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File #: 040435    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: ADOPTED
File created: 4/29/2004 In control: CITY COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 4/29/2004
Title: Approving the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement of the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the West Philadelphia Redevelopment Area identified by house numbers and street addresses as 934, 942, 1000 & 1045 Belmont avenue; 4216 West Girard avenue; 4219, 4220 & 4231 Pennsgrove street; and 877, 883, 885 & 926 North Forty-second street; authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Belmont Affordable Housing VI, Limited Partnership and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement.
Sponsors: Councilmember Blackwell
Indexes: REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
Title
Approving the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement of the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the West Philadelphia Redevelopment Area identified by house numbers and street addresses as 934, 942, 1000 & 1045 Belmont avenue; 4216 West Girard avenue; 4219, 4220 & 4231 Pennsgrove street; and 877, 883, 885 & 926 North Forty-second street; authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Belmont Affordable Housing VI, Limited Partnership and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement.
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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 (hereinafter "Commission") has on August 20, 1963, certified the West Philadelphia Redevelopment Area as a redevelopment area and has completed a detailed redevelopment area plan for the West Philadelphia Redevelopment Area dated March 16, 1962, as amended (hereinafter "West Philadelphia"); and

WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared a redevelopment contract which includes, inter alia, a portion of West Philadelphia identified by house numbers and street addresses as 934, 942, 1000 & 1045 Belmont avenue; 4216 West Girard avenue; 4219, 4220 & 4231 Pennsgrove street; and 877, 883, 885 & 926 North Forty-second street (the "Properties"). The areas of the Properties are bounded as follows:

934 Belmont avenue

ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situated in the Sixth Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning on the west side of Belmont avenue at the distance of two hundred fifty five feet four and one-quarter inches northward from the north side of Merion avenue (fifty feet wide); Containing in front or breadth on the said Belmont avenue nineteen feet and extending...

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