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File #: 180951    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Bill Status: ENACTED
File created: 10/25/2018 In control: Committee on Public Property and Public Works
On agenda: Final action: 12/6/2018
Title: Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property and the Director of Commerce, on behalf of the City, to acquire an approximately 15-acre property known as 501 Seminole Street, Lester, Pennsylvania, together with all improvements thereon, all under certain terms and conditions.
Sponsors: Councilmember Johnson
Attachments: 1. CertifiedCopy18095100.pdf
Title
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property and the Director of Commerce, on behalf of the City, to acquire an approximately 15-acre property known as 501 Seminole Street, Lester, Pennsylvania, together with all improvements thereon, all under certain terms and conditions.

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WHEREAS, Tinicum Realty Partners, L. P. is the owner of approximately 15 acres of land in Delaware County ("Property") more specifically described in Exhibit "A";

WHEREAS, the City seeks to purchase the Property; now, therefore

THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA HEREBY ORDAINS:

SECTION 1. The Commissioner of Public Property and the Director of Commerce are hereby authorized to acquire, on behalf of the City, by amicable negotiation or condemnation or otherwise, the Property located at 501 Seminole Street, Lester, Pennsylvania, as more specifically described in Exhibit "A" hereto.

SECTION 2. The City Solicitor is hereby authorized to review and to approve all instruments and documents necessary to effectuate this Ordinance, which instruments and documents shall contain such terms and conditions as the City Solicitor shall deem necessary and proper to protect the interests of the City of Philadelphia and carry out the purposes for this Ordinance.



Exhibit A
LEGAL DESCRIPTION
TAX PARCEL 45-08-013

All that certain parcel or tract of land situate in the Township of Tinicum, County of Delaware, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, being known as Tax Parcel 45-08-013 and being graphically shown on a plan prepared by Hunt Engineering Company entitled "ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey for Tinicum Realty Partners, L.P.", dated June 29, 2018. Said parcel of land being more particularly described as follows:

Commencing at the intersection of the southerly right-of-way of Seminole Street (60' wide) and the easterly right-of-way of Fourth Avenue (60 feet wide);

Thence along the southerly right-of-way of Seminole Street, North 63 degrees 12 minutes 09 ...

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