Westchester County Business Journal 061118

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JUNE 11, 2018 | VOL. 54, No. 24

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Caramoor composes plan for its future BY RYAN DEFFENBAUGH rdeffenbaugh@westfairinc.com

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he grounds are humming as Jeffrey Haydon walks through the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts on a Thursday morning in May. Caramoor’s CEO greeted a group of school children touring the early 20th-century Rosen House, chatted briefly with a music instructor and joked with a crew setting up tents for a private weekend fundraiser at the 1,500-person capacity Venetian Theater. “Caramoor is a little unique in that it’s a collection of several different nonprofit businesses,” Haydon said. “We have music, performing arts, but we’re

Caramoor’s CEO Jeffrey Haydon. Photo by Ryan Deffenbaugh.

also a 90-acre historical site, a 90,000-square-foot historic house, historic gardens and an education program.” Haydon has led the center for six years, a job he described as part fundraiser, part planner and part “professional audience member.” So thinking often about what Caramoor is, and what it means to the region, is part of Haydon’s job. It’s likely on his mind now more than ever, as Caramoor prepares to launch the public phase of its “Inspire” capital campaign that the nonprofit hopes will help secure its financial future ahead of its 75th anniversary in 2020. Caramoor will look to the public for the final $8 million of a $40 million fundrais6

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White Plains Mall redevelopment proposal adds coworking space BY RYAN DEFFENBAUGH rdeffenbaugh@westfairinc.com

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he Hamilton Green proposal that would demolish the White Plains Mall and replace it with apartments, a food hall and an open public area will also have some space

for freelancers, small businesses and anyone else in need of a place to work. As the project enters the next stage of its review by the city, Hamilton Green’s development team noted that the plans will include 27,000 square feet of co-working space. Jess Greene, a partner and

senior design manager at StreetWorks Development, said the coworking space concept isn’t new for the property, but has been brought to the forefront in the conceptual proposal outlined in its final environmental impact statement. “The idea of a shared workspace has been of interest to us

from the beginning,” Greene said. “We felt it was a natural fit for the Hamilton Green project.” The project is led by the Port Chester-based Street-Works working with the mall’s ownership, WP Mall Realty LLC. The team first presented conceptual plans to the city in November 2016, with a mixed-use concept that fuses

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retail and restaurant space with apartments. Most notable was the outline for a craft food hall offering options from small purveyors along with open, publicly accessible park space. The proposal has been working its way through the city’s various boards for review since. » WHITE PLAINS

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