Pelham village board approves relocation of T-Mobile and AT&T cell towers to Pelham Green apartment building

The Village of Pelham Board of Trustees voted unanimously Nov. 18 on resolutions that will allow T-Mobile and AT&T to move their cell towers from the roof of the Pelham Fire House, which will be demolished after the new municipal center is completed, to the Pelham Green apartment building going up on Fifth Avenue.

The vote came during a special meeting after the three resolutions were tabled during the board’s regular meeting on Nov. 12 so the trustees could review all the documents involved.

According to the village’s attorney, Gerard Lederer of Best Best & Krieger LLP, there will be be no penalty to the village in passing the resolutions. While the village has to pay for the relocation costs of the towers, since the wireless companies were authorized to stop paying rent to the village at the beginning of this year, the village has credits with the companies against those relocation costs, he said. There will be no additional debt and no exceeding the state tax cap resulting from passing the resolutions.

The negotiations for the relocation agreements began in 2021.

“This is time well spent,” said Mayor Chance Mullen.