Series 6. Economic Development Corporation Records, 1980-1987.

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Series 6. Economic Development Corporation Records, 1980-1987.

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Subseries 1, General Records, 1980-87, contains background materials concerning the creation of the EDC as an entity for receiving public and private development funds. Files include correspondence between SMA officers and their partner in the development, New York realtor John Rosenthal; as well as reports, brochures, proposals, and funding guidelines which EDC's incorporators collected from agencies and organizations involved in similar ventures such as the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC); the Philadelphia Community Development Corporation (PCDC) and the Enterprise Zone Program of the Department of Commerce, City of Philadelphia; the Philadelphia Housing Development Corporation (PHDC); the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Subseries 2 concerns the Corporation's Section 8 housing project, Dorado Village, and the Dorado Neighborhood Improvement Company, 1981-87. Subseries 3, Housing Rehabilitation Prjects, 1981-87, is made up of files of two projects, Major Systems Rehabilitation (MSR) and Basic Systems Repair (BSR), which the EDC conducted under a contract between the City of Philadelphia and SMA for using U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Community Development Block Grant funds to rehabilitate vacant properties (MSR) and perform repairs on occupied dwellings (BSR). Files include correspondence between MSR/BSR project head Carlos Rodriguez and City of Philadelphia Office of Housing and Community Development officers; exchanges between Rodriguez, project architect Schlosser/Rivera/Krumholz, and building subcontractors; and materials pertaining to selection of properties and clients assisted under the plan.

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United States. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development.

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Philadelphia Community Development Project.

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Matrullo, John, 1948-

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Philadelphia Housing Development Corporation

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Dorado Village Neighborhood Improvement Company.

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Philadelphia (Pa.). Dept. of Commerce.

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Hispanic Federation for Social and Economic Development (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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LISC/Chicago

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Medina, Gualberto, 1949-

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Dorado Village (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Philadelphia Citywide Development Corporation

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Philadelphia (Pa.). Office of Housing and Community Development

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Rodriguez, Carlos

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Spanish Merchants Association of Philadelphia

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The Spanish Merchants Company was established by the Spanish Merchants Association of Philadelphia to distribute milk to Spanish-speaking grocers. It was the first minority milk cooperative to act as a subdealer with its own license not subject to price controls of the Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Board. Profits were paid out to shareholders in quarterly dividends. From the description of Series 2. Spanish Merchants Company Records, 1973-1984. (Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies Libra...

Rosenthal, John B.

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Schlosser/Rivera/Krumholz.

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