Westchester County Business Journal: 092319

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PRINT JOURNALISM: BECAUSE IT STILL MATTERS. SEPTEMBER 23, 2019 VOL. 55, No. 38

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The New York Stock Exchange. Inset: Mario Gabelli. Photo by Peter Katz.

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PORT CHESTER CONSIDERS MIXED-USE BUILDING NEAR METRO-NORTH TRAIN STATION

BILLIONAIRE MARIO GABELLI KEEPS CONNECTING THE STOCK DOTS PAGE

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BY PETER KATZ pkatz@westfairinc.com

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or Mario Gabelli, it’s important to know what’s happening in the world and understand what it might mean for the future. “It’s how you connect the dots in the world on an ongoing basis to make a profit,” he told the JBN Business Breakfast networking event held Sept. 12 at the DoubleTree Hilton in Tarrytown.

JBN, the Jewish Business Network, is in Dobbs Ferry and is a nonprofit serving Jewish businesspeople in the Rivertowns area of Westchester. Its mission includes providing opportunities for developing business connections. Gabelli was the keynote speaker at the breakfast meeting and laced his remarks with rhetorical questions investors need to answer for themselves before making investment decisions, such as:

• “What is the reason we’re arm-wrestling with the Chinese?” • “How important is it to get stuff out of the landfill?” • “Why did MGM buy Yonkers Raceway?” He noted that people like pets and there are 94 million dogs and 88 million cats in the U.S. “So, how do we profit from that?” Gabelli asked. “Some of the things we’re looking at are plastic substitutes. Metal cans and recycling. What companies do that on a global basis? How important is recyclable aluminum?” Gabelli said. Gabelli’s Rye-based GAMCO Investors Inc. conducts its investment » WALL STREET

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BY PETER KATZ pkatz@westfairinc.com

A HIGH-RISE, MIXED-USE BUILDING that would con-

tain 407,000 square feet with 286 apartments, 12,600 square feet of commercial space on the ground floor and 267 parking spaces has been proposed for a collection of nine parcels across from the Metro-North Railroad station in Port Chester. The developer, Broad Street Owner LLC, either owns or is the contract vendee for the nine parcels on Broad Street between Irving Avenue and a building occupied by Verizon. The developer is asking Port Chester’s Board of Trustees to create a zone in order to allow the project

to happen. The address of the proposed building is 44 Broad St. Attorney David Cooper of the White Plains-based law firm Zarin & Steinmetz told the board at its Sept. 3 meeting that the developer would like to see a CD-6-T Train Station District created so that the project can move forward. The proposed building would be 179 feet tall. The developer is asking that a new zoning district define what’s allowed to be built in terms of building height rather than stories. Cooper said the developer believes the project could serve as “the cornerstone of the village’s redevelopment effort in transit-oriented devel» PORT CHESTER

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