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Plan to Redevelop Part of Point Breeze Approves Acquisition of 43 Properties for Residential and Recreational Use

Official:Approving the seventh amendment of the redevelopment proposal for the Point Breeze East Urban Renewal Area, being the area generally bounded by the southerly side of Washington avenue on the north, the westerly side of Broad street on the east, the northerly side of Moore street on the south and the easterly side of Twenty-fifth street on the west, including the seventh amendment to the urban renewal plan and the second amendment to the relocation plan, which provides, inter alia, for the additional land acquisition of forty-three (43) properties for residential, recreational and related reuses; the provision of certain relocation services, as required by law and declaring that condemnation is not imminent with respect to the Project.

Sponsor: Councilmember Johnson

Introduced: September 27, 2012

Signed: November 29, 2012

: Committee on Rules

neighborhood neighborhood planning planning

Plain-Language Summary

This bill approves a plan to redevelop part of Point Breeze, a neighborhood in Philadelphia, by buying 43 properties for residential and recreational use.