Through the New York State Consolidated Funding Application (CFA), a single application for multiple sources of state funding, New York State is soliciting grant applications for projects that advance the priorities of the Regional Economic Development Councils (REDC). Governor Andrew Cuomo has emphasized infrastructure in his budget message and a CFA priority this year seems…
Read MoreWHITE PLAINS—Despite a blistering rebuke of the actions by the White Plains Common Council over what has been a five-year long approval process, the $60-million French American School of New York development project here is still nowhere near breaking ground. New York State Supreme Court Judge Joan Lefkowitz in her recent ruling described the project…
Read MoreWHITE PLAINS—A six-year process to form a public-private partnership to save the storied, but money-losing Rye Playland amusement park finally came to an end on May 2nd when the Westchester County Board of Legislators overwhelmingly approved a deal with New York City-based Standard Amusements. The Board of Legislators voted 13-4 in favor of the deal…
Read MoreNEW WINDSOR—The developer of a major warehouse distribution project in the Town of Newburgh will have to wait until next month to possibly secure millions of dollars in incentives for its $40-million facility that will include anchor tenant AmerisourceBergen. The Orange County Industrial Development Agency delayed two votes on granting incentives to the major distribution…
Read MoreHAWTHORNE—Touro College announced recently that it will open later this year the first new dental school in almost 50 years at an office building adjacent to the New York Medical College’s Grasslands campus. The Touro College of Dental Medicine, which will open to its first class this fall, will reportedly occupy approximately 100,000 square feet…
Read MorePEARL RIVER—The Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors’ Commercial Investment Division will take to the road for its next session on May 19th at the former Pfizer campus here that is now mostly owned by Industrial Realty Group, LLC of Los Angeles. IRG, a nationwide real estate development and investment firm, acquired more than two million…
Read MoreKINGSTON—The Westchester Medical Center Health Network, the parent company of the Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, is expanding its reach to the far reaches of the Hudson Valley. On March 30, HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley announced it had joined the WMCHealth network. HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley is the alignment of HealthAlliance Hospital: Mary’s…
Read MoreWHITE PLAINS—The similarities and stark differences that exist in the four county jurisdiction of the Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors were clearly evident in the presentations by chief economic development officials from Westchester, Rockland, Orange and Putnam counties at the recent Commercial Investment Division meeting held at the new HGAR offices here. More than 60…
Read MoreWHITE PLAINS—2015 was a record year for the county’s Industrial Development Agency (IDA) and Local Development Corporation, which supported 14 projects that will produce a combined total private investment of more than $842 million. While ranging from small to large, a lion’s share of the projects that received financial incentives from Westchester County involved mixed-use…
Read MoreWHITE PLAINS—Westchester County’s economic development programs are geared to promoting its prime location, its quality of life and its highly educated workforce as just some of the reasons why it is the “Smart” place to do business. Westchester County is continuing its “That’s Westchester Smart” marketing and advertising campaign that is focused on both attracting…
Read MoreCHESTER—Orange County’s attempt to bring new development to the former New York City homeless center grounds at Camp LaGuardia has taken a radical turn. Orange County Executive Steve Neuhaus revealed in his State of the County Address a few weeks ago that he was looking to take control once again of the approximately 260-acre camp…
Read MoreWHITE PLAINS—The long awaited move of the Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors from its offices at the soon to be demolished Westchester Pavilion mall to offices down the street at the Source at White Plains complex was completed earlier this month. Boxes were packed and movers and staff completed the office move on Friday, April…
Read MoreThe Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors Commercial Investment Division in partnership with the Rockland Economic Development Corp., will be staging an event at the Pearl River property owned by Industrial Realty Group on May 19. California-based IRG purchased a majority of the Pfizer complex late last year. Officials with IRG are expected to brief CID…
Read MoreELMSFORD—Keystone Property Group announced recently a long-term 14,316-square-foot lease with the Westchester Library System at 570 Taxter Road in Elmsford. The lease comprises the property’s entire fourth floor and a portion of the first floor. 570 Taxter is a six-story office building located near the intersection of Routes 87 and 287. The full-glass building features…
Read MoreA Conversation with County Executive Robert Astorino WHITE PLAINS—The prospects for the county’s economy and specifically its commercial real estate market have not been this bright in decades. The county’s biotech and healthcare industries are driving growth and creating new jobs in the construction trades as well as in their respective sectors. Combine that with…
Read MoreGOSHEN—At a recent press briefing at the Amy’s Kitchen project site here. U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer pressed the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to expedite a key review of wetlands for the Amy’s Kitchen project. The firm plans to build a new $95-million, 369,000-square foot meal-manufacturing plant. Sen. Schumer explained that Amy’s Kitchen plans…
Read MoreREDC Leader to Appear at CID Event on April 14 PEARL RIVER—As expected, Richard Struck officially got the “interim” removed from his job title. The Board of Directors of Rockland Economic Development Corporation announced on March 29th that Struck was officially appointed its new President and CEO. Struck, a resident of Pearl River, has served…
Read MoreWHITE PLAINS—Veteran real estate investor and developer Robert Weisz says Westchester County should benefit from the heady New York City office market in 2016. Weisz, principal of the RPW Group of Rye Brook, hosted approximately 40 commercial brokers at a meeting of the Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors’ Commercial Investment Division at his 1133 Westchester…
Read MoreNEWBURGH—Here’s a head scratcher, considering the robust commercial real estate market in the US and specifically in the Hudson Valley. A long-delayed, but much anticipated retail project here is on hold, a victim of the changing retail investments market, the ownership tells Real Estate In-Depth exclusively. The $250-million Loop-Hudson Valley project, which had leased more…
Read MoreCHAPPAQUA—A storyline that included a bankruptcy that changed everything, false hopes, staunch opposition, failed votes, litigation and in the end finally compromise ended with the groundbreaking of the controversial Chappaqua Crossing mixed-use project here. The approval process took 11 years to finish to get to the point where shovels went in the ground earlier this…
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