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Approving the redevelopment contract of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the Cecil B. Moore Avenue Urban Renewal Area, identified by house numbers and street addresses as 1620-1624 Cecil B. Moore avenue and 1626 Cecil B. Moore avenue; authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with 1620 Cecil B Moore 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 Cecil B. Moore Avenue Urban Renewal Area (hereinafter “Cecil B. Moore”), which said plan and proposal were approved by Ordinance of the Council on December 22, 1987, as amended; and
WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared a redevelopment contract for a portion of Cecil B. Moore, identified by house numbers and street addresses as 1620-1624 Cecil B. Moore avenue and 1626 Cecil B. Moore avenue (collectively, the “Properties”). The area of the Properties is bounded as follows:
1620-1624 Cecil B. Moore avenue.
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situated in the Forty-seventh Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning at the point of intersection of the southerly side of Cecil B. Moore avenue (sixty feet wide) and the westerly side of Willington street (fifty feet wide); Thence extending southward along the said side of Willington street the distance of seventy-six feet to a point; Thence extending westward on a line at right angles to the said Willington street sixty-four feet one inch to a point; Thence extending northward on a line parallel with the said Willington street seventy-six feet to a point on the said side of Cecil B. Moore avenue; Thence extending eastward along the said Cecil B. Moore avenue sixty-four feet one inch to the point of intersection with the said Willington street, being the first mentioned point and place of beginning.
1626 Cecil B. Moore avenue.
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situated in the Forty-seventh Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning at a point on the south side of Cecil B. Moore avenue (formerly known as Columbia avenue) (sixty feet wide) at the distance of eighty-six feet five inches eastward from the east side of North Seventeenth street (fifty feet wide); Thence extending southward on a line at right angles to the said Cecil B. Moore avenue seventy-seven feet to a point; Thence extending eastward on a line at right angles to the said Seventeenth street thirteen feet seven inches to a point; Thence extending northward on a line at right angles to the said Cecil B. Moore avenue one foot to a point; Thence extending eastward on a line at right angles to the said Seventeenth street eight feet nine inches to a point; Thence extending northward on a line at right angles to the said Cecil B. Moore avenue seventy-six feet to a point on the south side of said Cecil B. Moore avenue; Thence extending westward along the said Cecil B. Moore avenue twenty-two feet four inches 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, 1620 Cecil B Moore LLC desires to enter into the said redevelopment contract for the Properties.
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 Cecil B. Moore Avenue 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 1620 Cecil B Moore LLC (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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