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File #: 110502    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: ADOPTED
File created: 6/9/2011 In control: CITY COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 6/16/2011
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. 289 and also sometimes identified by house number and street address as 3863 Melon street; authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Herley and Sheila Johnson 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. Signature11050200.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. 289 and also sometimes identified by house number and street address as 3863 Melon street; authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Herley and Sheila Johnson 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 disposition supplement providing, inter alia, for development controls and regulations imposed upon the redeveloper; and
WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared a redevelopment contract for a portion of Mantua designated as Parcel No. 289 and also sometimes identified by house number and street address as 3863 Melon street (the "Property"). The area of the said Property is bounded as follows:
Parcel No. 289 (3863 Melon street).
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situate in the Twenty-fourth Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning at a point on the northerly side of Melon street (forty feet wide) at the distance of one hundred forty four feet two inches east from the easterly side of Thirty-ninth street (sixty feet wide); Thence extending in a northerly direction the distance of sixty one feet to a point on the southerly side of a certain four feet wide alley; Thence extending in an easterly direction along the southern side of said four feet wide alley the dist...

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