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File #: 150709    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: ADOPTED
File created: 9/17/2015 In control: CITY COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 10/1/2015
Title: Approving the redevelopment contract of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the Mantua Urban Renewal Area, identified by house number and street address as 3509 Haverford avenue including 3502 Mount Vernon street; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Westview Development Partners, LLC and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract.
Sponsors: Councilmember Blackwell
Indexes: MANTUA URBAN RENEWAL AREA, REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
Attachments: 1. Resolution No. 15070900.pdf, 2. Signature15070900.pdf
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Approving the redevelopment contract of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the Mantua Urban Renewal Area, identified by house number and street address as 3509 Haverford avenue including 3502 Mount Vernon street; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Westview Development Partners, LLC 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 Mantua Urban Renewal Area (hereinafter "Mantua"), 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 Mantua, identified by house number and street address as 3509 Haverford avenue including 3502 Mount Vernon street (the "Property"). The area of the Property is bounded as follows:
3509 Haverford avenue (Including 3502 Mount Vernon street)

ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situated in the Twenty-fourth Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning on the north side of Haverford avenue (sixty feet wide) at the distance of seventy-one feet four inches westward from the west side of Thirty-fifth street (sixty feet wide); Thence extending northward on a line at right angles to said Haverford avenue ninety-five feet to a point at the head of a certain four feet wide alley extending northward into Mount Vernon street (thirty feet wide); Thence extending westward along the head of said alley on a line parallel to said Haverford avenue eight inches to a point; Thence extending northward along the west side of said alley on a line at right angles to said Haverford avenue eighty feet to a point on the south side of Mount Vernon s...

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