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Commercial Brokers Expecting Another Good Year for Region

February 4, 2019

WHITE PLAINS—A record crowd of approximately 150 real estate professionals attended the annual Commercial Broker Roundtable presented by the Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors’ Commercial Investment Division on Jan. 23. The panel of veteran commercial brokers who do business in the lower Hudson Valley and New York metro region, were upbeat at the session held…

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Fed Holds Rates Steady; Promises More Patient Approach to Future Rate Hikes

January 30, 2019

WASHINGTON—In what can only be viewed as great news for Realtors and the residential real estate market, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday decided to hold rates steady and even signaled an end to what had been seen by some as an aggressive policy of raising rates. The Federal Reserve decided to maintain the federal funds…

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Westchester County Association, HVEDC Agree to Merger

January 30, 2019

WHITE PLAINS—The storied Westchester County Association, which has been one of the county’s leading business advocacy organizations for nearly 70 years, says it intends to merge operations with regional economic development agency the Hudson Valley Economic Development Corp. The deal between the two organizations is intended to create a regional economic development and business advocacy…

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Empire City Casino Changes Hands to MGM Resorts in $850M Deal

January 30, 2019

YONKERS—The era of the Rooney family at Yonkers Raceway came to an end on Jan. 29 with the closing of the $850-million sale of Empire City Casino and Yonkers Raceway to MGM Resorts International. The Rooney family acquired the storied Yonkers Raceway property in 1972 and opened the highly successful Empire City Casino in October…

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Fareri to Revitalize Longstanding Goshen Retail Eyesore

January 23, 2019

GOSHEN—The developer who earlier this month signed a contract with Westchester County to build a more than $1-billion bioscience park in Valhalla, has proposed a$60-million plan to rid the Village of Goshen of a mostly vacant and blighted property. Fareri Associates of Greenwich, CT presented the Goshen Planning Board on Jan.22 a plan to redevelop…

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Toll-Brothers Joint Ventures with JP Morgan on $157M Project in Harrison

January 23, 2019

HARRISON—Toll Brothers’ groundbreaking adaptive reuse of two office buildings here has a new partner and more than $100 million in construction financing. The developer reports it has formed a joint venture with New York City-based J.P. Morgan Asset Management to develop the $157 million, 421-unit Carraway luxury apartment property off Westchester Avenue in Harrison. The…

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Hudson Valley Home Sales Market Remained Strong in 2018. Sales Slow Down, But Median Prices Continue to Rise in Region

January 23, 2019

WHITE PLAINS—The Hudson Valley residential sales market remained strong in 2018, despite lower sales due mainly to a lack of available inventory. In a report released earlier this month by the Hudson Gateway Multiple Listing Service, Inc., the overall five-county market serviced by HGMLS (Westchester, Rockland, Orange, Putnam and Sullivan counties) saw a 2.6% decline…

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Appellate Court Deals Blow to Title Insurance Industry

January 17, 2019

NEW YORK—A New York State Appellate Court has overturned an earlier lower court ruling and has upheld controversial state regulations that restrict what state regulators have termed excessive marketing costs and other unscrupulous activity in the title industry. The Appellate Division, First Department, on Jan. 15 reversed a ruling last July by New York Supreme…

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NJ Pharmaceutical Firm to Lease 83,000 SF in Pearl River

January 16, 2019

PEARL RIVER—A Piscataway, NJ-based pharmaceutical firm has signed a major lease for approximately 83,000 square feet at the former Pfizer complex in Pearl River that is now known as the New York Center for Innovation. Los Angeles-based Industrial Realty Group, which purchased 207 acres of the campus in late 2015 from Pfizer, announced the lease…

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Yonkers IDA Approves Incentives for Three Major Projects Amid Dispute with Building Trades

January 16, 2019

YONKERS—The Yonkers Industrial Development Agency reports it has approved more than $13.6 million in incentives for three major development projects in the city. The IDA’s Board of Directors approved at its meeting last Friday resolutions of intent to provide financial incentives for two mixed-use developments and one strictly residential project totaling more than $391 million…

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99-Year Lease Deal Brings $1.2B Bioscience Park Closer to Reality

January 14, 2019

TARRYTOWN—The long sought-after development of a major bioscience project at the Grasslands campus in Valhalla cleared a major milestone on Jan. 10 when a lease deal was signed between the developer and Westchester County. At a meeting of the Westchester County Association, Westchester County Executive George Latimer announced the county had signed a 99-year lease…

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Median Home Prices Rise in Hudson Valley; Sales Fall in Most HGAR Markets in 2018

January 9, 2019

WHITE PLAINS—While remaining robust, residential sales in some areas of the lower Hudson Valley were slightly lower in 2018 than the historic highs of the past two years. In 2018, Westchester, Rockland and Orange counties all experienced declines in the number of residential sales as compared to 2017, according to the “2018 Annual and Fourth…

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10 Things to Watch Out for in 2019

January 3, 2019

WHITE PLAINS—While I do not profess to possess the prognostication skills of the “Amazing Kreskin” or “Carnac the Magnificent,” I thought I would share my thoughts with the Real Estate In-Depth readership on the top stories/issues I believe could have an impact on the commercial, residential real estate and capital finance markets in the Hudson…

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Woodbury Common Adds Five Retailers; Begins Planning for Latest Expansion

January 3, 2019

CENTRAL VALLEY—The highly successful Woodbury Common Premium Outlets here reports it has added five new retailers while it has submitted plans to the Town of Woodbury on another major expansion project at the property that intersects Route 17 and the New York State Thruway in Orange County. Golden Goose Deluxe Brand, a high fashion sneaker…

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