TOWN OF FLORIDA — Winstanley Enterprises has proposed a new business park on roughly 500 acres along Route 30 in the town of Florida.
The developer is seeking to establish a Planned Unit Development which would require rezoning the land to permit the proposed use. The Planning Board will hold a public hearing on the proposal at 6:40 p.m. on Monday at the “Old” Town Hall at 167 Fort Hunter Road.
The intent of the development is to create a business park just south of state Thruway Exit 27 along Route 30 based on the demand for large logistics facilities that would complement Montgomery County’s business park on Route 5S, according to conceptual plans prepared by Bohler Engineering posted on the town website.
The business park would straddle Route 30 with a 2 million square foot building on the western side reachable from Thruview Drive and a pair of buildings respectively measuring 300,0000 and 400,000 square feet on the eastern side reachable from Belldons Road.
The facilities would be built to suit tenants for commercial and light industrial uses. No tenants were identified in the project documents. Full site development would lead to around several hundred new vehicle trips to the site during peak morning hours.
The roughly 500-acre proposed project area spans five separate parcels in the town’s Agriculture Zoning District. The majority of the land is owned by Nadler Brothers Inc. of Ballston Spa with about 168 acres owned by Karen and Larry Francisco.
The site consists primarily of vacant fields, some of which is farmed. A pair of homes and another vacant structure within the PUD would be demolished. Two large solar arrays are south of the project area on opposite sides of Route 30. A mix of homes, small businesses and active farms are found further south.
Travel related businesses surrounding the Thruway exit are north of the site within the city of Amsterdam. Six homes on the western side of Route 30 are adjacent to the proposed project area.
The developer would seek to extend existing nearby water and sewer lines running from Venner Road in Amsterdam to the project site working in conjunction with the town of Florida to service the proposed commercial buildings.
Amsterdam and Montgomery County have already commissioned engineering studies to evaluate the extension of utilities to serve the area south of Thruway Exit 27, according to the plan documents.
Site development would avoid wetlands within the PUD boundary. Stormwater management plans would be developed to address impacts from the new building construction and installation of parking areas that would span roughly 120 acres total covering about 30% of the available space. Around 400 acres would be maintained as open or green space.
The PUD proposed by Winstanley bears similarity to another of the developer’s plans within the town to construct a one million square foot warehouse on roughly 143 acres of vacant land on Route 5S across from the Target Distribution Center.
The Florida Planning Board previously granted site plan approval for the build-to-suit warehouse project that Winstanley began marketing to potential tenants around early 2020. There has yet to be any movement on that project.
Locals will have a chance to comment on the proposed PUD during Monday’s scheduled public hearing. Written comments can also be submitted to the Planning Board by email at [email protected]
Representatives of Winstanley did not return a call seeking comment for this story on Friday.
Reach Ashley Onyon at [email protected] or @AshleyOnyon on Twitter.
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