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File #: 110800    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: ADOPTED
File created: 11/3/2011 In control: CITY COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 11/17/2011
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 Nos. 286, 287 and 288 and also sometimes identified by house numbers and street addresses for Parcel No. 286 as 3923 Brandywine street, Parcel No. 287 as 3933-3937 Brandywine street and for Parcel No. 288 as 3811-3813 Haverford avenue; authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with People's Emergency Center Community Development 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. Signature11080000.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 Nos. 286, 287 and 288 and also sometimes identified by house numbers and street addresses for Parcel No. 286 as 3923 Brandywine street, Parcel No. 287 as 3933-3937 Brandywine street and for Parcel No. 288 as 3811-3813 Haverford avenue; authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with People's Emergency Center Community Development 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 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 Nos. 286, 287 and 288 and also sometimes identified by house numbers and street addresses for Parcel No. 286 as 3923 Brandywine street, Parcel No. 287 as 3933-3937 Brandywine street and for Parcel No. 288 as 3811-3813 Haverford avenue (the “Properties").  The area of the said Properties is bounded as follows:
Parcel No. 286 (3923 Brandywine 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 northerly side of Brandywine street (forty feet wide) at the distance of one hundred forty-three feet ten and three-quarters inches westwardly from the westerly side of Thirty-ninth street (sixty feet wide);  Containing in front or breadth on the said Brandywine street twelve feet one inch and extending of that width in length or depth northwardly between parallel lines fifty feet three inches to a point on the southerly side of a certain four feet wide alley extending from the said Thirty-ninth street westward and communicating with a certain three feet wide alley leading southwardly into the said Brandywine street.
Parcel No. 287 (3933-3937 Brandywine 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 northerly side of Brandywine street (forty feet wide) at the distance of two hundred five feet two and five-eighths inches westwardly from the westerly side of Thirty-ninth street (sixty feet wide);  Containing in front or breadth on the said Brandywine street thirty-six feet eleven and three-eighths inches and extending of that width in length or depth northwardly between parallel lines fifty feet three inches to a point on the southerly side of a certain four feet wide alley extending from the said Thirty-ninth street westward and communicating with a certain three feet wide alley leading southwardly into the said Brandywine street.
Parcel No. 288 (3811-3813 Haverford avenue).
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situated in the Twenty-fourth Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning on the north side of Haverford avenue (sixty feet wide) at the distance of eighty-three feet five and five-eighths inches west from the west side of Thirty-eighth street (fifty feet wide);  Thence extending north on a line at right angles to the said Haverford avenue ninety-seven feet to a point; Thence extending east on a line parallel to the said Haverford avenue thirteen feet five and five-eighths inches to a point;  Thence extending north on a line parallel with the said Thirty-eighth street twenty-two feet to a point;  Thence extending west on a line at right angles to the said Thirty-eighth street thirty feet to a point;  Thence extending south on a line parallel with the said Thirty-eighth street nine feet to a point;  Thence extending west on a line at right angles to the said Thirty-eighth street eighteen feet two inches to a point;  Thence extending south one hundred ten feet to a point on the said side of Haverford avenue; Thence extending east along the said side of Haverford avenue thirty-four feet eight and three-eighths inches to the first mentioned point and place of beginning.
      The said redevelopment contract is in substantial conformity with the amended urban renewal plan and the amended redevelopment proposal approved by the Council; and
      WHEREAS, People's Emergency Center Community Development Corporation desires to enter into the said redevelopment contract for the Properties.
      RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, That the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement submitted by the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia (hereinafter "Redevelopment Authority") for the redevelopment of that portion of Mantua, 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 and disposition supplement.  The Redevelopment Authority is authorized to execute the hereby approved redevelopment contract with People's Emergency Center Community Development 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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