Section 1. The Department of General Services, with the approval of the Governor, is hereby authorized and directed on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to grant and convey to Citadel Development Company, a Pennsylvania corporation, its successors and assigns, for a consideration of $13,275, a tract of land situate in the City of Erie, County of Erie, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows:
Tract No. 1
All that certain land or property situated in the City of Erie, encompassing a portion of Front Street, an unopened and unused portion of a street in the City of Erie, and more particularly bounded and described as follows to wit:
Beginning at the southwesterly corner of the piece at a point in the southerly line of Front Street (variable width), said point of beginning being the northwesterly corner of Parcel "E" and the northeasterly corner of Parcel "F" as per record in Erie County Map Book 34, Page 98; thence north 13 degrees 02 minutes 32 seconds west, passing through said Front Street, a distance of 101.61 feet to a point; thence north 28 degrees 39 minutes 26 seconds west, continuing through said Front Street, a distance of 41.36 feet to a point in the northerly line of said Front Street; thence north 63 degrees 41 minutes 35 seconds east, along the northerly line of said Front Street and along the southerly line of the Water Lots in front of the Second Section of the City of Erie, as established by an Act of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania dated January 23, 1838, a distance of 527.00 feet to a point at its intersection with the northerly line of the Bayfront Parkway (70-foot right-of-way); thence in a southwesterly direction, along said northerly line of the Bayfront Parkway, and along a curve to the left, having a radius of 751.20 feet, an arc length of 275.29 feet to a point of tangency; thence south 25 degrees 56 minutes 30 seconds west, continuing along said northerly line of the Bayfront Parkway, a distance of 33.92 feet to a point in the southerly line of said West Front Street; thence south 64 degrees 54 minutes 22 seconds west, along said southerly line of West Front Street, a distance of 278.50 feet to a point and the place of beginning.
Containing 54,379 square feet, or 1.248 acres of land, therein, net measure. It is the expressed intent of the foregoing Legal Description to include all of Front Street (as Front Street may lie, be described or be shown on maps, plats, plans, surveys or statutes) bound on the east by the Bayfront Parkway (70-foot right-of-way) and bound on the west by the eastern bank of Cascade Creek (said bank shown as a dashed line labeled north 13 degrees 02 minutes 32 seconds west 101.61 feet and north 28 degrees 39 minutes 26 seconds west 100.77 feet on a plan of subdivision recorded in Erie County Map Book 34, Page 98).
Tract No. 2
All that certain piece or parcel of land situated in the City of Erie, County of Erie, State of Pennsylvania, being part of the Fourth Ward and being more particularly bounded and described as follows, to wit:
Beginning at the southwesterly corner of the piece at a point in the center line of Cranberry Street (60-foot right-of-way), distance thereon north 26 degrees 20 minutes 50 seconds west 378.22 feet from its intersection with the center line of West Second Street (60-foot right-of-way), said point of beginning also being at the intersection of the center line of said Cranberry Street with the westerly extension of the southerly line of West Front Street (variable width); thence north 26 degrees 20 minutes 50 seconds west, along the center line of said Cranberry Street, a distance of 100.28 feet to a point in the westerly extension of the northerly line of West Front Street; thence north 63 degrees 41 minutes 35 seconds east, along the northerly line of said West Front Street and along the southerly line of the Water Lots in front of the Second Section of the City of Erie, as established by an Act of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, dated January 23, 1838, a distance of 995.98 feet to a point; thence south 28 degrees 39 minutes 26 seconds east, passing through said Front Street, a distance of 41.36 feet to a point; thence south 13 degrees 02 minutes 32 seconds west, continuing through said Front Street, a distance of 101.61 feet to a point in the southerly line of said West Front Street, said point being the northwesterly corner of Parcel "E" and the northeasterly corner of Parcel "F" as per record in Erie County Map Book 34, Page 98, of a 2.949 acre parcel of land portion of West Front Street (variable width) which is to be vacated through lands under contract to be purchased by Citadel Development Company; thence south 64 degrees 54 minutes 22 seconds west, along said southerly line of West Front Street, a distance of 223.29 feet to a point in the easterly line of Raspberry Street (60-foot right-of-way); thence south 63 degrees 39 minutes 35 seconds west, passing through said Raspberry Street, a distance of 30 feet to a point in the center line of said Raspberry Street; thence south 26 degrees 20 minutes 25 seconds west along the center line of said Raspberry Street, a distance of 15.96 feet to a point; thence south 63 degrees 39 minutes 35 seconds west, passing through said Raspberry Street, a distance of 30.00 feet to a point in the westerly line of said Raspberry Street; thence south 67 degrees 55 minutes 56 seconds west, along the southerly line of said West Front Street and along the north line of Square No. 1, as shown on the General Plan of the Second Section, of the Town of Erie, a distance of 692.96 feet to a point in the center line of Cranberry Street and the place of beginning.
Containing 128,465 square feet, or 2.949 acres of land, therein, net measure. It is the expressed intent of the foregoing Legal Description to include all of West Front Street (as West Front Street may lie, be described or be shown on maps, plats, plans, surveys or statutes) being bound on the west by the center line of Cranberry Street and bound on the east by the east bank of Cascade Creek (said bank shown as a dashed line labeled north 13 degrees 02 minutes 32 seconds west 101.61 feet and north 28 degrees 39 minutes 26 seconds west 100.77 feet, on a plan of subdivision recorded in Erie County Map Book 34, Page 98).