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File #: 040682    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 and disposition supplement of the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the West Philadelphia Redevelopment Area identified by house numbers and street addresses as 6146 Master street, 5935 Media street, 5542 West Thompson street and 1313 & 1324 North Fifty-ninth street; authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Philadelphia Neighborhood Housing Services and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement.
Sponsors: Councilmember Nutter
Indexes: WEST PHILADELPHIA REDEVELOPMENT AREA
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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 West Philadelphia Redevelopment Area identified by house numbers and street addresses as 6146 Master street, 5935 Media street, 5542 West Thompson street and 1313 & 1324 North Fifty-ninth street; authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Philadelphia Neighborhood Housing Services and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement.
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WHEREAS, In accordance with the provisions of the Urban Redevelopment Law, being the Act of May 24, 1945, P.L. 991, as amended and supplemented, the City Planning Commission of the City of Philadelphia (hereinafter "Commission") has on August 20, 1963, certified the West Philadelphia Redevelopment Area as a redevelopment area and has completed a detailed redevelopment area plan for the West Philadelphia Redevelopment Area dated March 16, 1962, as amended (hereinafter "West Philadelphia"); and

WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared a redevelopment contract which includes, inter alia, a portion of West Philadelphia identified by house numbers and street addresses as 6146 Master street, 5935 Media street, 5542 West Thompson street and 1313 & 1324 North Fifty-ninth street (the "Properties"). The areas of the Properties are bounded as follows:

5935 Media street.

ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground with the buildings and improvements thereon erected situate on the north Side of Media street at the distance of one hundred five feet eastward from the east side of Sixtieth street in the Thirty-fourth Ward of the City of Philadelphia; Containing in front or breadth on the said Media street fifteen feet and extending of that width in length or depth westward between parallel lines at right angles to the said Media street seven...

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