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Eastview hotel development depends on town infrastructure upgrade
Upgrades to a town-owned pump station near Eastview Mall will be necessary before developers can build an Element by Westin hotel. (Rendering from documents provided to the Victor Planning Board)
Upgrades to a town-owned pump station near Eastview Mall will be necessary before developers can build an Element by Westin hotel. (Rendering from documents provided to the Victor Planning Board)
Eastview hotel development depends on town infrastructure upgrade
Listen to this articleDevelopment of the proposed 123-room Element by Westin on the Eastview Mall property will be contingent upon upgrades to a pump station that would handle wastewater from the hotel.
The development team and members of the Victor Planning Board are expected to continue discussions over the next month on the best way to proceed as improvements to the pump station are contemplated.
Eastview Mall LLC has proposed building a four-story, 23,580 square foot hotel on the southwest quadrant of mall property, between JCPenney and the future site of a Bass Pro Shops store.
But the current pump/lift station serving properties in that area of the mall is already nearing capacity and would not be able to accommodate additional wastewater from a hotel.
“P.S. 19 has to get rebuilt and this project actually brings the impetus for this to happen sooner, rather than later,” project engineer Peter Vars, president of BME Associates, told the planning board on Wednesday.
The issue for those involved: who will pay the $1.4 million to expand capacity. The hotel developer anticipates that the hotel will contribute 12 percent of the total flow to the pump station, Vars said.
As such, the developer believes paying 12 percent of the cost of upgrades would be fair.
“That’s the contributing flow, that’s the logical contribution to the upgrade,” Vars said told the board.
The town’s current capital improvement plan, however, does not include improvements to pump station 19.
“I think you have the board’s support in terms of this application, it’s a matter of how we move across the finish line,” board chair Joseph Logan said at Wednesday’s meeting.
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