Matters ▸ Attachment
07.11.24 CC SUBSTITUTED Deed Leonard Grimes Park to City FINAL — File 24-0987
QUITCLAIM DEED
TUFTS GLEN POCKET PARK LLC, a Massachusetts limited liability company, with an address of 40 Homer
Street, Newton, Massachusetts 02459, for consideration paid and in full consideration of One Dollar
($1.00) grants to The CITY OF SOMERVILLE, a municipal corporation, with municipal offices at 93 Highland
Avenue, Somerville, MA 02143
WITH QUITCLAIM COVENANTS
A certain parcel of land situated at the northeast corner of the intersection of Glen Street and Tufts
Street in the City of Somerville, being shown as “Lot 2” on the ‘Lot Split Plan of Land at 31 Tufts Street
Somerville MA – Middlesex County’ prepared by Joyce Consulting Group, PC dated March 2, 2022 and
recorded in the Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds as Plan number 302 of 2022 (the “Plan”), and
bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a point of land at the northeast corner of the intersection of Glen Street and Tufts Street
thence running northeasterly, along the northerly line of Glen Street, at a bearing N 55º 33’ 42” E, one
hundred and fifteen (115.0) feet to a point;
Thence turning northerly, running along lands of Glen Condos LLC, at bearing N 34º 26’ 18” W, thirty-
seven (37.0) feet to a point;
Thence turning westerly, running along lands of ‘Lot 1’ at bearing S 55º 33’ 42” W, one hundred and
fifteen (115.0) feet to a point in the easterly line of Tufts Street;
Thence turning southerly, running along the easterly line of Tufts Street, at bearing S 34º 26’ 18” E,
thirty-seven (37.0) feet to the point and place of beginning.
Containing four thousand two hundred fifty-five (4,255) square feet more or less.
This Quitclaim Deed shall be subject to the following restrictive covenants, which shall run with the land
and be binding upon the grantee and the grantee’s successors and assigns: the property described
herein be set aside as open space in perpetuity and maintained as a pocket park in accordance with
standards for such parks established by the City of Somerville.
PROPERTY ADDRESS: 31 TUFTS STREET, LOT 2, SOMERVILLE, MA
This conveyance is subject to a “Transformer Access and Maintenance Easement” and an “Underground
Electric Conduit Easement” across a portion of Lot 2 which have been granted exclusively to the owner
of Lot 1, its successors and assigns, for the installation, removal, maintenance, inspection, repair,
replacement and reconfiguration of the transformer and conduit, and the enclosure regarding the
transformer, now located on Lot 2 in the location shown on the plan attached to the Quitclaim Deed
dated May 16, 2022 and recorded at the Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds in Book 80154, Page
207 (being labeled on said Plan as the “Transformer Access and Maintenance Easement Area” and the
“Underground Electric Conduit Easement Area”, respectively).
This conveyance is subject to a “Walkway Easement” across a portion of Lot 2 which has been granted
exclusively to the owner of 163 Glen Street, Somerville, Massachusetts, its successors and assigns, for
the installation, removal, maintenance, inspection, repair and replacement of a walkway which is to be
used solely by the occupants of 163 Glen Street, Somerville, Massachusetts for the sole purpose of
passage by foot, being in the location shown on the plan attached to the Quitclaim Deed dated May 16,
2022 and recorded at the Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds in Book 80154, Page 207 (the
“Walkway Easement Area”).
The “Public Access Easement” and the “Public Access and Maintenance Easement,” both easements as
described in the Deed conveying Lot 2 to Tufts Glen Pocket Park LLC, as recorded in the Middlesex South
District Registry of Deeds on Book 80154, Page 207, are both null and void and of no further force or
effect.
To the extent required by the covenant found in paragraph a) of the May 16, 2022, Quitclaim Deed from
the City to the Grantor, the City of Somerville hereby consents to the Grantor’s transfer of title of Lot 2
by this Deed.
Being the property conveyed to Grantor by Quitclaim Deed dated May 16, 2022, and recorded at the
Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds in Book 80154, Page 207.
The undersigned Grantor represents and warrants to the Grantee, its successors and assigns, that the
Grantor has full power and authority to convey the above-described premises to the Grantee and that
this conveyance is in the normal business practice of Grantor.
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Witness my hand and seal this ___ day of July, 2024.
TUFTS GLEN POCKET PARK LLC
By:
__________________________________
Name: Eliza Edelsberg Datta
Title: Authorized Signatory
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX
ss.
On this ______ day of ______________, 2024, before me, the undersigned notary public, Eliza
Edelsberg Datta personally appeared, proved to me through satisfactory evidence of identification, which
was a [current driver’s license] [a current U.S. passport] [my personal knowledge], to be the person whose
name is signed on the preceding instrument, and acknowledged to me that she signed it voluntarily for its
stated purpose as the Authorized Signatory of TUFTS GLEN POCKET PARK LLC, as the voluntary act of
TUFTS GLEN POCKET PARK LLC.
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Notary Public
My Commission Expires: