The stately hospital on the hill in Perrysburg, New York, has been given another chance. In a unanimous decision, the Fourth Department of the Appellate Division of State Supreme Court has sided with opponents of the proposed sale of the former J.N. Adam Tuberculosis Hospital campus by the state to Trathen Land Company and voided the sale.
In the lawsuit, brought by the Friends of J.N. Adam in order to preserve the historic buildings and 649-acre forested campus of the J.N. Adam Developmental Center, the Court upheld the group's claims against New York State and the City of Buffalo for violations of the state's environmental, historic preservation and public buildings laws. The Court found that the state and city failed to perform required environmental studies and historic preservation reviews.
The Court also voided the Buffalo Common Council's 2005 resolution giving up the City's reversionary rights to the property, and voided the state's declaration of "no environmental impacts" to the property in the sale to the logging company. The state sought to sell the 649-acre campus to the logging company for approximately $390,000, with the City to receive just under $334,000 of the sale proceeds.
The former hospital campus, designed by renowned American architect John Hopper Coxhead, includes a complex of more than two dozen buildings, a stained-glass domed dining hall rotunda, a dozen former physician residences, and hundreds of acres of mature forests, meadows and ponds. Friends of J.N. Adam is working toward a reuse of the property which is both beneficial to the community and protects the property's historic and natural resources.

Full ruling on nycourts.gov

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