Westchester County Business Journal 021119

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019 VOL. 55, No. 6

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Courtney Hurley, a Toll Brothers sales representative, demonstrates the company’s virtual reality headset that the builder is using for tours of its planned townhomes at Edge-on-Hudson in Sleepy Hollow. Photos provided by Toll Brothers.

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MOXIE PROJECT

Seeing the future

RUBBING ‘SALT’ IN NEW YORK’S WOUNDS

VIRTUAL REALITY PROVIDES A CLEAR VIEW OF EDGE-ON-HUDSON BY RYAN DEFFENBAUGH rdeffenbaugh@westfairinc.com

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nvisioning your future million-dollar home within a former industrial site is no easy task. Toll Brothers is trying to make it easier through the use of virtual reality. In the sales office for its upcoming Edge-on-Hudson townhomes and condo-

miniums in Sleepy Hollow, the Fortune 500 national homebuilding company is offering virtual reality tours of two of its home models. The company started sales last fall for its planned home development on the former General Motors plant site near the Hudson River. Outside the sales office in January snow pelted an image of kayakers launching into the Hudson, a promotional rendering Toll

BY PETER KATZ

Brothers printed along the property’s fencing. The grounds were barren but for construction crews moving earth and laying concrete. But within the confines of the VR headset, the sun is shining, flowers are in bloom and a neighborhood of brick townhomes has sprouted from the ground through realistic 3-D visuals. In this virtual world » VIRTUAL

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pkatz@westfairinc.com “THAT IS TOTALLY RIDICULOUS,” former Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino told the Business Journal when reacting to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo blaming a dramatic state tax revenue shortfall on the new federal limit on tax deductions for state and local taxes, known as SALT. “Look at the mind-set in Albany. It’s just spend like crazy and what was the first thing that Democrats local-

ly did in Westchester once SALT took effect? Raise taxes, which made it doubly worse,” Astorino said. Astorino, a Republican, served as Westchester County executive for eight years and ran for governor against Cuomo in 2014, receiving more than 40 percent of the vote compared with Cuomo’s 54 percent. During his two terms as county executive, Astorino maintained his campaign pledges not to raise coun» TAX

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