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SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Wesley Community is requesting approval by the City Council to amend its 37+ acre Planned Unit Development, or PUD, which will expand its existing campus and help continue to meet the needs of seniors, the organization says.
The proposed projects included in the PUD amendment are as follows:
Renovations to the existing five-story Springs Building to add approximately 5,500 square feet, resulting in a total size of 19,500 square feet. Wesley will subsequently renovate the resident rooms by decreasing the number of residents on floors 2, 3 and 4 from 44 to 36. This will yield 30% more single rooms to accommodate the needs of future admissions, Cliff Van Wagner, Pharmacy Director at The Wesley Community, told the council this week.
Plans also call for the construction of a new five-story, 100-unit apartment building consisting of 70 mostly one-bedroom independent apartments for low-to-middle income seniors and 30 supportive housing units for seniors.
“With a waiting list of two years at Embury and one year at Woodlawn, the need for this project is quite obvious,” Van Wagner said. The Wesley Community currently counts 700 seniors living on the 37-acre campus.
Additional projects include: construction of a 52-unit memory care/assisted living single-story building to accommodate seniors with significant dementia; construction of a new two-story 4,000 square foot office building to support the functions of the various needs of the projects within the PUD, and the demolition of an unoccupied residence at 26 Russell St., while expanding a storage garage at the same site.
“The approval of the council is to amend PUD legislation. It is not to begin construction. We fully realize that each individual project will require an application to the Planning Board for site plan approval, which we intend to do.”
The PUD amendment request will remain as an open public hearing until the council votes on the matter. A date for that vote was not set.
