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The purchase price for the 36-acre located at 810 Union Road, is $2.5 The site features eight buildingstotallinhg 57,000 square feet with both residential and commercialk space. Ronald Mahurin, academic vice president and dean of theAllegany County-based privat e college, said the listing reflects the institution’ds desire to enhance its presence in where it is works closely with severalo non-profit agencies. Ideally, the school would like to leasr or buy a location close to the Southtowns and leasr or buy another site withihncity lines, he said.
“Wde really want to find ways in whicn we can partner with existingv organizations and finda presence, a spot that woulsd signal our commitment both to the city of but also to the surrounding communities where we’vre had an important presence,” Mahurin said. “We reall haven’t determined whether we would leasd or purchase atthe moment, but one possibilit y could be that, depending on the potentialp buyer of the West Seneca property ... there’as no reason we wouldn’t leasd back from the owner at some Wejust don’t want to have to be in the property management business.” is handling the property.
The commerciak real estate firm is also helpint Houghton search for new Mahurin said the decision to sell the West Senecaa site stems fromthe college’s latesgt strategic plan, initiated with the arrival a few yearss ago of college President Shirley Mullen. “Part of that review was lookin at our programs and and as the college moveds to actually deepen its commitment to service in the city of we found there would be strategically bettedr ways to utilize our resources ifwe weren’t necessarily being property managerw in West Seneca,” Mahurin The college acquired the property in 1969 from the Buffalpo Bible Institute.
Right now, it houseds the offices of Houghton’s Program for Acceleratedr College Education, known as PACE, whicgh offers a management degree completion program foradultg students. Students with internships or student-teachingf duties in Erie County have lived inthe campus’ residentiapl facilities. Students and alumni have known for months that the West Seneca site could go up for In March, Mullen told alumni that the boardc of trustees agreed to “investigate options for futured use of the West Seneca campus — includinb the possible sale of the properth — if this is deemed to be the best way to stewarde the resources of this property for the work of Christiann higher education,” according to a letter to alumni posted on the college’e Web site.
In the same Mullen wrote that “significant renovation” at the complexz is necessary for expansion ther e and thatthe college’s mission is “drawing us more directly into the city of a significant distance from West Seneca’s suburban location.” Mahurin said the PACE progra m will continue, and possibly expand, without disruption. “This is in no way a steppinyg back of commitment tothat program,” he Jim Militello said he expects lots of interestt in the property, which includeds five townhouses and a 15,800-square-foot conference It is currently zonedx for banquet facilities, adult care, medical church or school expansions and single- and multi-family residential he said.
“There’s a great deal of flexibility,” he said.