More change may be on the way for Empire Boulevard in Penfield.

In May 2018, the Daniele family opened Mario’s Homemade Pasta Kitchen at 1384 Empire, which previously was home to another Daniele restaurant, Bazil. Now they’re looking to put an apartment building on that spot at the south end of Irondequoit Bay.

The project, which requires a conditional-use permit and site-plan approval from the town, would be four stories high and include 95 apartments, mostly one-bedrooms, said Penfield Supervisor Tony LaFountain. For comparison’s sake, each of the nine buildings that make up the nearby Waters Edge residential development contains 39 units.

The new development also would include an underground parking garage with 75 spaces and outdoor parking for around 68 cars.

At a Wednesday Town Board meeting, board member Rob Quinn said he wanted to take more time to reflect on the size of the project, which the Danieles began discussing with the town last year and formalized with submitted plans in mid-May, according to Jim Costello, Penfield's director of Developmental Service. So the board tabled discussion of the proposal, which was the subject of a public hearing in early August, until its next meeting on Sept. 11.

A vote on whether to approve it won’t happen until at least Sept. 18, LaFountain said. However, “A denial is unlikely based on where we started and where we are now. It’s just a matter of what the final plans look like,” he said.

Assuming it moves forward, what would become of Mario’s (where, currently, business continues as usual)?

“We would be looking at including it somewhere in the site or relocating it,” Danny Daniele said.

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