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File #: 210512    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: ADOPTED
File created: 5/27/2021 In control: CITY COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 6/10/2021
Title: Approving the redevelopment contract of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the Model Cities Urban Renewal Area, identified by house number and street address as 1221-1225 North Fourth street; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Engine House 29 LLC and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract.
Sponsors: Council President Clarke, Councilmember Parker
Attachments: 1. Resolution No. 21051200, 2. Signature21051200
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Approving the redevelopment contract of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the Model Cities Urban Renewal Area, identified by house number and street address as 1221-1225 North Fourth street; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Engine House 29 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 Model Cities Urban Renewal Area (hereinafter "Model Cities"), which said plan and proposal were approved by Ordinance of the Council on December 15, 1969, as amended; and

WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared a redevelopment contract for a portion of Model Cities, identified by house number and street address as 1221-1225 North Fourth street (the "Property"). The area of the Property is bounded as follows:

1221-1225 North Fourth street. All that certain lot or piece of ground with the buildings and improvements erected thereon, situate in the Eighteenth Ward of the City of Philadelphia, and described in accordance with a site plan made January 29, 2018 for Department of Public Property by Jack Betanski, PLS, Acting Surveyor and Regulator - Fifth Survey District, as follows: beginning at a point on the southeasterly side of Fourth street (fifty feet wide), measured south eleven degrees, zero minutes, seventeen seconds west, the distance of one hundred twelve and five tenths feet from the intersection of the said southeasterly side of Fourth street and the southwesterly side of Thompson street (forty-one feet wide) to the point of beginning; Thence extending south seventy-eight degrees, fifty-nine minutes, forty-three seconds east, partially passing through a wall and partially passing through a second w...

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