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File #: 050473    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: ADOPTED
File created: 5/19/2005 In control: CITY COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 5/19/2005
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 Mantua Urban Renewal Area, designated as Parcel No. 211 and also sometimes identified by house numbers and street addresses 3617-3623 Melon street and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with 1260 Housing Corporation and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement.
Sponsors: Councilmember Blackwell
Indexes: MANTUA URBAN RENEWAL AREA, REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
Attachments: 1. Resolution No. 05047300.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 Mantua Urban Renewal Area, designated as Parcel No. 211 and also sometimes identified by house numbers and street addresses 3617-3623 Melon street and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with 1260 Housing Corporation 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 Mantua Urban Renewal Area, (hereinafter "Mantua"), 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 Mantua designated as Parcel No. 211 and also sometimes identified by house numbers and street addresses 3617-3623 Melon street (the "Property"). The area of the said Property is bounded as follows:
Parcel No. 211 (3617-3623 Melon street). All that certain lot or piece of ground situated in the Twenty-fourth Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning at a point on the north side of Melon street (forty feet wide) at the distance of one hundred ninety four feet ten and one-half inches westward from the west side of North Thirty-sixth street (fifty feet wide); Containing in front or breadth along north side of the said Melon street fifty feet and extending of that width in length or depth between parallel lines at right angles to the said Melon street sixty four feet six inches.
The said redevelopment contract is in substantial conformity with the amended urban renewal plan and the amended redevelopment proposal approved by the Coun...

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