敦促市议会尊重我们社区的声音，放缓立法进程，直到社区的意见得到充分采纳，并且我们的担忧得到妥善解决。

Community residents of impacted areas deserve a fair and inclusive process no matter where we live. We ask Council to respect the voices of our neighborhood and slow down the legislative process until such time as community voices are adequately included and our concerns are appropriately addressed.

签名

Signed