Section 4. Pittsburgh State Office Building, Allegheny County.
(a) Authorization.--The Department of General Services, with the approval of the Governor, is hereby authorized on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to grant and convey the following tract of land together with any buildings, structures or improvements thereon situate in the First and Second Wards of the City of Pittsburgh, County of Allegheny, Pennsylvania. The department shall sell the property using a public solicitation for proposals.
(b) Description.--The property to be conveyed pursuant to subsection (a) consists of approximately 1.26 acres and an office building bounded and more particularly described as follows:
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situate in the First and Second Wards of the City of Pittsburgh, County of Allegheny and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, designated as Block 1 G, Lot Number 43, said parcel being more fully bounded and described as follows:
BEGINNING at a point on the Northerly line of the Boulevard of the Allies, a street eighty and nine one-hundredths (80.09) feet wide; said point being distant along said Northerly line of the Boulevard of the Allies North 63 degrees 49 minutes 20 seconds West a distance of 310.137 feet from the Northwest corner of said Boulevard of the Allies and Ferry Street, a street 70.08 feet wide; thence along said Northerly line of the Boulevard of the Allies North 63 degrees 49 minutes 20 seconds West a distance of 189.691 feet to a point of curve located at the point at which the Northerly line of the Boulevard of the Allies intersected the Easterly line of Short Street as formerly located (that is to say, as located prior to the vacation of a portion of Short Street by Ordinance No. 479 of the City of Pittsburgh, approved December 18, 1952, and of record in the Clerk's Office of the City of Pittsburgh in Ordinance Book Volume 58, Page 341); thence along the Easterly line of the unvacated portion of Short Street by the arc of a curve deflecting to the right having a radius of 34.263 feet an arc distance of 54.557 feet to a point of tangent on the Easterly line of the unvacated portion of Short Street; thence continuing along said Easterly line of the unvacated portion of Short Street North 27 degrees 24 minutes 35 seconds East a distance of 24.264 feet to a point on the Southerly line of Liberty Avenue as opened and relocated by Ordinance No. 558 of the City of Pittsburgh, approved October 18, 1951, and of record in the Clerk's Office of the City of Pittsburgh, in Ordinance Book Volume 57, Page 542 (said point being on the prolongation Southwardly of the Easterly line of Barbeau Street); thence along said Southerly line of said Liberty Avenue along the same course, viz., North 27 degrees 24 minutes 35 seconds East a distance of 42.728 feet to a point of curve; thence continuing along said Southerly line of said Liberty Avenue by the arc of a curve deflecting to the right having a radius of 223 feet an arc distance of 53.181 feet to a point of compound curve; thence continuing along said Southerly line of said Liberty Avenue by the arc of a curve deflecting to the right having a radius of 153.010 feet an arc distance of 73.383 feet to a point of tangent; thence continuing along said Southerly line of said Liberty Avenue North 68 degrees 33 minutes 09 seconds East a distance of 120.000 feet to a point; thence along line of other property of Grantor South 21 degrees 26 minutes 51 seconds East a distance of 134.490 feet to a point; thence continuing along line of other property of Grantor South 26 degrees 10 minutes 40 seconds West a distance of 216.306 feet to the point at the place of BEGINNING. All distances used in the foregoing description are United States Standard Measure.
BEING known and designated as Block and Lot 1-G-43 in the Deed Registry Office of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
CONTAINING approximately 1.26-acres, more or less.
Being the same parcel and tract of land conveyed to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of General Services, by the General State Authority in its deed, dated June 16, 1989, recorded in the Pittsburgh Recorder of Deeds Office in Deed Book Volume 8221, Page 531 and Deed of Correction, dated April 30, 1991, recorded in the Pittsburgh Recorder of Deeds Office in Deed Book Volume 8630, Page 499.
(c) Easements.--The conveyance shall be made under and subject to all lawful and enforceable easements, servitudes and rights of others, including, but not confined to, streets, roadways and rights of any telephone, telegraph, water, electric, gas or pipeline companies, as well as under and subject to any lawful and enforceable estates or tenancies vested in third persons appearing of record, for any portion of the land or improvements erected thereon.
(d) Land use restriction.--The conveyance authorized under this section shall be made under and subject to the condition, which shall be contained in the deed of conveyance, that no portion of the property conveyed shall be used as a licensed facility as defined in 4 Pa.C.S. § 1103 (relating to definitions) or any other similar type of facility authorized under State law. The condition shall be a covenant running with the land and shall be binding upon the grantee, its successors and assigns. Should the grantee, its successors or assigns, permit any portion of the property authorized to be conveyed in this section to be used in violation of this subsection, the title shall immediately revert to and revest in the grantor.
(e) Execution.--The deed of conveyance shall be by Special Warranty Deed and shall be executed by the Secretary of General Services in the name of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
(f) Costs and fees.--All costs and fees incurred by the Department of General Services in selling the property shall be paid from the purchase price, and that amount shall be an executively authorized augmentation to the appropriation from which the costs and fees were paid by the department. An amount equal to any outstanding Commonwealth general obligation debt for the renovations to the Pittsburgh State Office Building from 1989 to present shall be deducted from the proceeds of the sale of the building and deposited in the Capital Facilities Fund. The balance of the proceeds of the sale shall be deposited in the General Fund.