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File #: 140529    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: ADOPTED
File created: 6/5/2014 In control: CITY COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 6/12/2014
Title: Approving the redevelopment contract of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the New Kensington-Fishtown Urban Renewal Area, identified by house number and street address as 1306-1308 Crease street; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with James Staab and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract.
Sponsors: Council President Clarke, Councilmember Greenlee
Indexes: NEW KENSINGTON - FISHTOWN URBAN RENEWAL AREA
Attachments: 1. Resolution No. 14052900.pdf, 2. Signature14052900.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 New Kensington-Fishtown Urban Renewal Area, identified by house number and street address as 1306-1308 Crease street; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with James Staab 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 New Kensington-Fishtown Urban Renewal Area (hereinafter "New Kensington-Fishtown"), which said plan and proposal were approved by Ordinance of the Council on June 13, 1997, as amended; and

WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared a redevelopment contract for a portion of New Kensington-Fishtown, identified by house number and street address as 1306-1308 Crease street (the "Property"). The area of the Property is bounded as follows:

1306-1308 Crease street.

ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situated in the Eighteenth Ward of the City of Philadelphia situate at the intersection formed by the southwesterly side of Crease street (thirty feet wide) and the southeasterly side of Mercer street (thirteen feet wide); Thence extending southwestward along the said Mercer street forty-eight feet four inches to a point; Thence extending eastward on a line parallel with the said Crease street thirty-seven feet four and seven eighths inches to a point; Thence extending northeastward forty-eight feet four and one-quarter inches to a point on the southerly side of said Crease street; Thence extending westward along the southwesterly side of the said Crease street thirty-six feet to the first mentioned point and place of beginning.

The said redevelopment contract is in substantial conformity with the amen...

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