Presenter
Presented by Mr. Udin
Title
Resolution providing for an Agreement or Agreements and/or a Cooperation Agreement or Cooperation Agreements, authorizing the City of Pittsburgh to grant licenses, accept improvements and convey lands along the South Shore of the Allegheny River located between Eleventh Street and the 9th Street Bridge to the Sports & Exhibition Authority of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County (SEA) at a cost of One Dollar ($1.00), for the purpose of developing a public park along the South Shore of the Allegheny River.
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WHEREAS, the SEA has acquired real property and is presently constructing an expansion of the David L. Lawrence Convention Center on land located in the Second (2nd) Ward of the City of Pittsburgh; and
WHEREAS, the City of Pittsburgh and the SEA desire that additional development occur on the South Shore of the Allegheny River in the vicinity of David L. Lawrence Convention Center; and
WHEREAS, the SEA is hereby further designated by the City to develop a public park area along the South Shore of the Allegheny River on land located in the Second (2nd) Ward of the City of Pittsburgh between the 9th Street Bridge and Eleventh Street; and
WHEREAS, in order to develop this public park, the conveyance of riverfront parcels of land owned by the City, excluding any riparian rights of the City appurtenant to those and other parcels of land in the project area, to the SEA is determined to be reasonable and necessary and in the public interest; and
WHEREAS, following completion of work on this public park, the public park will be transferred by the SEA to the City of Pittsburgh.
Be it resolved that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. That the Mayor, the Director of Finance and the Director of General Services, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, are hereby authorized and directed to enter into such Agreement or Agreements and/or Cooperation Agreement or Cooperati...
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