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9829 Main Street, Clarence, NY 14031 | Phone: 716-759-1715 | Fax: 716-759-1501 Letter of Intent Town of West Seneca 1250 Union Road West Seneca, New York 14224 RE: 2806 Seneca St, Bellwood School This Letter of Intent is submitted in support of our application for the adaptive reuse and conversion of the former school building located at 2806 Seneca Street into 18 multifamily housing units (mix of studios and one-bedroom units ranging from 570 sf to 1,536 sf). Our goal is to reposition this underutilized asset as a high-quality residential community. By rehabilitating a long-vacant institutional building we eliminate the risk of further deterioration and potential safety hazards and provide residential housing options for the community. The former Bellwood School has been vacant for decades. The four-story building is Colonial Revival-style and was constructed for use as a high school in 1928. The West Seneca High School helped to alleviate overcrowded conditions and provided up-to-date gymnasium and auditorium facilities. In 1950, the district opened a new high school building at Main and Seneca (extant) with a much larger capacity, and the West Seneca High School and West Seneca Central School of the former District 3 became Bellwood Elementary School. The school remained in use until the closure of the school in 1982. Previous developers’ plans to convert the Bellwood Elementary School to apartments fell through, and an older portion of the building was demolished in 2002. While the property has been found ineligible for the National Register of Historic Places (received denial letter in March 2025), it remains a landmark of the West Seneca landscape. VisoneCo Site Development has retained Metzger Engineering as the civil engineer and Sutton Architecture as the architect. We look forward to working with the Town of West Seneca on bringing this building back to life. Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions. Sincerely, Brianne Zhang Director of Real Estate VisoneCo Site Development, LLC 1 Page 22 of 27