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File #: 210594    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: ADOPTED
File created: 6/17/2021 In control: CITY COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 6/24/2021
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 numbers and street addresses as 1807-1833 North Eighth street, 1837-1861 North Eighth street, 720-730 West Berks street (including 1838-1842 North Franklin street), 1826 North Franklin street and 1832 North Franklin street; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Berks Senior Living, LP and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract.
Sponsors: Council President Clarke, Councilmember Gilmore Richardson
Attachments: 1. Resolution No. 21059400, 2. Signature21059400
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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 numbers and street addresses as 1807-1833 North Eighth street, 1837-1861 North Eighth street, 720-730 West Berks street (including 1838-1842 North Franklin street), 1826 North Franklin street and 1832 North Franklin street; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Berks Senior Living, LP 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 numbers and street addresses as 1807-1833 North Eighth street, 1837-1861 North Eighth street, 720-730 West Berks street (including 1838-1842 North Franklin street), 1826 North Franklin street and 1832 North Franklin street (the "Properties"). The area of the Properties is bounded as follows:

1827-1833 North Eighth street. All that certain lot or piece of ground situated in the Twentieth Ward of the City of Philadelphia, situate on the east side of Eighth street at the distance of two hundred twenty-one feet northward from the north side of Montgomery avenue. Thence extending eastward at right angles to the said Eighth street the distance of seventy-five feet to a point on the west side of a certain four feet wide alley; Thence extending northward along the said four feet wide alley the distance of sixty feet to a point; Thence extending westward the dista...

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