PASSED

This enacted ordinance authorized Philadelphia officials to enter agreements with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority for the expansion, renovation, financing, operation, and management of the Pennsylvania Convention Center. It also authorized transferring the existing convention center improvements to the Commonwealth through the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development, leasing the underlying land to the Commonwealth, making required city service-fee payments, and establishing workforce participation and apprenticeship goals for the construction project.

Authorizing the Director of Finance, Commissioner of Public Property and other officials of the City to execute either directly or through the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development various agreements, instruments of conveyance and other transactional documents by and among the City, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority related to the development, construction, financing, operation and management of an expanded Pennsylvania Convention Center and including the defeasance of outstanding Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority bonds, the release of the lien of the Trust Indenture dated as of December 15, 1989, as amended and supplemented, relating to such bonds, the termination of the existing Lease and Service Agreement, the sale of the existing Convention Center building and improvements to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development for further conveyance to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, or its designee and the exe...