The Planning Board voted on Tuesday, June 5, to extend the permits issued for the Windows of the Green building project for two years and were notified of a pending sale of the project.
Rob Levesque of R. Levesque Associates said this morning that a sale of both the property, located on the corner of Court and Broad streets, and the project, as permitted by the Planning Board, is pending to a regional dental practice.
Baystate Dental Care, LLC, which currently has 11 offices in the area, is planning to expand into Westfield and has entered a sale and purchase agreement with Windows on the Green LLC.
“They have told us that they want to construct the building according to the plans that were presented to the Planning Board,” Levesque said.
The sale is expected to be closed by July 6, 2012.
The board issued a special permit, a site plan approval and a stormwater management permit on Dec. 7, 2010 to allow construction of 24,481-square-foot, three-story building at 29 Broad St., with a 68 space parking lot. The building was permitted with drive-thru lanes for a financial institution. The facades facing Court and Broad streets will be brick.
The Planning Board issued a second special permit on April 5, 2011 for shared parking with the First United Methodist Church located at the corner of Court Street and Holland Avenue, which sold the property to the Windows on the Green LLC group.
Levesque said that any modification of the plan, as approved, would require the approval of the Planning Board or Building Superintendent Jonathan Flagg.
The offices of the R. Levesque Associates is currently in the building on the property, the former Pease-Healy Funeral Home, and would have to relocate for demolition of that structure before construction of the new building can begin.
]”I’d like to be a tenant if they do a condo scenario,” Levesque said. “I want to own my own space. I’d like someplace downtown, so we’re looking at a couple of different locations.”
Levesque said that he wants to complete the sale before negotiating a deal with the new building owners. Currently his business is occupying the existing building on a month-to-month lease.
