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Redevelopment Authority Moves Ahead With Plans for Properties Destroyed in MOVE Bombing

The Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority selected AJR Endeavors to redevelop three dozen properties that were involved in the infamous MOVE explosion that took place in 1985 and marred a neighborhood, the city and its mayor. 

The effort by the city agency looks to have those properties redeveloped and, though it won’t erase history, it has the potential to set that part of Philadelphia on a new course.

Sixty properties were destroyed in the fiery explosion that killed 11 people along the 6200 block of Osage Avenue and the 6200 block of Pine Street in the Cobbs Creek neighborhood of West Philadelphia.

It’s been a long road to reach this point. The redevelopment authority condemned and subsequently bought the site. Sixty-one new homes were built, albeit in a shoddy manner. At first, the city attempted to make repairs to the houses, but in 2000 an effort to buy the properties at fair market value was initiated. Read more on the plans on PBJ.com.


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