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File #: 130600    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: ADOPTED
File created: 9/12/2013 In control: CITY COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 9/19/2013
Title: Approving the redevelopment contract of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the Model Cities Urban Renewal Area, identified by house numbers and street addresses as 2108-2144 Cecil B. Moore avenue, 2105-2147 Nicholas street and 1631-1637 North Twenty-second street; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with MPower Development Corp. and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract.
Sponsors: Council President Clarke, Councilmember Greenlee
Indexes: MODEL CITIES URBAN RENEWAL AREA, REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
Attachments: 1. Signature13060000.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 Model Cities Urban Renewal Area, identified by house numbers and street addresses as 2108-2144 Cecil B. Moore avenue, 2105-2147 Nicholas street and 1631-1637 North Twenty-second street; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with MPower Development Corp. 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 Model Cities Urban Renewal Area (hereinafter "Model Cities"), 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 Model Cities, identified by house numbers and street addresses as 2108-2144 Cecil B. Moore avenue, 2105-2147 Nicholas street and 1631-1637 North Twenty-second street (the "Properties"). The area of the Properties are bounded as follows:

2108-2144 Cecil B. Moore avenue, 2105-2147 Nicholas street and 1631-1637 North Twenty-second street.

ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground, situate in the Forty-seventh Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning at a point being the intersection of the southerly line of Cecil B. Moore avenue (sixty feet wide) with the easterly line of North Twenty-second street (fifty feet wide); Thence, south eleven degrees, twenty-one minutes, zero seconds west, along the easterly line of said North Twenty-second street, a distance of one hundred forty feet to a point; Thence, south seventy-eight degrees, thirty-nine minutes, zero seconds east, along the northerly line of Nicholas street (forty feet wide), a distance of three hundred twenty-seven...

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