FEBRUARY 4, 2019 VOL. 55, No. 5
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William Mooney Jr. (left) and Michael Oates. Photo by Bob Rozycki.
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RPW GROUP PROPOSES 303 APARTMENTS AT 1133 WESTCHESTER AVE. COMPLEX
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BY RYAN DEFFENBAUGH rdeffenbaugh@westfairinc.com
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he Westchester County Association will merge with the Hudson Valley Economic Development Corp., the leaders of the two business advocacy groups told the Business Journal in an interview Jan. 28. The Westchester County Association has represented businesses in the county since 1950, while the
8-15-18 Poughkeepsie-based HVEDC focuses its programs in Rockland, Putnam, Orange, Ulster, Dutchess and Sullivan counties with some programming in Westchester as well. In merging the two organizations, longtime Westchester County Association leader William Mooney Jr. said it was time for the group to think regionally. “Not only here, but throughout the country, everything is much more on a regionalized basis,”
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said Mooney, the president and CEO of the WCA. “This (merger) made so much sense, as opposed to being provincial and working in one little area. Frankly, this is a large geographic area to cover and we will offer a lot to the business community in those areas.” HVEDC President and CEO Michael Oates said his organization views the Westchester County Association as a name » MERGER
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rdeffenbaugh@westfairinc.com MORE APARTMENTS MAY BE COMING to the rapidly changing Platinum Mile, this time from one of its best-known office landlords. A plan from a joint venture led by the Rye Brookbased RPW Group would add 303 apartments to 1133 Westchester Ave., a signature 620,000-square-foot office complex along the Interstate 287 corridor in White Plains. Robert P. Weisz, RPW Group’s founder and CEO,
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presented plans Jan. 28 to the White Plains Common Council for the development, which would add three apartment buildings, each five stories high, to the northeast side of the property, facing county-owned Maple Moor Golf Course. RPW has teamed up in a joint venture with a national apartment developer, the NRP Group, for the proposal. The 1133 Westchester Ave. address is home to a list of companies that include ITT Corp., Wilson Elser law
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