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File #: 110879    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: ADOPTED
File created: 12/1/2011 In control: CITY COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 12/8/2011
Title: Approving the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the Upland Urban Renewal Area, designated as Parcel No. 4 and also sometimes identified by house number and street address as 4743 Upland street; authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Cheick Aba Dembele and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement.
Sponsors: Councilmember Blackwell
Indexes: REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, UPLAND URBAN RENEWAL AREA
Attachments: 1. Signature11087900.pdf
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Approving the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the Upland Urban Renewal Area, designated as Parcel No. 4 and also sometimes identified by house number and street address as 4743 Upland street; authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Cheick Aba Dembele and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement.
 
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      WHEREAS, The Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority (hereinafter "Redevelopment Authority") has prepared and submitted an urban renewal plan and a redevelopment proposal for the redevelopment of the Upland Urban Renewal Area (hereinafter “Upland”), which said plan and  proposal were approved by Ordinance of the Council on June 19, 1972, as amended; and
      WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared a disposition supplement providing, inter alia, for development controls and regulations imposed upon the redeveloper; and
      WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared a redevelopment contract for a portion of Upland, designated as Parcel No. 4 and also sometimes identified by house number and street address as 4743 Upland street (hereinafter "Parcel No. 4”).  The area of Parcel No. 4 is bounded as follows:
Parcel No. 4 (4743 Upland street).
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situated in the Twenty-seventh Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning at a point on the westerly side of Upland street (forty-four feet wide) at the distance of three hundred fifteen feet south from the south side of Forty-seventh street (seventy feet wide);  Containing in front or breadth on the said side of Upland street fifteen feet and extending of width in length or depth westward between parallel lines at right angles to the said Upland street sixty-two feet to a point on the east side of a certain three feet six inches wide alley that extends northward communicating with a certain four feet wide alley that extends eastward into the said Upland street and further northward into the said Forty-seventh street.
      The said redevelopment contract is in substantial conformity with the amended urban renewal plan and the amended redevelopment proposal approved by the Council; and
      WHEREAS, Cheick Aba Dembele desires to enter into the said redevelopment contract for Parcel No. 4.
      RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, That the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement submitted by the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority (hereinafter "Redevelopment Authority") for the redevelopment of that portion of the Upland  Urban Renewal Area, as hereinabove more particularly described, is hereby approved.  City Council authorizes the Redevelopment Authority to proceed with minor changes in substantial conformity with the hereby approved redevelopment contract and disposition supplement.  The Redevelopment Authority is authorized to execute the hereby approved redevelopment contract with Cheick Aba Dembele (hereinafter "Redeveloper").  The Redevelopment Authority and the Redeveloper are authorized to take such action in substantial conformity to the redevelopment contract as may be necessary to carry it out.
      RESOLVED, The Redevelopment Authority and the Redeveloper are authorized to prepare or cause to be prepared for introduction into the Council such ordinances or resolutions as may be necessary for changes in zoning, streets, alleys, public ways, street patterns, location and relocation of public utilities, and related items which are required in order to facilitate and effectuate the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement hereby approved.  Accordingly, the Council hereby declares that it will cooperate in helping to carry out the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement and requests the various officials, departments, boards and agencies of the City having administrative responsibilities in the premises likewise to cooperate to such end and to exercise their respective functions and powers in a manner consistent with the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement.
 
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