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Resolution authorizing the City Solicitor, on behalf of the CITY OF PITTSBURGH ("City") to Petition the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County to transfer a certain lot, known as 1811 Brownsville Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15210, Block and Lot No. 60-L-252 (the "Subject Property"), to CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH ("CLP"), in "as is" condition with the understanding that the building will be demolished and replaced with a new facility, and further without any representations as to the quality of title, for the sum of One Dollar ($1.00), plus all necessary or appropriate expenses incurred by the City, and / or upon such other terms and conditions as the Court or the City may authorize and/or direct.
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WHEREAS, the Subject Property was purchased by the City from Daniel Seemiller and Valerie Seemiller, his wife, and Pat Cox and Catherine Cox, his wife, ("Seemiller and Cox") as part of a tract of land consisting of 9,600 square feet more or less, and duly recorded at Deed Book Volume 8654, Page 510, dated February 11, 1992, recorded February 13, 1992, in the Allegheny County Department of Real Estate, formerly known as the Recorder of Deeds Office, with Subject Property being 9,600 square feet more or less, thereof, said Property then being designated as Block and Lot No. 60-L-252, and now being designated as Block and Lot No. 60-L-252; and
WHEREAS, the Subject Property was solely used as a public library; however, Subject Property is now obsolete for modern library purposes in terms of modern technologies and children's activities; and
WHEREAS, having subsequently received a development plan from CLP to redevelop Subject Property into a larger facility with infrastructure for modern library technologies and children's activities; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the restrictive notice duly recorded at Deed Book Volume 8654, Page 510, and more particularly at Page 512 therein, dated February 11, 1992, recorded February 13, 1992, in the Allegheny County Departme...
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