Official:Authorizing the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development ("PAID") to file an application with the Office of the Budget, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, under the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program, in an aggregate amount not to exceed Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000) to assist in the conversion of the former Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia to the Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience and authorizing the City to enter into an agreement with PAID in furtherance of grant requirements; all under certain terms and conditions.
Sponsor: Councilmember DiCicco
Introduced: May 10, 2007
Signed: June 14, 2007
: Committee on Finance
Status: Signed into Law, step 4 of 4
This bill allows the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development (PAID) to apply for a $500,000 grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program to convert the former Wills Eye Hospital into the Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience.
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