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Just a few months after putting its Buffalo headquarters up for sale, the Girl Scouts of Buffalo and Erie County have found a buyer for their Jewett Parkway complex.

The Hillside Family of Agencies, a not-for-profit that serves youth and others in Erie and Niagara Counties, has agreed to purchase the Girl Scouts headquarters. A formal announcement is due Friday afternoon.

The Girl Scouts, which is merging with three other regional Girl Scout councils, is relocating from Buffalo to a suburban site.

The Girl Scouts listed its Jewett Parkway headquarters, a 10,900-square-foot building located just a few blocks from the Darwin Martin House complex, for sale this winter with a $675,000 asking price. The building was listed by Paula Blanchard and Ed Woods from RealtyUSA.

The council has used the Jewett Parkway building as its headquarters since it bought the property in 1969, Approximately 40 people work in the building.

The decision to put the building on the real estate market was made as an outgrowth from the merger between the Girl Scouts of Buffalo and Erie County, Girl Scouts of Niagara County, Girl Scouts of Genesee Valley and Girl Scouts of Southwestern New York. The council now covers a jurisdictional area that covers nine counties and 6,700 square miles in a region that extends from Niagara and Erie Counties eastward towards Rochester.

The Girl Scouts of Western New York – the newly merged entity – serves more than 22,000 girls and a network of more than 10,000 volunteers.

Girl Scout officials said they needed a more central location.

Besides the 40 people who work in Buffalo, the council has more than 100 employees in offices it operates in Lockport, Jamestown, Rochester and Batavia.

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