A Tampa, Fla., company wants to build a four-story, 63-room hotel on a vacant lot on Buffalo Avenue in Niagara Falls, across the street from the entrance ramps to Interstate 190.

The hotel would be the region's first Avid Hotel, said Thomas J. DeSantis, city senior planner.

In February, Sky Infratech Projects bought the site from AIM Realty of Parsippany, N.J., for $440,000, according to Niagara County land records.

DeSantis said the lot at 6422 Buffalo Ave. was formerly occupied by a gas station, but it's not on the city's list of brownfields. The site has undergone environmental reviews from the state Department of Environmental Conservation and the Army Corps of Engineers, he said.

The city Planning Board may vote on the project as soon as Wednesday. DeSantis said that is the only approval the project needs, since the site is already zoned for a hotel.

The design for the hotel comes from Silvestri Architects of Amherst, with engineering by Christopher Andrzekewski of Hamburg and Greenman-Pedersen of Cheektowaga, DeSantis said.