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File #: 050223    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: ADOPTED
File created: 3/17/2005 In control: CITY COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 3/17/2005
Title: Approving the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement of the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the Model Cities Urban Renewal Area, designated as Parcel No. 427 also sometimes identified by house numbers and street addresses as 647-667 North Tenth street including 931 Wallace street and 926-930 Melon street; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Tucker House and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement.
Sponsors: Councilmember Clarke
Indexes: MODEL CITIES URBAN RENEWAL AREA, REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
Attachments: 1. Resolution No. 05022300.pdf
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Approving the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement of the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the Model Cities Urban Renewal Area, designated as Parcel No. 427 also sometimes identified by house numbers and street addresses as 647-667 North Tenth street including 931 Wallace street and 926-930 Melon street; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Tucker House and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement.

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WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia (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, designated as Parcel No. 427 also sometimes identified by house number and street address as 647-667 North Tenth street including 931 Wallace street and 926-930 Melon street (the "Property"). The area of said Property is bounded as follows:


Parcel No. 427 (647-667 North Tenth street including 931 Wallace street and 926-930 Melon street).


ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situated in the Fourteenth Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning at the intersection of the northerly side of Wallace street (fifty feet wide) and the easterly side of Tenth street (fifty feet wide); Thence extending in a northerly direction along the said side of Tenth street one hundred ninety nine feet three inches to a point on the southerly side of Melon street (fifty feet wide); Thence extending in an easterly direction along the said side of Melon street one hundre...

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