Westfield sets Aug. 20 hearing on proposed trucking terminal at 0 Medeiros Way

Westfield has scheduled a City Council public hearing for Aug. 20, 2026, on a proposed trucking terminal at 0 Medeiros Way on Summit Lock Road.

The applicant is identified as A.J. Virgilio Construction Inc. The hearing will address three requests connected to the proposal: a special permit, site-plan approval and a stormwater permit.

The city posted the hearing notice on July 9, 2026, through its official Agenda Center. The scheduled hearing is the next known step in the city’s review. It is not an approval of the trucking terminal.

What the city will review

The requests place the proposed terminal within Westfield’s zoning and land-development review process. The city’s pending-applications page directs residents to the Agenda Center for public-hearing dates and application notices involving those matters.

For residents, property owners and nearby businesses, the listed permits identify several practical issues that could be considered as the application moves forward. Those issues include the proposed use of the property, how trucks would access the site and how stormwater would be managed.

However, the available agenda does not provide enough information to measure the project’s potential effects. It does not state the property’s acreage, the number of trucks involved, the terminal’s operating hours or the employment expected from the proposal. It also does not include findings from a traffic study.

The agenda likewise does not establish projected traffic, emissions or quantified stormwater effects. Those details should not be treated as settled facts based on the hearing notice alone.

Proposal remains pending

The official notice identifies the proposed location as 0 Medeiros Way, Summit Lock Road, in Westfield, Massachusetts. It names the Westfield City Council hearing and the three permitting requests, but it does not announce a final decision by the city.

Pending applications proceed through the city’s reviewing authorities and public-hearing process. That means the Aug. 20 meeting could affect whether the trucking-terminal proposal advances through permitting, but the source packet does not indicate whether the council will approve, deny or otherwise resolve the application at that hearing.

Until further city action, the terminal remains a proposal. Residents and nearby businesses seeking the official hearing notice and related application information can use the city’s Agenda Center, which the pending-applications page identifies as the place for zoning and land-development hearing information.

The next known date is the City Council’s public hearing on Aug. 20, 2026.