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Depew planning board recommends Village Board approve site plan for special‑education campus at former call center
Summary
The Village of Depew Planning Board voted to recommend a negative SEQR declaration and to recommend the Village Board accept a site plan to redevelop 2911–2951 Walden Avenue into an education campus serving grades 1–12 with special needs programs; recommendations include a condition to review State DOT comments.
The Village of Depew Planning Board on May 1 voted to recommend the Village Board issue a negative SEQR (Short Environmental Assessment Form) declaration and to recommend approval of a site plan to convert the former HSBC call center at 2911–2951 Walden Avenue into an education campus serving students in grades 1 through 12 with special needs.
Attorney James Maglioli, representing Benderson Development, said the project would reuse the existing roughly 78,000-square-foot building and add approximately 40,808 square feet of new construction, including two gym additions (about 15,997 and 16,519 square feet), a 1,200-square-foot staff room and about 6,300 square feet of mechanical space. "It's the former HSBC mortgage call center. It's been vacant for a number of years since COVID," Maglioli said.
The nut graf: the Planning Board's action clears a major procedural hurdle but does not grant final municipal approval; the board recommended…
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