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🎨 Bok Building-style art studios approved on 13th St 🥡 Chinatown hot spot eyes Passyunk 🎤 No comedy club on Broad?

Plus, there's no way the Eagles could ever leave South Philly ... right?!

Happy Thursday, South Philly.

In about a billion years, the sun’s light will burn out.

That’ll be a shame for PennDOT, because they’ll have to finish I-95 construction in the dark.

In this week’s Scoop …

  • A cranky zoning board has nixed plans for a comedy club near Broad and Ellsworth, but hopefully the project isn’t totally dead yet.

  • That same zoning board approved plans for another Bok Building-style artist enclave that will bring life to an old church.

  • A Chinatown hot spot is aiming to open an East Passyunk extension.

  • And a lot more.

Now, on to this week’s top story …

🦅 🫣 Could the Eagles leave South Philly?

Alarm bells went off late last week when the Eagles sent out a survey to fans about potential renovations to Lincoln Financial Field — or, notably, “the possibility of a brand new stadium in the region.”

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