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File #: 150549    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: ADOPTED
File created: 6/4/2015 In control: CITY COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 6/11/2015
Title: Approving the redevelopment contract of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the Model Cities Urban Renewal Area, identified by house number and street address as 2310-2314 North Marshall street; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with APM Properties Inc. and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract.
Sponsors: Council President Clarke, Councilmember Greenlee
Indexes: MODEL CITIES URBAN RENEWAL AREA, REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
Attachments: 1. Resolution No. 15054900.pdf, 2. Signature15054900.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 Model Cities Urban Renewal Area, identified by house number and street address as 2310-2314 North Marshall street; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with APM Properties Inc. 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 Model Cities Urban Renewal Area (hereinafter “Model Cities”), 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 redevelopment contract for a portion of Model Cities, identified by house number and street address as 2310-2314 North Marshall street (the “Property”).  The area of the Property is bounded as follows:

 

2310-2314 North Marshall street.

 

ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situate in the Twentieth Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning at a point on the westerly side of Marshall street (fifty wide), said point being located ninety-nine and eighty-three hundredths feet northward from the intersection of the said side of Marshall street and the northerly side of Dauphin street (fifty feet wide) and extending; thence, containing in front or breadth on the said Marshall street forty-seven and seventeen hundredths feet and extending of that width westward between parallel lines, perpendicular to the said Marshall street, eighty and eighty-seven hundredths feet to a three and five tenths feet wide alley and being bound on the north line by a three feet wide alley.

 

The said redevelopment contract is in substantial conformity with the amended urban renewal plan and the amended redevelopment proposal approved by Council; and

 

WHEREAS, APM Properties Inc. desires to enter into the said redevelopment contract for the Property.

 

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, That the redevelopment contract submitted by the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority (hereinafter “Redevelopment Authority”) for the redevelopment of that portion of the Model Cities Urban Renewal Area, 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.  The Redevelopment Authority is authorized to execute the hereby approved redevelopment contract with APM Properties Inc. (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 hereby approved.  Accordingly, the Council hereby declares that it will cooperate in helping to carry out the redevelopment contract 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.

 

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