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File #: 250609    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: IN COUNCIL - FINAL PASSAGE
File created: 6/5/2025 In control: CITY COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action:
Title: Approving the redevelopment contract of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the University City Unit 5 Urban Renewal Area, identified by house numbers and street addresses as 3223-3233 Race Street and 213 North Thirty-third Street, and 215-217 North Thirty-third 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 Gauthier
Indexes: PHILADELPHIA REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
Attachments: 1. Reolution No. 25060900
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Approving the redevelopment contract of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the University City Unit 5 Urban Renewal Area, identified by house numbers and street addresses as 3223-3233 Race Street and 213 North Thirty-third Street, and 215-217 North Thirty-third 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, The Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority (hereinafter "Redevelopment Authority") has prepared and submitted an urban renewal plan and a redevelopment proposal for the redevelopment of University City Unit 5 Urban Renewal Area (hereinafter "University City Unit 5"), which said plan and proposal were approved by Ordinance of the Council on February 8, 1967; and

WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared a redevelopment contract for a portion of University City Unit 5, identified as house numbers and street addresses as 3223-3233 Race Street and 213 North Thirty-third Street, and 215-217 North Thirty-third Street (collectively, the "Properties"). The area of the Properties is bounded as follows:

3223-3233 Race Street and 213 North Thirty-third Street. Beginning at the intersection of the northerly side of Race Street and the easterly side of Thirty-third Street; Thence extending in a northerly direction along the easterly side of Thirty-third Street one hundred fifty feet zero inches more or less to a point; Thence extending in an easterly direction along a line of property now or late of Keystone Index Card Co. one hundred six feet ten and seven-eighths inches more or less to a point; Thence extending in a southerly direction along another line of said Keystone property one foot eleven inches more or less to a point; Thence extending in an easterly direction along another line of said Keystone prope...

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