Developers are planning a medical office building and surgery center and, perhaps, a parking ramp on space now used for youth sports fields between the Northtown Center and Audubon Golf Course in Amherst. It's part of a project that would reshape a large section of the town that is coming more into focus now that the town and the owner of the former Westwood Country Club have settled the financial terms.
Amherst officials and owners of the former Westwood Country Club tentatively have agreed to financial terms on a land swap that could launch $300 million in proposed private and public development.
For eight years, Amherst leaders, owners of the former Westwood Country Club and neighbors on surrounding properties have wrangled over how much development – if any – is suitable for the 170-acre site.
This project is the launching point for an ambitious redevelopment of the town’s athletic fields and Audubon Golf Course – and the transformation of the former Westwood Country Club into a nature park.
Making his 2021 re-election bid official, Kulpa, an architect and urban planner, was serving as Williamsville mayor when he won election as Amherst supervisor in 2017.
Developers are planning a medical office building and surgery center and, perhaps, a parking ramp on space now used for youth sports fields between the Northtown Center and Audubon Golf Course in Amherst. It's part of a project that would reshape a large section of the town that is coming more into focus now that the town and the owner of the former Westwood Country Club have settled the financial terms.
