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URGENT CARE WITH A TWIST ‘Boutique’ medical services to open in White Plains BY CRYSTAL KANG ckang@westfairinc.com
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longtime Westchester County businesswoman with a familiar surname in county real estate development is expanding her rehabilitation and therapy clinic to launch a “boutique-style” medical urgent care center in downtown White Plains. Gina Cappelli said she plans a soft opening in January of Forme Urgent Care and Wellness at 7-11 S. Broadway in an 11,300-square-foot space formerly leased by White Plains city agencies. The state Health Department-licensed business will succeed Cappelli’s Forme Medical, page 16
Gina Cappelli studies floor plans for her Forme Urgent Care and Wellness Center opening in White Plains.
harrison reimagines its Platinum Mile Master plan envisions mixed use, senior living BY MARK LUNGARIELLO mlungariello@westfairinc.com
duRING Its hEYdAY IN thE 1980s, the Platinum Mile brimmed with major corporate tenants and packed-to-capacity suburban office complexes. New York Telephone, Hitachi and Texaco were some of the big name companies headquartered there. In 1984, corporations paid 60 percent of all property taxes in the town of Harrison. Today, the stretch is a shell of its former self – many corporate tenants have left or downsized. Texaco merged with Chevron and moved to San Francisco. New York Telephone became Verizon
FASNY plan moves forward with city council vote
and downsized. Office vacancy rates are up and new tenants are hard to come by. Building owners continually seek to reduce their tax payments even while some of their properties fall into disrepair and obsolescence. Corporations now make up only 18 percent of the town’s tax base. Harrison Mayor Ron Belmont drives down Westchester Avenue regularly and sees “the buildings in mothballs and buildings being demolished.” By looking around, he said, it was obvious that it was time to take a new look at the corridor. “The future of the town of Harrison is right there on Westchester Avenue,” he said. The town
The White Plains Common Council has paved the way for the French-American School of New York to apply for a special permit to create a campus on the grounds of the former Ridgeway Country Club. The council voted Dec. 19 to adopt a final environmental findings statement for the proposed $70 million project. The council voted 6-1, with
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BY CRYSTAL KANG ckang@westfairinc.com