Pennsylvania Act 2002-104 — CONVEYANCE - COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY IN PHILADELPHIA COUNTY

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CONVEYANCE - COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY IN PHILADELPHIA COUNTY
                 Act of Jun. 29, 2002, P.L. 689, No. 104              Cl. 85
                                  AN ACT

     Authorizing the Department of General Services, with the
        approval of the Governor, to grant and convey to Tolentine
        Community Center and Development Corporation certain lands
        and building situate in the City of Philadelphia,
        Philadelphia County.

        The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     hereby enacts as follows:

        Section 1.  The Department of General Services, with the
     approval of the Governor, is hereby authorized on behalf of the
     Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to grant and convey to Tolentine
     Community Center and Development Corporation the former Armory
     at 1231 South Broad Street, City of Philadelphia, consisting of
     a parcel of land and building as described in section 2 for fair
     consideration equal to the fair market value of the property as
     determined by an independent appraiser.
        Section 2.  The tract to be conveyed is situate in the City
     of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, bounded and
     described as follows:
        ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground with the buildings
     thereon erected SITUATE on the East side of Broad Street in the
     Twenty-sixth Ward of the City of Philadelphia composed of six
     contiguous lots or pieces of ground viz three thereof commencing
     at the distance of one hundred and twenty-five feet Northward
     from the North side of Wharton Street, containing together in
     front or breadth on the said Broad Street seventy-five feet and
     extending in length or depth Eastwardly two hundred and twenty
     feet six inches, bounded on the South by ground now or late of
     Robert Ross, on the East by ground now or late of James Bond and
     William G. Alexander, on the North by the lot next described,
     and on the West by Broad Street aforesaid; one other thereof
     commencing at the distance of two hundred feet Northward from
     the North side of Wharton Street, containing in front or breadth
     on the said Broad Street twenty-five feet and extending in
     length or depth Eastward of that width between parallel lines at
     right angles to the said Broad Street two hundred and twenty
     feet six inches; bounded Northward by the lot next described,
     Southward by the lot last above described, Eastward by ground
     late of James Bond and William G. Alexander and Westward by said
     Broad Street; one other of them commencing at the distance of
     two hundred and twenty-five feet Northward from the North side
     of Wharton Street, containing in front or breadth on the said
     Broad Street seventeen feet and extending in depth Eastward on
     the South line thereof parallel with said Wharton Street, two
     hundred and twenty feet six inches and on the North Line in a
     Northeasterly direction two hundred and twenty-two feet more or
     less, and containing on the rear and thereof and parallel with
     Broad Street, thirty-four feet seven inches; bounded on the
     North by the lot next described, on the East by ground late of
     said Bond and Alexander on the South by the lot last described,
     and on the West by Broad Street; and the other thereof at the
     distance of two hundred and forty-two feet Northward from the
     North side of Wharton Street, thence extending on a line South
     Eighty-two degrees fifteen minutes East by the lot last
     described two hundred feet ten and a half inches to a fifty feet
     wide street called Watts Street, thence Northward along the West
     side of the said Watts Street Eleven feet two inches, thence
     Westward at right angle to said Broad Street, two hundred feet
     to the said Broad Street, and thence Southward along the East
     side of the said Broad Street thirty feet to the place of
     beginning.
        Section 3.  The conveyance shall be made under and subject to
     all lawful and enforceable easements, servitudes and rights of
     others, including, but not confined to, streets, roadways and
     rights of any telephone, telegraph, water, electric, cable, gas
     or pipeline companies, as well as under and subject to any
     lawful and enforceable estates or tenancies vested in third
     persons appearing of record, for any portion of the land or
     improvements erected thereon.
        Section 4.  The deed of conveyance shall be by special
     warranty deed and shall be executed by the Secretary of General
     Services in the name of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
        Section 5.  The deed of conveyance shall contain a clause
     restricting the use of the property for community social service
     programs. Should the Tolentine Community Center and Development
     Corporation allow the property to be used for any purpose other
     than for community social service programs or attempts to convey
     the property, title shall immediately revert to and revest in
     the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
        Section 6.  The deed of conveyance shall also contain a
     clause requiring the Tolentine Community Center and Development
     Corporation to ensure that any design for new construction,
     rehabilitation, alteration or demolition work on the property is
     compatible with its original architectural design and
     landscape/site plan in terms of scale, massing, fenestration,
     materials and color and is consistent with the recommended
     approaches in the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for
     Rehabilitation and Guidelines for Rehabilitating Historic
     Buildings as revised in 1995, and no new construction,
     demolition, alteration, remodeling or landscaping/site work
     shall be undertaken or permitted to be undertaken on the
     property without 30 days' prior written notice to the
     Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
        Section 7.  Costs and fees incidental to this conveyance
     shall be borne by the grantee.
        Section 8.  In the event that within one year of the
     effective date of this act this conveyance is not executed in
     accordance with the agreement of sale, the property may be
     disposed of in accordance with Article 2406-A of the act of
     April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative
     Code of 1929.
        Section 9.  This act shall take effect immediately.