PRINTER'S NO. 2188
No. 1824 Session of 1991
INTRODUCED BY MURPHY AND ROBINSON, JUNE 28, 1991
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, JUNE 28, 1991
AN ACT
1 Authorizing and directing the Department of General Services,
2 with the approval of the Governor, to grant and convey land
3 situate in the City of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, to the
4 Urban Redevelopment Authority of the City of Pittsburgh.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. The Department of General Services, with the
8 approval of the Governor, is hereby authorized and directed on
9 behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to grant and convey,
10 for a consideration of one half of the fair market value as
11 determined by an independent appraisal to the Urban
12 Redevelopment Authority of the City of Pittsburgh the following
13 described tracts of land situate in the City of Pittsburgh,
14 Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, bounded and described as
15 follows:
16 Tract No. 1
17 Beginning at the southwesterly corner of East General
18 Robinson Street and Grantham Street; running thence westwardly
1 along East General Robinson Street 30.27 feet to the point of
2 beginning; thence continuing westwardly 59.65 feet, more or
3 less, to a point on line of property now or formerly of J.A.
4 Spence; thence southwardly 94 feet to a point to the northwest
5 corner of land now or formerly of J.F. Entress; thence by line
6 of property now or formerly of J.F. Entress and of J.W. Kinnear,
7 eastwardly along the northerly line of Entress property 44.10
8 feet, more or less, to a point at the easterly line of property
9 of Entress; thence southwardly 100 feet, more or less, along
10 said easterly line of Entress property, to the northerly line of
11 River Avenue; thence eastwardly along the northerly line of
12 River Avenue 48.1 feet, more or less, to the northwesterly
13 corner of River Avenue and Grantham Street; thence northwardly
14 along the westerly side of Grantham Street 167 feet, more or
15 less, to the right-of-way for River Avenue Connection; thence
16 along the right-of-way as constructed northwestwardly 12.00
17 feet, more or less, to a point of curve as located on said
18 right-of-way; thence by a curve deflecting to the left with an
19 arc length of 28.22 feet, more or less, and a radius of 138.00
20 feet to the place of beginning.
21 Containing 12,726 square feet, more or less.
22 Tract No. 2
23 Beginning at the northeast corner of River Avenue and
24 Grantham Street; thence north 15 degrees 10 minutes west 94.00
25 feet along Grantham Street to the place of beginning at the
26 corner of Lot 84 in the Sylvanus Lothrop Plan of Lots, in Deed
27 Book, Volume 46, page 544; thence continuing along Grantham
28 Street north 15 degrees 10 minutes west, 28.77 feet to the
29 right-of-way line of River Avenue Connection; thence by such
30 right-of-way south 65 degrees 48 minutes east 25.87 feet to a
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1 point; thence south 15 degrees 10 minutes east 12.36 feet;
2 thence south 74 degrees 50 minutes west 20.00 feet to the place
3 of beginning.
4 Containing an area of 411 square feet, more or less.
5 Being part of Lot 84 in the said Sylvanus Lothrop Plan of
6 Lots.
7 Tract No. 3
8 Beginning at the northeast corner of River Avenue and
9 Grantham Street; thence along Grantham Street north 15 degrees
10 10 minutes west 94.00 feet to the corner of Lot 84 in the
11 Sylvanus Lothrop Plan recorded in Deed Book Volume 46, page 544;
12 thence along the southerly line of said Lot 84, north 74 degrees
13 50 minutes east 20.00 feet; thence by a line parallel to
14 Grantham Street, north 15 degrees 10 minutes west 12.36 feet to
15 the right-of-way line of River Avenue Connection as now
16 constructed; thence by such right-of-way line south 65 degrees
17 48 minutes east 98.77 feet to a point of curve in said right-of-
18 way; thence by a curve deflecting to the left with a radius of
19 185.00 feet and an arc length of 4.72 feet to Bronco Way; thence
20 along Bronco Way south 14 degrees 47 minutes 03 seconds east
21 19.82 feet to River Avenue; thence along River Avenue south 62
22 degrees 56 minutes 37 seconds west 102.19 feet to the place of
23 beginning.
24 Containing an area of 6,712 square feet, more or less.
25 Tract No. 4
26 Beginning at the northeast corner of River Avenue and Bronco
27 Way; thence along Bronco Way north 12 degrees 39 minutes 15
28 seconds west 12.00 feet to the right-of-way line of River Avenue
29 Connection; thence by a curve deflecting to the left with a
30 radius of 185.00 feet and an arc length of 16.75 feet to a point
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1 on the right-of-way line of River Avenue; thence south 65
2 degrees 04 minutes 25 seconds west 14.50 feet to the place of
3 beginning.
4 Containing an area of 84 square feet, more or less.
5 Section 2. The conveyance shall be made under and subject to
6 all easements, servitudes and rights of others, including, but
7 not confined to, streets, roadways and rights of any telephone,
8 telegraph, water, electric, sewer, gas or pipeline companies, as
9 well as under and subject to any interest, estates or tenancies
10 vested in third persons, whether or not appearing of record, for
11 any portion of the land or improvements erected thereon.
12 Section 3. The deed of conveyance shall be approved as
13 provided by law and shall be executed by the Secretary of
14 General Services in the name of the Commonwealth of
15 Pennsylvania.
16 Section 4. Costs and fees incidental to this conveyance
17 shall be borne by the grantee.
18 Section 5. This act shall take effect immediately.
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