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File #: 240286    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: ADOPTED
File created: 4/11/2024 In control: CITY COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 4/18/2024
Title: Approving the redevelopment contract of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the West Mill Creek Urban Renewal Area, identified by house numbers and street addresses as 607 North Fifty-third street, 625 North Fifty-third street, 633 North Fifty-third street, 635 North Fifty-third street, and 637 North Fifty-third street; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Liberty53 LP and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract.
Sponsors: Councilmember Gauthier
Indexes: MILL CREEK URBAN RENEWAL AREA, REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
Attachments: 1. Resolution No. 24028600, 2. Signature 24028600
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Approving the redevelopment contract of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the West Mill Creek Urban Renewal Area, identified by house numbers and street addresses as 607 North Fifty-third street, 625 North Fifty-third street, 633 North Fifty-third street, 635 North Fifty-third street, and 637 North Fifty-third street; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Liberty53 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 West Mill Creek Urban Renewal Area (hereinafter "West Mill Creek"), which said plan and proposal were approved by Ordinance of the Council on May 15, 1964, as amended; and

WHEREAS, The Redevelopment Authority has prepared a contract for a portion of West Mill Creek, identified by house numbers and street addresses as 607 North Fifty-third street, 625 North Fifty-third street, 633 North Fifty-third street, 635 North Fifty-third street, and 637 North Fifty-third street (collectively, the "Properties"). The areas of the Properties are bounded as follows:

607 North Fifty-third street.

ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situate in the Forty-fourth Ward of the City of Philadelphia, and described in accordance with a Survey and Plan thereof made by John Reilly, Surveyor and Regulator of the 7th Survey District on 2/9/1971, as follows, to wit: beginning at a point on the east side of Fifty-third street (sixty feet wide) said point being north six degrees, nineteen minutes, twenty-nine seconds west forty-nine feet ten inches northwardly from the north side of Wyalusing avenue (sixty feet wide); Thence extending from said beginning point north eighty-four degrees, thirty-six minutes, nine seconds eas...

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