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Approving the redevelopment contract of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the Model Cities Urban Renewal Area, identified by house numbers and street addresses as 2108-2144 Cecil B. Moore avenue, 2105-2147 Nicholas street and 1631-1637 North Twenty-second street; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with MPower Development Corp. and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract.
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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 Model Cities Urban Renewal Area (hereinafter Model Cities), which said plan and proposal were approved by Ordinance of the Council on December 15, 1969, as amended; and
WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared a redevelopment contract for a portion of Model Cities, identified by house numbers and street addresses as 2108-2144 Cecil B. Moore avenue, 2105-2147 Nicholas street and 1631-1637 North Twenty-second street (the Properties). The area of the Properties are bounded as follows:
2108-2144 Cecil B. Moore avenue, 2105-2147 Nicholas street and 1631-1637 North Twenty-second street.
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground, situate in the Forty-seventh Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning at a point being the intersection of the southerly line of Cecil B. Moore avenue (sixty feet wide) with the easterly line of North Twenty-second street (fifty feet wide); Thence, south eleven degrees, twenty-one minutes, zero seconds west, along the easterly line of said North Twenty-second street, a distance of one hundred forty feet to a point; Thence, south seventy-eight degrees, thirty-nine minutes, zero seconds east, along the northerly line of Nicholas street (forty feet wide), a distance of three hundred twenty-seven feet to a point; Thence, north eleven degrees, twenty-one minutes, zero seconds east, a distance of one hundred forty feet to a point on the southerly side of Cecil B. Moore avenue; Thence, north seventy-eight degrees, thirty-nine minutes, zero seconds west, extending along the southerly line of Cecil B. Moore avenue, a distance of three hundred twenty-seven feet to the point and place of place of beginning.
The said redevelopment contract is in substantial conformity with the amended urban renewal plan and the amended redevelopment proposal approved by Council; and
WHEREAS, MPower Development Corp. desires to enter into the said redevelopment contract for the Properties.
RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, That the redevelopment contract submitted by the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority (hereinafter Redevelopment Authority) for the redevelopment of that portion of the Model Cities 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. The Redevelopment Authority is authorized to execute the hereby approved redevelopment contract with MPower Development Corp. (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 hereby approved. Accordingly, the Council hereby declares that it will cooperate in helping to carry out the redevelopment contract 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.
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