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File #: 170645    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: ADOPTED
File created: 6/15/2017 In control: CITY COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 6/22/2017
Title: Approving the redevelopment contract of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the West Philadelphia Redevelopment Area, identified by house number and street address as 6161 West Girard avenue; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Calvary Agape Development Corporation and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract.
Sponsors: Councilmember Jones
Indexes: REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, WEST PHILADELPHIA REDEVELOPMENT AREA
Attachments: 1. Resolution No. 17064500.pdf, 2. Signature17064500.pdf
Title
Approving the redevelopment contract of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the West Philadelphia Redevelopment Area, identified by house number and street address as 6161 West Girard avenue; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Calvary Agape Development Corporation and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract.

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WHEREAS, In accordance with the provisions of the Urban Redevelopment Law, being the Act of May 24, 1945, P.L. 991, as amended and supplemented, the City Planning Commission of the City of Philadelphia has on August 20, 1963, certified the West Philadelphia Redevelopment Area as a redevelopment area and has completed a detailed redevelopment area plan for the West Philadelphia Redevelopment Area dated March 16, 1962, as amended (hereinafter "West Philadelphia"); and

WHEREAS, The Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority (hereinafter "Redevelopment Authority") has prepared a redevelopment contract for a portion of West Philadelphia, identified by house number and street address as 6161 West Girard avenue (the "Property"). The area of the Property is bounded as follows:

6161 West Girard avenue.

ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground with the building and appurtenances thereto, if any, situate in the Thirty-fourth Ward of the City of Philadelphia and described according to a Survey and Plan thereof, made by George T. Shegog, Esq., Surveyor and Regulator of the Seventh District dated October 6, 1949, as follows, to wit: Beginning at the point formed by the intersection of the northeastwardly side of Girard avenue (sixty feet wide) and the southeasterly side of Sixty-second street (sixty feet wide); Thence extending north eleven degrees, one minute, east along the said side of Sixty-second street sixty-one feet, two and five-eighths inches to a point; Thence extending south seven...

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