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Approving the redevelopment contract of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the 44th and Aspen Urban Renewal Area, identified by house number and street address as 756 Brooklyn street; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with the James Shuler Memorial Foundation 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 44th and Aspen Urban Renewal Area (hereinafter "44th & Aspen"), which said plan and proposal were approved by Ordinance of the Council on June 12, 2003, as amended; and
WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared a redevelopment contract for a portion of 44th & Aspen, identified by house number and street address 756 Brooklyn street (the “Property”). The area of the Property is bounded as follows:
756 Brooklyn street.
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground with the buildings and appurtenances thereto, if any, situate in the Sixth Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning at a point on the westerly side of Brooklyn street (fifty feet wide), said point being located ninety-nine and twenty–eight hundredths feet northward from the intersection of the said side of Brooklyn street and the northerly side of Aspen street (sixty feet wide) and extending; Thence, leaving said side of Brooklyn street, south eighty-six degrees, fifteen minutes, eleven seconds west, a distance of thirty-two and fifty-three hundredths feet; Thence, south forty-one degrees, fifteen minutes, eleven seconds west, a distance of three and ninety-six hundredths feet; Thence, south eighty-six degrees, fifteen minutes, eleven seconds west, a distance of fifty-four and sixty-seven hundredths feet; Thence, north three degrees, forty-two minutes, thirty seconds west, a distance of twenty-eight and forty-nine hundredths feet; Thence, north eighty-six degrees, fifteen minutes, eleven seconds east, a distance of ninety feet to a point on the westerly side of Brooklyn street; Thence, along the westerly side of Brooklyn street, south three degrees, forty-two minutes, thirty seconds east, a distance of twenty-five and sixty-nine hundredths feet 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, the James Shuler Memorial Foundation 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 44th & Aspen 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 the James Shuler Memorial Foundation (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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