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RESOLUTION RESCINDING AND REPLACING RESOLUTION NO. 22-1068; RESOLUTION OF INTENT TO SELL OR CONVEY CERTAIN PROPERTY NEAR THE DULUTH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.
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CITY PROPOSAL:
WHEREAS, Section 2-176(a) of the Duluth City Code, 1959, as amended (the “Code”), requires that prior to any city-owned property being offered for sale or conveyance, the city council shall, by resolution, state its intention to sell or convey such property;
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 2-176(a) of the Code, the city stated its intent to sell or convey certain property under Resolution No. 22-1068; and
WHEREAS, Resolution No. 22-1068 contained errors because it did not differentiate between the real property and the building attached to the real property nor contain certain information required under Section 2-176(a) of the Code.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Resolution No. 22-1068 passed on December 19, 2022 is hereby rescinded and replaced in its entirety with this resolution.
FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Duluth city council hereby states its intention to offer for sale or conveyance property in the city of Duluth legally described as:
The building and other improvements located on the real property located in St. Louis County, Minnesota described as follows (the “Building”):
The South 120.00 feet of Lot 17, Block 4, Airport Division and the South 152.13 feet of the West 65.00 feet of said Lot 17, Block 4, EXCEPT the vacated westerly adjacent spur street; Lot 1, Block 5, Airport Division; and the vacated Taylor Circle, as dedicated in said Airport Division, EXCEPT that part of said Taylor Circle lying easterly of the northerly extended centerline of the easterly portion of said Taylor Circle.
FURTHER RESOLVED, that the city’s fee simple or leasehold interest in the real property that the Building sits upon is expressly not being proposed to be sold or conveyed
Statement of Purpose
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE: The purpose of this resolution is to state the City’s intent to sell or convey property located near the Duluth International Airport. The property proposed to be sold or conveyed is legally described above (the “Incubator Building”) and is depicted on the attached Exhibit A. The City only intends to only sell or convey the Incubator Building, a 69,000 square foot structure located on the land legally described above, and not the fee simple or leasehold interest in the real property that the Incubator Building sits upon. The City desires to sell or convey the Incubator Building to provide for its continued use for aviation-related manufacturing. The current tenant of the Incubator Building is Cirrus Aircraft, an aircraft manufacturing company headquartered in Duluth (“Cirrus”).