Center City
Chinatown: City Planning Commission and Residents Discuss Future of Roundhouse Site
Following the PPD headquarters move, city-wide outreach has begun to decide what to do with the vacant land parcel. [Read More]
Chinatown
Chinatown
Chinatown: Shoppers and Businesses Adjust to Plastic Bag Ban
Story by Kent Kuo Once the City of Philadelphia implemented its plastic bag ban on Oct. 1, Philadelphia shop owners and customers began to see actual changes inside the city’s stores. “Since the day we [Read More]
Arts and Entertainment
Chinatown: AAI Celebrates New Mural With Party on Pearl Street
The Asian Arts Initiative unveils a new mural and invites the community for the Pearl Street Block Party. [Read More]
Business
Chinatown: Grocery Business Stays Robust Despite Threat of COVID-19 Delta Variant
Story by Alan Lu Heng Fa Food Market, the largest grocery store in Philadelphia’s Chinatown, has remained financially successful despite increasing worries around the COVID-19 delta variant. The Chinatown Development Corporation estimated that the average [Read More]
Center City
Chinatown: Businesses and Shoppers React to Plastic Bag Ban
Story by Kent Kuo With the second phase of Philadelphia’s plastic bag ban starting on Oct. 1, corner store staff and customers in Chinatown are preparing for the change. The bag ban prohibits stores from [Read More]
Chinatown
Chinatown: Lunar New Year Celebrations Continue Amid Pandemic
There might be less people in the streets this year in Philadelphia’s Chinatown, but the community still found ways to celebrate the Lunar New Year in February amid the pandemic and the anti-Asian discrimination that [Read More]
Chinatown
Chinatown: Supporting Philly’s AAPI Community During Rise in Anti-Asian Violence
Cynthia Choi of Chinese for Affirmative Action said the COVID-19 surge in hate crimes has Asian people in America fearing for their lives. “The one thing you’ve been allowed to do in the last year is take [Read More]
Center City
Chinatown: Protestors Demonstrate Outside ICE Office, Inside Bus Station
Members of the Philadelphia Workers Solidarity Network protested outside the Immigration and Custom Enforcement agency office at 114 N. Eighth St on Saturday, Sept. 14, . The target of the protest was not just the [Read More]
Chinatown
Podcast: Chinatown Teen Support Group Looks For Safe Environment
This episode of Philadelphia Neighbors explores the creation and continuance of a teen support group in Philadelphia’s Chinatown neighborhood. The host follows two doctors to discuss the reasons they formed a group for students and [Read More]
Center City
Chinatown: Committee Rejects Proposal to Legalize Unregistered Apartments
The Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation (PCDC)’s planning committee rejected a proposal to legalize unregistered apartments above Ly Jen Therapy Salons at 121 N. 11th St. on March 12. The current owners of the building presented [Read More]