OBSERVER Photo by M.J. Stafford Dunkirk Town Board members Juan Pagan, left, and Robert Penharlow look at plans for a new urgent care center with Dave Nardozzi, an architect working on the project. The board voted 5-0 to approve the building, which will be on Vineyard Drive.

It’s official: The town of Dunkirk is getting an urgent care center.

The Dunkirk Town Board voted unanimously Wednesday to approve the project. Well Now Urgent Care will operate the center at 3921 Vineyard Drive on a site between Applebee’s and Dunkin’ Donuts, about where the Vineyard Motel’s restaurant was located years ago.

Project architect Dave Nardozzi told the board that the center will share entry and exit driveways with Applebee’s and Dunkin’ Donuts. It will not need a curb cut on Vineyard Drive, he said.

The 3,500-square-foot building will have seven patient rooms and 48 parking spaces outside. Nardozzi said no ambulances would be coming in, but might be occasionally needed to transport people to a hospital.

“Urgent care will not do any transporting on their own as far as taking a patient from Point A to Point B?” board member Juan Pagan asked Nardozzi. The architect said that was correct.

Nardozzi said he hopes to start site work “as soon as the weather breaks,” adding it would take “three months for the shell and a couple months after that for the interior buildout.”

Town Supervisor Richard Purol read the Town of Dunkirk Planning Board’s letter recommending the project go forward, on three conditions: a Well Now attorney send a letter to the town confirming easement issues were resolved; that Well Now commit to maintain and clean a storm water discharge pond on the property; and that Well Now provide a report from an independent engineer confirming that the pond design is sound. “When we make our motion I would like those three stipulations added to that,” he said.

The board agreed to that and voted in favor the project. “You’re approved,” Purol said to Nardozzi with a smile and a laugh. “Start building — as soon as you can.”