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File #: 160620    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: ADOPTED
File created: 6/9/2016 In control: CITY COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 6/16/2016
Title: Approving the redevelopment contract of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the University City Unit 3 Urban Renewal Area, identified by house number and street address as 3500 Lancaster avenue; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with The District One Community Education Center, LLC and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract.
Sponsors: Councilmember Blackwell
Indexes: REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, UNIVERSITY CITY UNIT 3 URBAN RENEWAL AREA
Attachments: 1. Resolution No. 16062000.pdf, 2. Signature16062000.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 University City Unit 3 Urban Renewal Area, identified by house number and street address as 3500 Lancaster avenue; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with The District One Community Education Center, LLC 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 University City Unit 3 Urban Renewal Area (hereinafter "University City Unit 3"), which said plan and proposal were approved by Ordinance of the Council on September 17, 1965, as amended; and

WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared a redevelopment contract for a portion of University City Unit 3, identified by house number and street address as 3500 Lancaster avenue (the "Property"). The area of the Property is bounded as follows:

3500 Lancaster avenue.

ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situate in the Twenty-fourth Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning at a point on the southwesterly side of Lancaster avenue (eighty feet wide) at the distance of three hundred twenty nine feet six and three-quarter inches northwestwardly from the northwesterly side of North Thirty-fourth street (sixty feet wide); Thence extending in a southwesterly direction one hundred ninety feet and zero inches to a point on the northeasterly side of Warren street (fifty feet wide); Thence extending in a northwesterly direction along the said northeasterly side of Warren street one hundred thirty-five feet zero inches to a point; Thence extending in a northeasterly direction one hundred ninety feet zero inches to a point on the southwesterly side of Lancaster avenue; Thence extendi...

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