In White Plains, a retail revival
Higher rents, high-end tenants make their way along the avenue
By ALEX PHILIPPIDIS

Last time the Business Journal wrote about a retail revival on the streets of downtown White Plains back in 1995, the talk came mainly from officials excited about such newcomers as a dollar store, a discount haircutting chain and a men’s clothier that closed within months after discovering Mamaroneck Avenue was more downscale than it expected.

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Italian center options: Here or Rochester?
By ALEX PHILIPPIDIS

Westchester officials hope a meeting they plan to hold next month with Italian investors and officials from the Italian province of Parma will jump-start the dormant effort to create a “Made in Italy” trade center within the county and forestall continued interest in the trade center from the city of Rochester.

Storage-chain buys downtown Yonkers building
By ALEX PHILIPPIDIS

The owner of 12 self-storage centers in the region has snapped up the 10,500-square-foot 25 Warburton Ave., the longtime home of an office supply business. An entity of Tuck-It-Away Self Storage paid an undisclosed price for the single-story building, which has a full basement and stretches on Warburton Avenue from Larkin Plaza south to Main Street.

Another year, another group of famers
By CHRISTINA OCCHIPINTI

Westchester County is home to hundreds of great businesses and year after year The Business Council of Westchester continues to honor the best of the best as Hall of Fame award winners.

Mayoral candidates debate size of Lighthouse Landing
By BRYAN F. YURCAN

The scope of Lighthouse Landing, the proposed 1,250-unit mixed-use facility on 100 acres of the former General Motors plant site in Sleepy Hollow, could change depending on the results of the village elections March 20.

Rent dispute pits Fareri vs. med center
By ALEX PHILIPPIDIS

The primary benefactor of Westchester Medical Center’s Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital has ordered the regional hospital and its medical subtenants out of a Hawthorne office building he owns by month’s end, escalating a three-month dispute over back rent.

Yonkers grapples with living-wage measure
By ALEX PHILIPPIDIS

Democrats on the Yonkers City Council are promising to create an above-minimum “living” wage for some categories of employees, including many of the new jobs to be created as the city redevelops its commercial areas -- despite a promised veto from the city’s Republican Mayor, Philip A. Amicone and objections from a key developer.

Telecom companies’ merger worries Bell competitors
BY ALEXANDER SOULE

Broadview Networks Holdings Inc. is acquiring InfoHighway Communications, creating a telecommunications company with more than $500 million in annual revenue.

Pathmark purchase tough to swallow, consultant says
By ALEX PHILIPPIDIS

The $11 billion supermarket giant to be created through A&P’s acquisition of Pathmark doesn’t appear strong enough to surmount the problems that brought both companies together, a supermarket industry watcher says.

Gannett Co. buys 2 Conn. newspapers
BY ALEXANDER SOULE

For $73 million, Tribune Co. has sold the Stamford Advocate and the Greenwich Time to Gannett Company Inc.

Ex-CEO Chalk still awaiting federal trial
By BRYAN F. YURCAN

The former chief executive officer of Compulinx Managed Services Inc. remained in jail last week, having yet to meet his bail requirements.

SBA reports record lending

The U.S. Small Business Administration made a record number of export loans in 2006, surpassing the $1 billion mark for the first time in the history of the program, the agency said.

A professional marketing plan saves money, produces results
By RANDYE SPINA

You answer the phone and a very friendly voice introduces himself and tells you about an advertising opportunity you just can’t pass up.

More guilty pleas in trash-hauling saga
By BOB CHUVALA

Two associates of Danbury, Conn., trash hauler James Galante pleaded guilty to racketeering charges for their part in what the federal government said is a mob-enforced control of the trash-hauling industry in metro Danbury.

In Yonkers, Verizon may be coming to town
By CHRISTINA OCCHIPINTI

Looking to spice up its residents’ cable offerings, Yonkers is close to signing a franchise agreement with Verizon for its FiOS TV service.

Pellet power

By BRYAN F. YURCAN

In his younger days, Jim Badami worked with his father at the family’s “reuse business,” selling used packaging to the farmers in Ulster County to store their produce.

The two would refurbish the wire-bound wooden boxes that grocery stores used to store and package produce.

Then, from the mid-1970s into the 1990s, wax cardboard boxes became the popular choice for packing produce.