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File #: 190372    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: ADOPTED
File created: 5/2/2019 In control: CITY COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 5/16/2019
Title: Approving the redevelopment contract of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the Germantown Redevelopment Area, identified by house number and street address as 65 West Penn 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.
Sponsors: Councilmember Bass
Indexes: GERMANTOWN REDEVELOPMENT AREA, REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
Attachments: 1. Resolution No. 19037200, 2. Signature19037200
Title
Approving the redevelopment contract of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the Germantown Redevelopment Area, identified by house number and street address as 65 West Penn 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, In accordance with the provisions of the Urban Redevelopment Law, being the Act of May 24, 1945, P.L. 991, as amended and supplemented, the City Planning Commission of the City of Philadelphia has on September 10, 1963, certified the Germantown Redevelopment Area as a redevelopment area and has completed a detailed redevelopment area plan for the Germantown Redevelopment Area dated July 11, 1967, as amended (hereinafter "Germantown"); and
WHEREAS, The Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority (hereinafter "Redevelopment Authority") has prepared a redevelopment contract for a portion of Germantown, identified by house number and street address as 65 West Penn street (the "Property"). The area of the Property is bounded as follows:
65 West Penn street.
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground with the building and appurtenances thereto, if any, situate in the Twelfth Ward of the City of Philadelphia, bounded and described as follows: beginning at a point, a corner formed by the intersection of the northeast side of Greene street with the northwest side of Penn street; Thence extending northwestward along the said northeast side of Greene street sixty-nine feet six and three-eighths inches to a point; Thence extending northeastward parallel with the said Penn street one hundred twenty-four feet four and one-quarter inches to a point; Thence extending southeastward parallel with the said Greene street sixty-nine feet three and five-eighths inches to a point on the northwest side of Penn street; Thence extending s...

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