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File #: 040274    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: ADOPTED
File created: 3/18/2004 In control: CITY COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 3/18/2004
Title: Approving the redevelopment contract of the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the Grays Ferry Urban Renewal Area designated as Parcel No. 102 also sometimes identified by respective house number and street address as 2921-2923 Gerritt street; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Louis Zahner and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract.
Sponsors: Council President Verna, Councilmember Blackwell
Indexes: GRAYS FERRY URBAN RENEWAL AREA, REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
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Approving the redevelopment contract of the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the Grays Ferry Urban Renewal Area designated as Parcel No. 102 also sometimes identified by respective house number and street address as 2921-2923 Gerritt street; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Louis Zahner and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract.
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WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia (hereafter "Redevelopment Authority") has prepared and submitted an urban renewal plan and a redevelopment proposal for the redevelopment of the Grays Ferry Urban Renewal Area, 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 the Grays Ferry Urban Renewal Area, designated as Parcel No. 102 also sometimes identified by house number and street address as 2921-2923 Gerritt street (hereinafter "Property"). The area of said Property is bounded as follows:

Parcel No. 102 (2921-2923 Gerritt street)

ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground located in the Thirty-sixth Ward of the City of Philadelphia situated at a point on the northerly side of Gerritt street (thirty feet wide) at the distance of one hundred forty three feet westward from the westerly side of Twenty-ninth street (fifty feet wide); Containing in front or breadth on the said side of Gerritt street twenty eight feet and extending of that width in length or depth between parallel lines at right angles to said Gerritt street forty five feet to a point on the south side of a certain three feet wide alley that extends west and east into the said Twenty-ninth street.

The said redevelopment contract is in substantial conformity with the urban renewal plan and the redevelopm...

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