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File #: 251081    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: ADOPTED
File created: 12/4/2025 In control: CITY COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 12/11/2025
Title: Authorizing the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority to execute and deliver to the Philadelphia Land Bank deeds conveying title to various properties located in the 4th Councilmanic District, including on the following streets: N. 58th Street, N. Dover Street, W. Seltzer Street, W. Silver Street, W. Sterner Street, and W. Lehigh Avenue, pursuant to the requirements of the Commonwealth Land Bank Act.
Sponsors: Councilmember Jones
Indexes: LAND BANK, REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
Attachments: 1. Resolution No. 25108100, 2. Signature 25108100

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Authorizing the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority to execute and deliver to the Philadelphia Land Bank deeds conveying title to various properties located in the 4th Councilmanic District, including on the following streets: N. 58th Street, N. Dover Street, W. Seltzer Street, W. Silver Street, W. Sterner Street, and W. Lehigh Avenue, pursuant to the requirements of the Commonwealth Land Bank Act.

 

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WHEREAS, Act 153 of 2012, 68 Pa. C.S.A. § 2101, et seq. (the "Land Bank Act") authorized the City to create a land bank in accordance with the Land Bank Act; and

 

WHEREAS, The City, in Bill No. 130156-A (approved December 18, 2013), authorized the creation of the Philadelphia Land Bank; and

 

WHEREAS, Under Section 2109 of the Land Bank Act, 68 Pa. C.S.A. § 2109(d)(3), a redevelopment authority, with the consent of the local governing body and without a redevelopment contract, may convey title to certain redevelopment authority property to a land bank; and

 

WHEREAS, The properties identified in this Resolution qualify for transfer from the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority to the Philadelphia Land Bank as provided by Section 2109 of the Land Bank Act; and

 

WHEREAS, The transfer of the properties identified in this Resolution to the Philadelphia Land Bank will promote the public purposes for which the City created the Philadelphia Land Bank; now, therefore, be it

 

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, AS FOLLOWS:

 

SECTION 1. The Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority is hereby authorized to execute and deliver to the Philadelphia Land Bank, without consideration, deeds conveying title to the properties listed in Exhibit "A" hereto.

 

 

EXHIBIT "A"

4th Councilmanic District Properties

 

140 N. 58th Street

2734 N. Dover Street

2651 W. Seltzer Street

2621 W. Silver Street

2624 W. Silver Street

2746 W. Silver Street

2608 W. Sterner Street

2611 W. Sterner Street

2632 W. Sterner Street

2646 W. Sterner Street

2654 W. Sterner Street

2700 W. Sterner Street

2716 W. Sterner Street

2719 W. Sterner Street

2625 W. Lehigh Avenue

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