Westchester County Local Jobs
Vol. 46, # 12 | March 19, 2007
 
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Walt Macnee


By CHRISTINA OCCHIPINTI

If giving means getting, then MasterCard Worldwide is reaping the benefits of its philanthropic efforts in winning this year’s Business Council of Westchester’s Hall of Fame Corporate Citizenship Award.

Its involvement in many Westchester-based organizations and foundations has earned widespread respect for MasterCard within the community

 

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After buying one Yonkers property and entering into a contract for a second in recent weeks, the owner of a regional self-storage warehouse chain says he’s looking to take part in the city’s downtown redevelopment ­ as a developer.

 

 

 

Officials in Greenburgh and Mount Pleasant are weighing a pair of new “active” adult projects with almost 500 units combined. Farther south in White Plains, another 465 adult units overcame a huge hurdle earlier this month when the owners of the former St. Agnes Hospital property won zoning approvals from the city’s Common Council for a $150 million older-adult community within the site’s 23.2 acres.

 

 

 

A self-described “digital immigrant,” Nancy A. Shenker became involved with the Internet at a later stage in life but has quickly immersed herself in new media.

 

 

 

Gov. Eliot Spitzer named one of the state’s top transportation officials to an economic development post last week.

 

 

 

That business you started has grown into an enterprise that makes $3 million or more a year in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or EBITDA.

 

 

 

Direct-marketing mailer Pennysaver Group Inc. is flipping through leaflets for a good lawyer, after getting sued by a Florida rival over alleged marketing practices.

 

 

 

“The planet is warming. What we know is that the climate is changing,” said Adrienne T. Atwell, senior vice president and senior product manager for Swiss Re’s Americas Division, where she is responsible for business-side sustainability management in the company’s Armonk office.

 

 

 

The Yonkers City Council will rewrite its measure requiring an above-minimum “living” wage for city government and employers receiving more than $25,000 in economic subsidies from the city, following a veto by Mayor Philip A. Amicone.

 

 

 

Following an approval by its Budget and Appropriations Committee, the county Board of Legislators voted unanimously on March 12 to amend the 2007 Capital Budget to allow the acquisition of eight rides for $6 million in bonds to lessen the tax burden at Playland Amusement Park.

 

 

 

Virgin Atlantic Airways thinks it has found a niche keeping its offices in South Norwalk, Conn.

 

 
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