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File #: 160621    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: ADOPTED
File created: 6/9/2016 In control: CITY COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 6/16/2016
Title: Approving the redevelopment contract of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the 44th and Aspen Urban Renewal Area, identified by house numbers and street addresses as 753 Brooklyn street and 4206-4208 Lancaster avenue; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with the James Shuler Memorial Foundation and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract.
Sponsors: Councilmember Blackwell
Indexes: 44th & ASPEN URBAN RENEWAL AREA, REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
Attachments: 1. Resolution No. 16062100.pdf, 2. Signature16062100.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 44th and Aspen Urban Renewal Area, identified by house numbers and street addresses as 753 Brooklyn street and 4206-4208 Lancaster avenue; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with the James Shuler Memorial Foundation 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 44th and Aspen Urban Renewal Area (hereinafter "44th & Aspen"), which said plan and proposal were approved by Ordinance of the Council on June 12, 2003, as amended; and

WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared a redevelopment contract for a portion of 44th & Aspen, identified by house numbers and street addresses 753 Brooklyn street and 4206-4208 Lancaster avenue (collectively, the "Properties"). The area of the Properties is bounded as follows:

753 Brooklyn street.

ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground, with the buildings and appurtenances thereto, if any, situate in the Sixth Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning at a point on the easterly side of Brooklyn street (fifty feet wide), said point being located seventy-seven and six tenths feet northerly from the intersection of the said side of Brooklyn street and the northerly side of Aspen street (sixty feet wide) and extending; Thence, containing in front or breadth on the said Brooklyn street sixteen and ninety-three hundredths feet and extending that width eastward between lines, parallel with said Aspen street, sixty-six and ninety-seven hundredths feet, the southerly line thereof being along the northerly side of a certain three and twelve hundredths feet wide alley which extends eas...

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