There's potentially going to be a lot of black construction workers on this project, it would be odd that they would need this project specifically but the trades have stayed horrifically segregated; the post brothers got around using union labor for their The Poplar project by hiring minority laborers. So big projects like this are the only quick way to get black men into the construction jobs they've been kept out of.

>All of these big power players seem to be focused on this dumbass market east arena when they could invest the billions into disenfranchised communities like North, west, or SW Philly.

I think you're confused what's happening, this is a proposal for a basketball arena, not a charity project. They're willing to invest in center city because they will make money by doing so, building an arena in a bad spot will not make them money.