The Planning Board will hold a public hearing on site plans by Cumberland Farms to demolish its operation on Suffield Street and construction a new building with gasoline pumps.
AGAWAM — Cumberland Farms of Framingham would like to demolish its existing convenience store and gasoline station on Suffield Street and construct a new building to house the operation.
Site plans for the project at 837 Suffield St. will be the subject of a Planning Board public hearing Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Agawam Public Library. The Conservation Commission on April 22 approved an order of conditions for the project as it has a perennial stream along its southern boundary.
The site consists of 3.36 acres on the east side of Suffield Street south of Silver Street. Currently there are three buildings on the property: the Parthenon Restaurant, which would remain the same; a building housing the convenience store as well as a West Coast Video; and a structure housing an automated car wash, according to material on file in the Planning Office.
The building housing the convenience store and video store would be torn down as well as the automated car wash. A new, 4,513-square-foot structure south of the existing convenience store would be constructed to house that business.
Plans also call for demolishing the existing six gas dispensers and three 10,000-gallon underground storage tanks and replacing them with six new gas dispensers, a new gas canopy and two new 15,000-gallon underground storage tanks.
A parking lot with 72 parking spaces with drive aisles, sidewalks and landscaped islands has also been proposed.
A traffic study for Cumberland Farms by Fuss & O’Neill of West Springfield reports that about 12,000 vehicles a day pass by the property on Suffield Street. The study projects that there will be 24 fewer vehicle trips during the weekday peak afternoon traffic hour.
Fuss & O’Neill senior project manager Stephen J. Savaria wrote in his traffic study that the proposed changes are not projected to have any noticeable impact on traffic conditions along Suffield Street.
No one from Cumberland Farms could be reached for comment.