SB 34 — 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.

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
 1   Authorizing the Department of General Services, with the
 2      approval of the Governor, to grant and convey to the
 3      Philadelphia Housing Authority certain lands situate in the
 4      City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County.
 5      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 6   hereby enacts as follows:
 7   Section 1.    Conveyance in City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
 8                 County.
 9      (a)     Authorization.--The Department of General Services, with
10   the approval of the Governor, is hereby authorized on behalf of
11   the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to grant and convey to the
12   Philadelphia Housing Authority certain land and buildings
13   situate in the City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, for
14   $50,000.
15      (b)     Property description.--The property to be conveyed under
16   subsection (a) consists of approximately 1.71 acres and
17   improvements thereon, bounded and more particularly described as
18   follows:
19      ALL THOSE CERTAIN Lots or pieces of ground with the buildings
 1   and improvements thereon erected, situate in the Twenty-ninth
 2   Ward of the City of Philadelphia, and described as follows:
 3      One Thereof, Beginning at the point of intersection of the
 4   Southerly side of South College Avenue and the Northerly side of
 5   Poplar Street; thence extending Eastwardly along the said
 6   Southerly side of South College Avenue, Seven hundred seventeen
 7   feet ten and three-eighths inches more or less, to a point on
 8   the Westerly side of Twenty-second Street; thence extending
 9   Southwardly along said Westerly side of Twenty-second Street,
10   Two hundred twenty-one feet five inches more or less, to a point
11   on the Northerly side of Poplar Street; thence extending along
12   said Northerly side of Poplar Street Westwardly Six hundred
13   eighty-one feet seven inches more or less, to the Southerly side
14   of South College Avenue, and place of beginning.
15      Another Thereof, Beginning at a point of intersection of the
16   Southerly side of South College Avenue and the Easterly side of
17   Twenty-second Street; thence extending Eastwardly along the
18   Southerly side of said South College Avenue Five hundred sixty-
19   four feet four and five-eighths inches more or less, to a point
20   on the Southerly side of Girard Avenue; thence extending
21   Eastwardly along said Southerly side of Girard Avenue, One
22   hundred sixty-nine feet four and seven-eighths inches more or
23   less, to a point on the Westerly side of Corinthian Avenue;
24   thence extending Southwardly along said Westerly side of
25   Corinthian Avenue, Four hundred fourteen feet five-eighths of an
26   inch more or less to a point on the Northerly side of Poplar
27   Street; thence Westwardly along the Northerly side of Poplar
28   Street, Seven hundred fifteen feet four and seven-eighths inches
29   more or less, to a point on the Easterly side of Twenty-second
30   Street; thence extending Northwardly along said Easterly side of

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 1   Twenty-second Street, Two hundred forty feet ten and seven-
 2   eighths inches, more or less, to South College Avenue and place
 3   of beginning.
 4      BEING known as 2100 West Girard Avenue.
 5      Being inter alia the same premises which The Lankenau
 6   Hospital, a Corporation of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by
 7   Deed dated 7/9/1952 and recorded 7/11/1952 in Philadelphia
 8   County in Deed Book MLS 152 Page 372 conveyed unto The General
 9   State Authority, a Public Corporation and Governmental
10   Instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, its
11   Successors and Assigns, in fee.
12      KNOWN AS the former Philadelphia Nursing Home, 2100 W. Girard
13   Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19130, TAX ID # 881444600
14      CONTAINING 1.71-acres, more or less.
15      (c)   Subject to certain matters.--The conveyance authorized
16   under this section shall be made under and subject to all lawful
17   and enforceable easements, servitudes, and rights of others,
18   including, but not confined to, streets, roadways and rights of
19   any telephone, telegraph, water, electric, gas or pipeline
20   companies, as well as under and subject to any lawful and
21   enforceable estates or tenancies vested in third persons
22   appearing of record, for any portion of the land or improvements
23   erected thereon.
24      (d)   Prohibited use.--The conveyance authorized under this
25   section shall be made under and subject to the condition, which
26   shall be contained in the deed of conveyance, that no portion of
27   the property conveyed shall be used as a licensed facility, as
28   defined in 4 Pa.C.S. § 1103 (relating to definitions), or any
29   other similar type of facility authorized under State law. The
30   condition shall be a covenant running with the land and shall be

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 1   binding upon the grantee, its successors and assigns. Should the
 2   grantee, its successors or assigns, permit any portion of the
 3   property authorized to be conveyed under this section to be used
 4   in violation of this subsection, the title shall immediately
 5   revert to and revest in the grantor.
 6      (e)   Use restriction.--The conveyance authorized under this
 7   section shall be made under and subject to the condition that
 8   the Philadelphia Housing Authority, its successors and assigns,
 9   shall develop the property solely as a senior living facility
10   and a mixed-income affordable housing project, which may include
11   a mixed-use component to support the underlying affordable
12   housing development, such development to be completed, as
13   evidenced by issuance of a certificate of occupancy for each
14   component of the development, within five years after the date
15   of conveyance. If the development cannot be completed within
16   such period with the exercise of due diligence, the Department
17   of General Services may authorize a longer period for
18   completion, not to exceed 10 years. Should the Philadelphia
19   Housing Authority, or its successors or assigns, develop the
20   property for any other purpose, or not complete the development
21   within the time provided, the property shall, at the Department
22   of General Service's election, revert and revest in the
23   Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This provision is intended to
24   create a fee simple subject to a condition subsequent. This
25   condition shall terminate upon the first to occur of the
26   following:
27            (1)   on the date of completion of the development as
28      evidenced by issuance of certificates of occupancy for each
29      component of the project;
30            (2)   the reversion of the property to the Commonwealth of

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 1      Pennsylvania; or
 2            (3)   the waiver by the Department of General Services of
 3      the reversion.
 4      (f)   Conditions and restrictions.--The Secretary of General
 5   Services may include in the deed of conveyance any covenants,
 6   conditions or restrictions on the property as determined to be
 7   in the best interests of the Commonwealth.
 8      (g)   Sublease termination.--The conveyance authorized under
 9   this section shall be conditioned upon the termination of the
10   existing sublease (LML 1976-1) between the Commonwealth of
11   Pennsylvania and the City of Philadelphia effective as of the
12   date of the conveyance.
13      (h)   Easements.--The Department of General Services is hereby
14   authorized, on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to
15   grant any easements benefiting the property to be conveyed, or
16   to retain any easements from the property to be conveyed, as the
17   Secretary of General Services shall determine to be necessary or
18   appropriate.
19      (i)   Deed.--The conveyance authorized under this section
20   shall be made by a special warranty deed to be executed by the
21   Secretary of General Services in the name of the Commonwealth of
22   Pennsylvania.
23      (j)   Costs and fees.--Costs and fees incidental to this
24   conveyance shall be borne by the grantee.
25      (k)   Alternative disposition.--If the conveyance authorized
26   under this section is not executed within 24 months after the
27   effective date of this subsection, the property may be disposed
28   of by a competitive bidding process in accordance with section
29   2405-A of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known as
30   The Administrative Code of 1929, except that no property

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1   disposition plan shall be required.
2      (l)   Proceeds.--The proceeds from the conveyance authorized
3   under this section shall be deposited into the General Fund.
4   Section 2.   Effective date.
5      This act shall take effect immediately.




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