The following is a report from Business First by Jim Fink, about my listing at 1185 Sweet Home Rd.

“Jim Fink, Buffalo Business First

A 13-acre property in Amherst that neighbors the University at Buffalo campus is being targeted by a Georgia-based developer for a proposed $50 million student-housing complex.

Landmark Properties of Georgia is working with Amherst officials on its planned “The Station at Buffalo” project that could potentially have 20 buildings developed on the largely vacant Sweet Home Road parcel. The project is just north of Maple Road and the I-290 overpass.

Landmark, working with local attorney Sean Hopkins, a founding partner of Hopkins Sorgi Romanowski PLLC, has already received the necessary rezoning needed for the project. A site-plan review is set for Jan. 17 by the Amherst Planning Board.

“They’d like to get going on this sometime this spring or summer,” Hopkins said.

The project is Landmark’s first in New York state.

“It could set a new benchmark for how student housing projects are developed locally,” Hopkins said.

The developers propose a five-story and four-story building, respectively, facing Sweet Home Road. Those structures would include apartments on the upper floors and ground level retail or restaurant space. A clubhouse and outdoor pool are part of the development.

Beyond that, plans call for the construction of 18 buildings that could house a total of 196 units. Both townhouses and apartments are in the blueprints.

If approved and construction begins this year, the first buildings could be student-ready by the fall 2020 semester.”