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File #: 150449    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: ADOPTED
File created: 5/7/2015 In control: CITY COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 5/14/2015
Title: Approving the redevelopment contract of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the Point Breeze Urban Renewal Area, identified by house number and street address as 1606-1610 South Twentieth street; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Urban Roots and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract.
Sponsors: Councilmember Johnson
Indexes: POINT BREEZE EAST URBAN RENEWAL AREA, REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
Attachments: 1. Resolution No. 15044900.pdf, 2. Signature15044900.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 Point Breeze Urban Renewal Area, identified by house number and street address as 1606-1610 South Twentieth street; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Urban Roots 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 Point Breeze Urban Renewal Area (hereinafter "Point Breeze"), which said plan and proposal were approved by Ordinance of the Council on December 31, 1971, as amended; and

WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared a redevelopment contract for a portion of Point Breeze, identified by house number and street address as 1606-1610 South Twentieth street (the "Property"). The area of the Property is bounded as follows:

1606-1610 South Twentieth street.

ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situated in the Thirty-sixth Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning at a point on the westerly side of Twentieth street (fifty feet wide) at the distance of sixteen feet northward from the north side of Fernon street (forty feet wide); Thence extending northward along the said side of Twentieth street, forty-eight feet to a point on the south side of a certain two feet wide alley that extends eastward into the said Twentieth street, Thence extending westward along said side of aforesaid alley sixty-three feet eleven and one-quarter inches to a point, Thence extending southward on a line parallel with the said Twentieth street sixteen feet to a point, Thence extending westward on a line parallel with the said Fernon street three feet six and three-quarters inches to a point on the east side of a certain four feet ...

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