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File #: 160307    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: ADOPTED
File created: 4/14/2016 In control: CITY COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 4/21/2016
Title: Approving the redevelopment contract of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the New Kensington-Fishtown Urban Renewal Area, identified by house number and street address as 1507 Frankford avenue; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with 1507 Frankford City Associates, LP and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract.
Sponsors: Council President Clarke, Councilmember Greenlee
Indexes: NEW KENSINGTON - FISHTOWN URBAN RENEWAL AREA, REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
Attachments: 1. Resolution No. 16030700.pdf, 2. Signature16030700.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 New Kensington-Fishtown Urban Renewal Area, identified by house number and street address as 1507 Frankford avenue; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with 1507 Frankford City Associates, 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 New Kensington-Fishtown Urban Renewal Area (hereinafter "New Kensington-Fishtown"), which said plan and proposal were approved by Ordinance of the Council on June 13, 1997, as amended; and

WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared a redevelopment contract for a portion of New Kensington-Fishtown, identified by house number and street address as 1507 Frankford avenue (the "Property"). The area of the Property is bounded as follows:

1507 Frankford avenue.

ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground with the building and appurtenances thereto, if any, located in the Eighteenth Ward of the City of Philadelphia situated on the southeasterly side of Frankford avenue (fifty feet wide) at the distance of fifty-two feet northeastward from the northeasterly side of Marlborough street (fifty feet wide); Containing in front or breadth on Frankford avenue seventeen feet and extending of that width in length or depth southeastward between parallel lines at right angles to Frankford avenue on the northeasterly line thereof sixty-eight feet more or less, and on the southwesterly line thereof seventy-five feet four inches containing in the rear eighteen feet six inches more or less.

The said redevelopment contract is in substantial conformity with the amended urban renewal plan and the amended re...

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