GUILDERLAND — The new owner of the former Peter Young Center has received approval to turn the site into a boutique hotel. 

The Guilderland Zoning Board on June 4 approved the special-use permit application of Kent Hansen to turn the former seminary and recovery center at 1180 Berne-Altamont Road into the Inns of Altamont.  

Hansen will now turn the 16-acre site into a 30-room hotel with a 45-seat restaurant and multiple event spaces, both indoors and out. The location operated as a Catholic seminary from 1925 to 1979, then as a treatment center for people battling substance-use disorders. 

The project was able to move forward due to an assist from the village of Altamont, which is providing the site with potable water. 

The zoning board’s conditions of approval included: 

— Lighting is to be carefully considered, code-compliant, with minimized undue brightness, and directed downward as much as possible;

— The maximum number of guests for events is to be 250;

— The facility’s hours of operation are from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., which conforms with the town’s noise curfew; and  

— The on-property pump station that provides water to the handful Altamont water customers on the hill will continue to do so.