Daily News | Prosecutors zoom in on Kenyatta Johnson’s Royal Theater zoning bill in federal bribery trial
Deena Kobell stood in front of her home across the street from the dilapidated Royal Theater on South Street in October 2014 and told City Councilmember Kenyatta Johnson she had concerns about a plan to turn it into a towering apartment building.
Kobell, a labor attorney who has lived on the 1500 block of Kater Street since 2010, testified on the ninth day of Johnson’s federal bribery trial as prosecutors sought to show that Johnson backed Universal’s development plan over the objection of some constituents. It wasn’t that she didn’t want to see the Royal Theater developed, she said. Once revered as South Street’s gleaming movie palace and cultural hub for Black Philadelphia, the building had stood as a dilapidated husk for decades with bricks falling from the walls, plants growing through the masonry, and people dumping garbage and using drugs in the run-down lot.
Throughout the trial, the defense has pushed back on any suggestion that the Royal redevelopment plan was unpopular in Johnson’s district and noted that several of the most prominent business associations in South Philadelphia also supported Universal and Dranoff’s plans.
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