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File #: 070583    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: ADOPTED
File created: 6/14/2007 In control: CITY COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 6/14/2007
Title: Approving the redevelopment contract of the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the Grays Ferry Urban Renewal Area designated as Parcel No. 161 also sometimes identified by respective house number and street address as 1317 South Dover street; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with William T. Smith and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract.
Sponsors: Council President Verna, Councilmember Blackwell
Indexes: GRAYS FERRY URBAN RENEWAL AREA, REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
Attachments: 1. Resolution No. 07058300.pdf
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Approving the redevelopment contract of the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the Grays Ferry Urban Renewal Area designated as Parcel No. 161 also sometimes identified by respective house number and street address as 1317 South Dover street; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with William T. Smith and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract.
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WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia (hereafter "Redevelopment Authority") has prepared and submitted an urban renewal plan and a redevelopment proposal for the redevelopment of the Grays Ferry Urban Renewal Area, 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 the Grays Ferry Urban Renewal Area, designated as Parcel No. 161 also sometimes identified by house number and street address as 1317 South Dover street (hereinafter "Property"). The area of said Property is bounded as follows:
Parcel No. 161 (1317 South Dover street).
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situated in the Thirty-sixth Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning at a point on the east side of Dover street (thirty feet wide) at the distance of one hundred twenty feet southward from the south side of Wharton street (fifty feet wide); Containing in front or breadth on the said Dover street fourteen feet and extending of that width in length or depth eastward between parallel lines at right angles to the said Dover street fifty feet to a point in the middle of a certain four feet wide alley that extends Northward communicating with a certain three feet wide alley that extends westward into the said Dover street and eastward into Newkirk street.
The said redevelopment contract is in substantial ...

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