NEWS BRIEFS
By ALEX PHILIPPIDIS :: January 29, 2007

Feb. 7 meeting on White Plains’ Post/Lexington corridor

White Plains officials will hold their first public meeting on the future of the Post Road/Lexington Avenue corridor on Feb. 7 at 6:30 p.m. at the Resource Center Community Room at the White Plains Housing Authority, 223 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.

The meeting will mark the first public discussion of Post/Lex since Mayor Joseph M. Delfino brought property owners and members of the city’s Common Council together last year to talk about what policies they wanted to see the city pursue for Post/Lex. You can read the Business Journal’s coverage of the March 2006 session. Post/Lex is the only remaining deteriorated section of its downtown, and thus an attractive redevelopment target for White Plains, now that downtown is back in business.

Topics for this meeting will include:

• Parking in the Lexington Avenue/ Post Road Corridor.
• Infrastructural Upgrades (public and private).
• Comprehensive Plan Review Committee Recommendations.
• Expansion of the White Plains Business Improvement District to include the Lexington Avenue/ Post Road Corridor.

People unable to attend the meeting can mail comments to Delfino at City Hall, Mayor’s Office, 255 Main Street, White Plains, NY 10601; or e-mail those comments to David J. Maloney, strategic area development officer/grants coordinator, at dmaloney@ci.white-plains.ny.us ; or Melissa Lopez, coordinator of economic development and public information, at mlopez@ci.white-plains.ny.us.

For more information, call Maloney or Lopez at (914) 422-1411.

Nonprofit group leases NWCA space in Mount Kisco

NAI Friedland Realty Inc. of Yonkers has closed on a long-term lease for 31,000 square-feet at 272 North Bedford Road in Mount Kisco.

The space has been leased to the Richmond Group, a nonprofit organization that provides a variety of programs and services to people with developmental disabilities and complex medical health care needs. Previously the space had housed the Northern Westchester Center for the Arts (NWCA), which folded in 2005 after declaring bankruptcy.

The building is currently fully leased.

Ellen Benedek and Carl Silbergleit, Executive Directors with Friedland’s Office Division, served as exclusive leasing agents for the landlord.

Friedland managed the building’s sale to NWCA in the early 1990s. And when NWCA ran into financing woes a few years back, Friedland Realty owner Robert Friedland later bought the building, leased a portion back to NWCA, and found tenants for the remaining space. In 2005 Friedland offered to match NWCA’s fundraising efforts if it could raise $200,000 – a goal unmet.

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