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File #: 040672    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: ADOPTED
File created: 6/10/2004 In control: CITY COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 6/10/2004
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 Eastwick Urban Renewal Area, designated as Parcel No. F (Revised) also sometimes identified by house number and street address as 6100-6240 Eastwick avenue and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Inglis Housing Corporation and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract.
Sponsors: Council President Verna, Councilmember Blackwell
Indexes: EASTWICK URBAN RENEWAL AREA, REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY

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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 Eastwick Urban Renewal Area, designated as Parcel No. F (Revised) also sometimes identified by house number and street address as 6100-6240 Eastwick avenue and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Inglis Housing Corporation 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 (hereinafter "Redevelopment Authority") has prepared and submitted an urban renewal plan and a redevelopment proposal for the redevelopment of the Eastwick Urban Renewal Area,  (hereinafter "Eastwick"), which said plan and proposal were approved by Ordinance of the Council on May 26, 1958, as amended; and

 

                     WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared a redevelopment contract for a portion of the Eastwick Urban Renewal Area, designated as Parcel No. F (Revised) also sometimes identified by house number and street address as 6100-6240 Eastwick avenue (hereinafter "Parcel F").  The area of said Parcel F is bounded as follows:

 

Parcel F (Revised) (6100-6240 Eastwick avenue)

 

ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situated in the Fortieth Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning at the intersection of the southwesterly side of Sixty-first street (one hundred eight feet wide) and southeasterly side of Eastwick avenue (eighty feet wide);  Thence extending south sixty degrees fourteen minutes fourteen seconds east, along the southwesterly side of said Sixty-first street, a distance of one hundred twenty six feet to a point;  Thence extending south fifteen degrees fourteen minutes eight seconds east, the distance of one hundred fifteen feet eleven and five-eighths inches to a point;  Thence extending south twenty nine degrees forty five minutes fifty two seconds west along a line parallel to the said Eastwick avenue, six hundred sixty one feet ten and three-eighths inches to a point;  Thence extending south thirty six degrees three minutes eleven seconds west, a distance of one hundred feet five and one-sixteenth inches to a point;  Thence extending south twenty degrees thirty nine minutes twenty nine seconds west one hundred one feet one and one-eighth inches to a point on the northwesterly right-of-way line of the Chester Branch of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad;  Thence extending south twenty nine degrees forty five minutes fifty two seconds west along said right-of-way line, a distance of two hundred twenty five feet one-quarter inch to a point;  Thence extending south seventy four degrees forty five minutes fifty two seconds west, the distance of thirty eight feet two and one-quarter inches to a point;  Thence extending north sixty six degrees twenty two minutes twenty two seconds west, the distance of one hundred eighty seven feet seven-eighths of an inch to a point on the southeasterly side of said Eastwick avenue;  Thence extending north twenty nine degrees forty five minutes fifty two seconds east along the southeasterly side of Eastwick avenue, one thousand two hundred fifteen feet six and one-quarter inches to the first mentioned point and place of beginning.

 

                     The said redevelopment contract is in substantial conformity with the urban renewal plan and the redevelopment proposal approved by the Council; and

 

                     WHEREAS, Inglis Housing Corporation desires to enter into the said redevelopment contract for Parcel F.

 

                     RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, That the redevelopment contract submitted by the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia (hereinafter "Redevelopment Authority") for the redevelopment of that portion of the Eastwick Urban Renewal Area, as hereinabove more particularly described, is hereby approved.  City Council authorizes the Redevelopment Authority to proceed with minor changes in substantial conformity with the hereby approved redevelopment contract.  The Redevelopment Authority is authorized to execute the hereby approved redevelopment contract with Inglis Housing Corporation (hereinafter "Redeveloper").  The Redevelopment Authority and the Redeveloper are authorized to take such action in substantial conformity to the redevelopment contract as may be necessary to carry it out.

 

                     RESOLVED, The Redevelopment Authority and the Redeveloper are authorized to prepare or cause to be prepared for introduction into the Council such ordinances or resolutions as may be necessary for changes in zoning, streets, alleys, public ways, street patterns, location and relocation of public utilities, and related items which are required in order to facilitate and effectuate the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement hereby approved.  Accordingly, the Council hereby declares that it will cooperate in helping to carry out the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement and requests the various officials, departments, boards and agencies of the City having administrative responsibilities in the premises likewise to cooperate to such end and to exercise their respective functions and powers in a manner consistent with the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement.

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