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Approving the redevelopment contract of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the Grays Ferry Urban Renewal Area identified by house number and street address as 2600-2602 Wharton street; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Neighborhood Gardens Trust 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 Grays Ferry Urban Renewal Area (hereinafter "Grays Ferry"), 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 Grays Ferry, identified by house number and street address as 2600-2602 Wharton street (the "Property"). The area of the Property is bounded as follows:
2600-2602 Wharton street.
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground with the building and appurtenances thereto, if any, beginning at the intersection of the southerly side of Wharton street and the westerly side of Twenty-sixth street (fifty feet wide); Thence extending in a southerly direction along the westerly side of Twenty-sixth street, sixty-two feet zero inches, more or less, to a point; Thence extending in a westerly direction along a line of property now or late of Joseph P. Bracken, twenty-eight feet zero inches, more or less, to a point thence extending in a northerly direction along another line of said Bracken property, sixty-two feet zero inches, more or less, to a point on the southerly side of Wharton street; Thence extending in an easterly direction along the southerly side of Wharton street, twenty-eight feet zero inches, more or less, to the place of beginning.
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