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File #: 120449    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: ADOPTED
File created: 5/17/2012 In control: CITY COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 5/17/2012
Title: Approving the redevelopment contract of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the Washington Square West Unit No. 2 Urban Renewal Area, identified by house number and street address as 249-257 South Thirteenth street; authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Spruce Street Senior Residences LP and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract.
Sponsors: Councilmember Squilla
Indexes: REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST URBAN RENEWAL AREA
Attachments: 1. Signature12044900.pdf
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Approving the redevelopment contract of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the Washington Square West Unit No. 2 Urban Renewal Area, identified by house number and street address as 249-257 South Thirteenth street; authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Spruce Street Senior Residences LP and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract.
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WHEREAS, The Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority (hereinafter "Redevelopment Authority") has prepared and submitted an urban renewal plan and a redevelopment proposal for the redevelopment of the Washington Square West Unit No. 2 Urban Renewal Area (hereinafter "Washington Square West Unit No. 2"), which said plan and proposal were approved by Ordinance of the Council on September 25, 1967, as amended; and
WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared a redevelopment contract for a portion of Washington Square West Unit No. 2, identified by house number and street address as 249-257 South Thirteenth street (hereinafter the "Property"). The area of the Property is bounded as follows:
249-257 South Thirteenth street.
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situated in the Fifth Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning at a point on the easterly side of Thirteenth street (fifty feet wide) at a distance of one hundred ninety-seven feet southward from the southerly side of Locust street (fifty feet wide); Thence extending southward along the said easterly side of Thirteenth street one hundred three feet five and one-eighth inches to a point; Thence extending eastward at right angles to the said Thirteenth street a distance of one hundred eighty-eight feet to a point on the westerly side of Camac street (twenty feet wide); Thence extending northward along the said westerly side of Camac street fifty feet to a point; Thence extending westward on a line at right angle...

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