Title
Approving the redevelopment contract of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the Cecil B. Moore Avenue Urban Renewal Area, identified by house numbers and street addresses as 1725-1727 Cecil B. Moore avenue and 1735 Cecil B. Moore avenue; authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with HMZ One LLC and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract.
Body
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 Cecil B. Moore Avenue Urban Renewal Area (hereinafter Cecil B. Moore), which said plan and proposal were approved by Ordinance of the Council on December 22, 1987; and
WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared a redevelopment contract for a portion of Cecil B. Moore, identified by house numbers and street addresses as 1725-1727 Cecil B. Moore avenue and 1735 Cecil B. Moore avenue (the Properties). The area of the Properties is bounded as follows:
1725-1727 Cecil B. Moore avenue.
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situated in the Forty-seventh Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning at a point on the north side of Cecil B. Moore avenue (sixty feet wide) at the distance of twenty feet westward from the west side of Bouvier street (forty feet wide); Thence extending westward along the north side of the said Cecil B. Moore avenue, thirty-eight feet eleven inches to a point; Thence extending northward at right angles to the said Cecil B. Moore avenue; ninety-four feet, to a point at the head of a certain four feet wide alley which extends northward to a point; Thence extending eastward; parallel to the said Cecil B. Moore avenue; partially crossing the head of said four feet wide alley, eighteen feet eleven inches to a point; Thence extending southward parallel to the said Bouvier street; three feet, to a point, crossing the head of a certain two feet eight inches wide alley which extends eastward into said Bouvier street; Thence extending eastward; parallel to the said Cecil B. Moore avenue; also along the south side of said two feet eight inches wide alley, twenty feet to a point; Thence extending southward parallel to the said Bouvier street; ninety-one feet, to the first mentioned point and place of beginning.
1735 Cecil B. Moore avenue.
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situated in the Forty-seventh Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning at a point on the north side of Cecil B. Moore avenue (sixty feet wide) at the distance of forty feet eastward from the east side of Eighteenth street (fifty feet wide); Containing in front or breadth along the north side of the said Cecil B. Moore avenue twenty feet and extending of that width in length and depth between parallel lines at right angles to said Cecil B. Moore avenue seventy-nine feet.
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, HMZ One LLC 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 Cecil B. Moore Avenue 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 HMZ One LLC (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.
End