Developer submits medical campus plans to Planning Board

March 30, 2017 | G. Michael Dobbs
news@thereminder.com



LONGMEADOW – The town’s Planning Board accepted the site plan and other documents for the proposed medical campus that crosses the East Longmeadow-Longmeadow line at its meeting on May 23.

Michael Crawley, the developer, explained to Reminder Publications the 20-acre location would have a two-story 50,000-square-foot medical office building in which Baystate Health would be the tenant, a two-story 25,000-square-foot conventional office building, two additional buildings that would be associated with Berkshire Health, including a 131-bed skilled nursing facility to replace the existing 119-bed facility at 305 Maple St. in East Longmeadow, and an assisted living facility.

About 13 acres of the development are in East Longmeadow and the remaining seven acres are in Longmeadow, he noted.

Planning Board members Walter Gunn, Ken Taylor and Chairman Bruce Colton voted unanimously to accept eight copies of the site plan documents that will be distributed to the rest of the board members as well as other town departments.

A public hearing has been tentatively scheduled for May 3.

In another development that has been brought before the Planning Board, Town Manager Stephen Crane reported the proposal to alter the Pride gas station at the Longmeadow town line on U.S. Route 5 has stopped at least for the time being.

The Planning Board required a traffic plan to be undertaken that would examine how an expansion of the station would affect traffic patterns at the intersection. Crane said Pride management has not agreed to the scope of the study.

“Due to a lack of cooperation, we’re at an impasse,” Crane said.

Pride had wanted to expand the Longmeadow station and build a drive-through bakery operation on the property – which is in Enfield, CT – that abuts the Longmeadow location. The two buildings would have been connected by a driveway.

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