WHEATFIELD — To meet what it believes will be a growing demand for its services and a declining pool of providers in Niagara County, Western New York Urology Associates announced Wednesday it plans to construct a new $11.3 million location in Cambria.

Officials of the company went before the board of the Niagara County Industrial Development Agency to request a 15- year property tax break on the planned 37,000-square-foot, two-story building.

Richard Terhaar, administrator of the company, said it built a major facility on Harlem Road in Cheektowaga in 2008, and 20 percent of the patients come from Niagara County.

Terhaar also said the average age of urologists in Niagara County is over 65, so retirements are expected that will create an opportunity for the new service to find patients.

“We thought the best approach was to open a full-time, full-service location,” he said.

That location is on farmland at 3832 Saunders Settlement Road, which is Route 31. It’s about two miles east of Niagara County Community College and almost in the geographical center of Niagara County.

Terhaar said Western New York Urology Associates will be buying an 11-acre parcel of land, with construction expected to start Nov. 1 if approvals are received. The company expects to create 26 new jobs.

He said two urologists already have been recruited to join the practice for the Cambria location, one in 2011 and one in 2012. Besides its Cheektowaga site, the practice has locations in Jamestown and Orchard Park.

The IDA board scheduled a public hearing on the 15-year payment-in-lieu-of-taxes, or PILOT, arrangement at 4:30 p. m. Sept. 7 in Cambria Town Hall. The board is expected to vote on the deal the next morning.

On another medical topic, the board approved a 10-year PILOT for an 8,060-square-foot medical building in Woodlands Corporate Center, Calamar’s multiuse campus off Shawnee Road in Wheatfield.

The main tenant will be a kidney dialysis clinic to be operated by Apollo Health Care of Niagara Falls. The $1.5 million project is to create 20 jobs within two years.

Kenneth Franasiak, chief executive officer of Calamar, said the new project, along with existing medical offices, allows the developer to call part of the property the Woodlands Medical Campus.

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