Where We Live: Amherst

The Buffalo News

Where We Live: Amherst

A medical office building will be added to all the new development going up along Sweet Home Road, near the University at Buffalo.

The Amherst Town Board last week rezoned a one-acre parcel at 1306 Sweet Home Road, just south of Rensch Road, to general business for the development of a 5,000-square-foot single-story medical office building being proposed by Bevilacqua Development.

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Amherst Grapples with Hotel Boom

THE BUFFALO NEWS

Amherst is in the midst of a hotel boom after nearly a decade of relative dormancy in the hospitality market – and not everybody is happy about it.

Three hotels are currently under construction or working toward site-plan approval. And Supervisor Barry Weinstein is asking the Town Board today to seek proposals for another new hotel or two at the site of the Northtown Center ice rink complex.

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Amherst Fast-tracks $15 Million Luxury Apartment-hotel-retail Project

By Sandra Tan
BUFFALO NEWS STAFF REPORTER

A $15 million luxury apartment-hotel-retail project — the first of its kind in the region — was fast-tracked by the Amherst Town Board on Monday night. The 4.6-acre development will feature a 105-room Staybridge Suites hotel and two other buildings with first-floor retail and 42 luxury apartments.

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