Con Edison has developed a plan to build a new office and warehouse building on the 8.8-acre site it owns at 267 Saw Mill River Road and 20-30 Worth St. in Yonkers. The property is where Con Ed operates its Yonkers Service Center.
The proposed three-story building would have a footprint of 26,107 square feet and contain about 76,000 square feet. It would be used by 71 full-time workers. An existing smaller office building and temporary offices and some other small structures at the property would be demolished. The existing automobile repair building would be enlarged for two additional garage bays and the fuel pumps would be replaced with state of the art fueling pumps. Various Con Edison trucks frequent the site.
The plan calls for increasing the number of parking spaces at the property from the current 150 to 224. There also would be two loading docks for the warehouse section of the new building. Con Edison says that in addition to new office space the new building would provide space for the warehousing of equipment.
Attorney Leslie J. Snyder of the White Plains-based law firm Snyder & Snyder LLP, representing Con Edison, said that the proposed new building and related improvements are located in the interior of the property and will not be readily visible from Saw Mill River Road. He said that what the utility wants to do is compatible with the surrounding industrial area and will not have an adverse impact on the surrounding area.
Snyder said that the proposed development would not adversely affect existing traffic access or circulation and that trucks coming to the site would have access from the existing entrance on Roosevelt Street. He pointed out that the project is screened and secured by the fencing around the perimeter of the property.
“Upon completion, the project will not result in any noise above ambient levels at the nearest property line,” Snyder said. “There are existing fire lanes, emergency zones, and fire hydrants available at the property to service the project. The project will not cause smoke, gas, odor, heat, dust, noise above ambient levels, fumes, or vibrations.”
Con Edison did not have an estimate of the project’s cost on the application it filed with Yonkers.
