any wonder PA is listed as one of the worst offenders of eminent domain abuse?

what stupidity.

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I can not express how much I would appreciate any specific references to properties listed in any notices realted to this that anybody could find.

There is a reference to certain maps in the full text of Oridnance 050365 on Hallwatch.org but no map.
http://www.hallwatch.org/councilnoti...814715946/view

I've already recycled my newspapers from last week, but I specifically remember seeing the multiple notices posted by the city, in the sports section in either Thursday, Friday, or Saturday's paper. The properties affected were listed one and all.

I don't think there's any links. The printed Legal Notice is on page D9 on the Inky's sports section, around a bunch of other similar notices for other parts of the city.

The Notice of Pbulic Hearing for 51st & Baltimore Avenue Urban Renewal Area says, as they all say, that with provisions of the Housing and COmmunity Developement Act of 1977 and Urban Redevelopmetn Law of 1945, a public hearing will be held at Room 400 of City Hall at 10 a.m. on Monday, Une 6. (I think they all have same public hearing time.)

To present views on 1st Amended Redevelopment Proposal and First Amedned Urban Renewal Plan as prepared by the City PLanning COmmission.

acquisition of of 24 vacant structures and lots for instituional and related resues. The properties sto be acquired are:

South 51st Street
728, 730, 732, 734, 736, 738, 739, 741

Baltimore Avenue
5040, 5042, 5043, 5044, 5045, 5046, 5047, 5048, 5049, 5050, 5100-5106, 5108, 5110, 5112, 5114, 5116

Then it states it is the intenton of the authority to condemn the properties, however subject to approval of city council and funds. Any properties not being proposed for acquisition and clearance are not to be acquired under this Redevelopment Propsoal and Renewal Plan


The one for 45th and Sansom
is similar except it's the Third Amended Propsoal and PLan
and is for the 46th and Sansom, not 45th, even though it's titled 45th and it claims 11 properties for residential and related resuses

Sansom St
4612, 4613, 4614, 4616, 4618, 4619, 4620

South 46th Street
122, 127, 129, 131


The proposals are the office of the Redevelopmetn Authority of the City, 1234 Market St, 16thFloor and available for public inspection.

Thanks so much GPD.

It sounds like you can kiss all of those red brick barn shaped houses on Baltimore and 51st except for the laundromat on the corner goodbye, as well as the shells between the Health Center and 51st St., but MiaLou and Kulture are safe. Its odd, the owner of 5040 just had a crew cleaning it out all last week. They had even started to replace a couple of windows. Fateen at Kulture had heard they were going to put in a hair salon. After letting the building sit for so many years what awful time to start rehabbing the building.

I am extremely relieved nonetheless.

jannie blackwell has been pushing for this. I'd rather see incentives to fix it up.

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Blackwell isn't just pushing for it - she's the author of the bill. I tend to agree with you, el. The 4 on the south side of Baltimore (including the one they were jsut starting to rehab) are in rough shape but all have the exact same floor plan as MiaLou - about 100 years old, 3 stories, a nice large shop space on the ground floor with 14 foot ceilings and 3 1-bedroom apartments upstairs - all right on a busy trolley line. There is zero chance that anything new they put up to replace them wil have the arcitectural grace of what they would have if those buildings were rehabbed.

I don't know what the plan for 46th and Sansome but as I recall there a bunch of abandonned small apartment buildings (the ones with the large patios on each floor) right around there. If i were to take a wild guess I would imagine that the same developer who is more or less completely redoing the 4400 and 4500 blocks of Sansome might just working their way down the street. I will say they are doing some really nice rehabs on those other blocks of Sansome.

Here's a shot of what those buildings basically look like based on MiaLou.


Actually when Volguus was taking this shot he was standing in front of some of those storefronts but you can get a feel for the buildings basic design from this picture of the buildings across the street. MiaLou is at the end of the strip. Not necessarily anything to write home about but I think it is fair to say they don't build dense strips of storefronts like this anymore. The potential for rehab/ infill on ablock like this I think generally outstrips what you get from new construction, in terms of buildking walkable shopping strips.

that's what they're tearing down? there are buidlings in far worse shape than that in this city. seems highly questionable to me. she has been pushing for this for years.

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