PRINTER'S NO. 13
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.34
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY STREET AND COSTA, JANUARY 22, 2025
REFERRED TO STATE GOVERNMENT, JANUARY 22, 2025
AN ACT
Authorizing the Department of General Services, with the
approval of the Governor, to grant and convey to the
Philadelphia Housing Authority certain lands situate in the
City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Conveyance in City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
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 to the
Philadelphia Housing Authority certain land and buildings
situate in the City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, for
$50,000.
(b) Property description.--The property to be conveyed under
subsection (a) consists of approximately 1.71 acres and
improvements thereon, bounded and more particularly described as
follows:
ALL THOSE CERTAIN Lots or pieces of ground with the buildings
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19 and improvements thereon erected, situate in the Twenty-ninth
Ward of the City of Philadelphia, and described as follows:
One Thereof, Beginning at the point of intersection of the
Southerly side of South College Avenue and the Northerly side of
Poplar Street; thence extending Eastwardly along the said
Southerly side of South College Avenue, Seven hundred seventeen
feet ten and three-eighths inches more or less, to a point on
the Westerly side of Twenty-second Street; thence extending
Southwardly along said Westerly side of Twenty-second Street,
Two hundred twenty-one feet five inches more or less, to a point
on the Northerly side of Poplar Street; thence extending along
said Northerly side of Poplar Street Westwardly Six hundred
eighty-one feet seven inches more or less, to the Southerly side
of South College Avenue, and place of beginning.
Another Thereof, Beginning at a point of intersection of the
Southerly side of South College Avenue and the Easterly side of
Twenty-second Street; thence extending Eastwardly along the
Southerly side of said South College Avenue Five hundred sixty-
four feet four and five-eighths inches more or less, to a point
on the Southerly side of Girard Avenue; thence extending
Eastwardly along said Southerly side of Girard Avenue, One
hundred sixty-nine feet four and seven-eighths inches more or
less, to a point on the Westerly side of Corinthian Avenue;
thence extending Southwardly along said Westerly side of
Corinthian Avenue, Four hundred fourteen feet five-eighths of an
inch more or less to a point on the Northerly side of Poplar
Street; thence Westwardly along the Northerly side of Poplar
Street, Seven hundred fifteen feet four and seven-eighths inches
more or less, to a point on the Easterly side of Twenty-second
Street; thence extending Northwardly along said Easterly side of
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30 Twenty-second Street, Two hundred forty feet ten and seven-
eighths inches, more or less, to South College Avenue and place
of beginning.
BEING known as 2100 West Girard Avenue.
Being inter alia the same premises which The Lankenau
Hospital, a Corporation of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by
Deed dated 7/9/1952 and recorded 7/11/1952 in Philadelphia
County in Deed Book MLS 152 Page 372 conveyed unto The General
State Authority, a Public Corporation and Governmental
Instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, its
Successors and Assigns, in fee.
KNOWN AS the former Philadelphia Nursing Home, 2100 W. Girard
Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19130, TAX ID # 881444600
CONTAINING 1.71-acres, more or less.
(c) Subject to certain matters.--The conveyance authorized
under this section 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) Prohibited use.--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. ยง 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
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grantee, its successors or assigns, permit any portion of the
property authorized to be conveyed under this section to be used
in violation of this subsection, the title shall immediately
revert to and revest in the grantor.
(e) Use restriction.--The conveyance authorized under this
section shall be made under and subject to the condition that
the Philadelphia Housing Authority, its successors and assigns,
shall develop the property solely as a senior living facility
and a mixed-income affordable housing project, which may include
a mixed-use component to support the underlying affordable
housing development, such development to be completed, as
evidenced by issuance of a certificate of occupancy for each
component of the development, within five years after the date
of conveyance. If the development cannot be completed within
such period with the exercise of due diligence, the Department
of General Services may authorize a longer period for
completion, not to exceed 10 years. Should the Philadelphia
Housing Authority, or its successors or assigns, develop the
property for any other purpose, or not complete the development
within the time provided, the property shall, at the Department
of General Service's election, revert and revest in the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This provision is intended to
create a fee simple subject to a condition subsequent. This
condition shall terminate upon the first to occur of the
following:
(1) on the date of completion of the development as
evidenced by issuance of certificates of occupancy for each
component of the project;
(2) the reversion of the property to the Commonwealth of
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30 Pennsylvania; or
(3) the waiver by the Department of General Services of
the reversion.
(f) Conditions and restrictions.--The Secretary of General
Services may include in the deed of conveyance any covenants,
conditions or restrictions on the property as determined to be
in the best interests of the Commonwealth.
(g) Sublease termination.--The conveyance authorized under
this section shall be conditioned upon the termination of the
existing sublease (LML 1976-1) between the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania and the City of Philadelphia effective as of the
date of the conveyance.
(h) Easements.--The Department of General Services is hereby
authorized, on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to
grant any easements benefiting the property to be conveyed, or
to retain any easements from the property to be conveyed, as the
Secretary of General Services shall determine to be necessary or
appropriate.
(i) Deed.--The conveyance authorized under this section
shall be made by a special warranty deed to be executed by the
Secretary of General Services in the name of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania.
(j) Costs and fees.--Costs and fees incidental to this
conveyance shall be borne by the grantee.
(k) Alternative disposition.--If the conveyance authorized
under this section is not executed within 24 months after the
effective date of this subsection, the property may be disposed
of by a competitive bidding process in accordance with section
2405-A of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known as
The Administrative Code of 1929, except that no property
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(l) Proceeds.--The proceeds from the conveyance authorized
under this section shall be deposited into the General Fund.
Section 2. Effective date.
This act shall take effect immediately.
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