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File #: 210608    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 Mantua Urban Renewal Area, identified by house numbers and street addresses as 3700-3704 Brown street (including 3708-3712 Brown street, 749-757 North DeKalb street, and 772-780 North Thirty-seventh street), 3706 Brown street and 3714 Brown street; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Mt. Vernon Manor, Inc. and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract.
Sponsors: Councilmember Gauthier
Attachments: 1. Resolution No. 21060800, 2. Signature21060800
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Approving the redevelopment contract of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the Mantua Urban Renewal Area, identified by house numbers and street addresses as 3700-3704 Brown street (including 3708-3712 Brown street, 749-757 North DeKalb street, and 772-780 North Thirty-seventh street), 3706 Brown street and 3714 Brown street; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Mt. Vernon Manor, Inc. 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 Mantua Urban Renewal Area (hereinafter "Mantua"), 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 Mantua, identified by house numbers and street addresses as 3700-3704 Brown street (including 3708-3712 Brown street, 749-757 North DeKalb street, and 772-780 North Thirty-seventh street), 3706 Brown street and 3714 Brown street (collectively the "Properties"). The areas of the Properties are bounded as follows:

3700-3704 Brown street (including 3708-3712 Brown street, 749-757 North DeKalb street, and 772-780 North Thirty-seventh street). All that certain lot or piece of ground situated in the Twenty-fourth Ward of the City of Philadelphia beginning on the southwest corner at the intersection of North Thirty-seventh street (sixty feet wide) and Brown street (sixty feet wide); Thence extending west along the south side of the said Brown street sixty feet to a point; Thence extending south on a line at right angles with the said Brown street seventy-eight feet nine and one-half inches to a point; Thence extending west twenty feet to...

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