HomeMy Public PortalAbout02198 O R D I N A N C E NO. 2198
AN ORDINANCE authorizing and directing the Executive
Director to lease certain real property of The Metropolitan St.
Louis Sewer District, lying in St. Louis County, Missouri, to the
Great Lakes Carbon Corporation and to execute a leasehold
agreement upon the conditions hereinafter set out.
WHEREAS, The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District,
hereinafter called Lessor, has acquired certain improved real
property in St. Louis County incident to its public functions and
responsibilities, said property being for anticipated future
expansion of existing facilities and located in the County of St.
Louis, State of Missouri, on the water front of the Mississippi
River in said County, and
WHEREAS, Great Lakes Carbon Corporation, a Delaware
corporation with its principal office in the City of New York,
State of New York, hereinafter called Lessee, is desirous of
leasing from Lessor a portion of said improved real property on
terms and conditions as hereafter generally set forth, and Lessor
is willing so to lease and believes the terms to be advantageous
and in the public interest so to do.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OF THE METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT:
Section One. The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer
District does hereby lease to the Great Lakes Carbon Corporation,
upon the general terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, the
following described real property:
"A tract of land in U.S. Survey 904, Township 44 North, Range
7 East, and accretions hereto in St. Louis County, Missouri,
being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a
point in the North line of the Jefferson Barracks Reservation
at an intersection with the Eastern line of the right-of-way
of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, 80 feet wide;
thence in a northerly direction along said Railroad right-of-
way, which is parallel and 40 feet distant from the
centerline of the right-of-way which centerline is more
particularly described as follows: On a 1 degree curve to
the right 795.55 feet total angle of 7 degrees 57 minutes to
a point of curve; thence along said right-of-way which is
parallel and 40 feet distant from the centerline of said
right-of-way which centerline is more particularly described
as follows: On a tangent 423.17 feet to a point of tangent
of a 2 degree curve; thence along said right-of-way to a
stone, said right-of-way which is parallel and 40 feet
distant from centerline of right-of-way which centerline is
more particularly described as follows: On a 2 degree curve
to the left 188.88 feet total angle of 3 degrees 47 minutes;
said stone being on a prolongation Westwardly of the South
line of Lot No. 1 of John C. Ivory's Subdivision of South
Carondelet Suburbs; thence along the South line of Lot No. 1
East 111.33 feet to a point; thence leaving said lot line and
running South 67 degrees 49 minutes East 835 feet to a point
in the meandering line of the Mississippi River from which
point the standard low water mark of the Mississippi River is
distant 50 feet Eastwardly; thence along the meandering line
beginning at the point above referred to, South 23 degrees 35
minutes West 121 feet at which point the standard low water
mark is 52 feet Eastwardly, South 27 degrees 44 minutes West
at 300 feet to a point from which the standard low water mark
of the Mississippi River is distant Eastwardly 67 feet, at
578.69 feet to a point from which the standard low water mark
is distant 100 feet East, South 14 degrees 22 minutes West
488.80 feet to a point in the Northern line of the Jefferson
Barracks Reservation from which point the standard low water
of the Mississippi River is distant Eastward 138 feet; thence
along the North line of said Jefferson Barracks Reservation
North 89 degrees 01 minutes West 485.18 feet to a stone;
thence North 89 degrees 01 minutes West 51.46 feet to the
point of beginning, containing 23.77 acres, more or less."
and
WHEREAS, SCHOOL SISTERS OF NOTRE DAME, (Lessor's
predecessor in title to said described property), under date of
February 24, 1953 leased the riverfront rights of said tract of
land and accretions thereto to Lessee to maintain and to moor
barges owned and operated by Lessee to certain wood pile clusters
and concrete deadmen along the river front of said described
property, and
WHEREAS, Lessor has demised and leased, and does hereby
demise and lease to Lessee the riverfront rights of said above-
described property, and accretions thereto, (hereinafter called
"the leased premises"), to be occupied and used for the period
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hereinafter specified for the mooring of barges in the river
adjacent to said above described property and the maintenance
therein and thereover of the necessary wood pile cluster and
concrete deadmen. This lease pertains only to river front with no
use of the described property by Lessee.
Section Two. The lease term shall commence on May 1,
1971, and continue for five (5) years to May 1, 1976, at the
rental of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) per year, paid in
quarterly installments of Twelve Hundred Fifty Dollars ($1,250.00)
each on the first day of May, 1971; on the first day of August,
November and February, thereafter.
Section Three. Should Lessor, at any time during the
term of the lease or any extension thereof, receive an offer to
purchase subject real property and desire to accept such offer,
then Lessee shall be given the first option to purchase such
premises upon the same terms, said Lessee being given reasonable
notice of such offer and adequate time to exercise such option.
Section Four. The Executive Director is hereby
authorized and directed to execute in behalf of the District a
Lease giving effect to Sections One, Two, Three and Four hereof
and embodying such general terms and conditions. The foregoing Ordinance was adopted August 11, 1971.