Philadelphia City Council’s Committee of the Whole voted in favor of a $1.3 billion plan for a Sixers arena in Center City during a committee meeting on Thursday morning. With four councilmembers voting against the bills package for the plan, the committee forwarded the legislation out of committee. The bills package that would bring a Sixers arena to the intersection of Market and Filbert streets at 10th and 11th streets could now receive its first reading before City Council at its stated meet