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August 26, 2013 | VOL. 49, No. 34

DEAD PROJECT COMES ALIVE

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New owners of 120 Bloomingdale look to entice upscale retailers

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BY JOHN GOLDEN jgolden@westfairinc.com

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t 120 Bloomingdale Road in White Plains, the architect is the same. The city-approved square footage is the same. The project’s cost estimate, at the low end, is the same. The vision of high-end retail shops – think Greenwich or Manhasset – is the same. But since the economy crashed in 2008, some things have changed in Westchester real estate. At 120 Bloomingdale Road, the owner-developer has changed. So too has the brand name on a development that is much the same as that planned five summers ago. In 2008, principals at Core Plus Properties L.L.C. in Stamford planned a fall groundbreaking for a new commercial use on their 6-acre property at 120 Bloomingdale Road – the former Nestle Co. headquarters campus for which they and financial

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greenburgh appeals antenna court order Telecom company won suit to get 20 permits in town BY MarK LuNGariELLO mlungariello@westfairinc.com

The ToWn of greenburgh is appealing a court order that says it must issue permits to install 20 cellphone antennas on utility poles in residential neighborhoods. NextG Networks of NY Inc., a subsidiary of Crown Castle International Corp. of Houston, sued the town based on an application filed in November 2009 to install a “distributed antenna system” that would address service deadspots in the area. After an extended application and review process that the judge likened to pingpong, the Greenburgh Town Board finally rejected NextG’s

application in July 2012. By then, the company had already set a deadline and promised a lawsuit if the town didn’t meet its date for a decision. U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel, in a July 3 ruling, said the town’s reasoning for rejecting the applications was based partially on a misinterpretation of the law. Seibel also said she ordered the permits issued rather than send the matter back to the town based on its snail’s pace in handling the application process. Seibel in a 45-page ruling said “the bureaucratic hoops through which plaintiff was put, along with the rest of the record, suggest that the town would be no more interested in a prompt disposiGreenburgh, page 6

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