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File #: 020193    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: ADOPTED
File created: 3/21/2002 In control: CITY COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 3/21/2002
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. 302 also sometimes identified by house number and street address as 1339 West Poplar street; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Ben Magness and Phyllis Magness 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. 02019300.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. 302 also sometimes identified by house number and street address as 1339 West Poplar street; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Ben Magness and Phyllis Magness 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. 302 also sometimes identified by house number and street address as 1339 West Poplar street (the "Property"). The area of said Property is bounded as follows:

Parcel No. 302 (1339 West Poplar street).

ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground located in the Twentieth Ward of the City of Philadelphia with the buildings and improvements thereon erected beginning at a point of intersection of the northerly side of Poplar street (fifty feet wide) and the westerly side of Watts street (forty feet wide); Thence extending westward along the northerly side of said Poplar street a distance of eighteen feet eleven and three-eighths inches, more or less, to a point; Thence extending northward along a line at right angles to Poplar street sixty feet one and seven-eighths inches to a point on the southerly side of a four feet wide alley; Thence extending eastward along the southerly side of sa...

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