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Vol. 46, # 18 | April 30, 2007

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Legal Eagles

Photo by Bob Rozycki

Philip M. Halpern, Erin Noelle Guven, Shanna Tallarico, William S. Null and Joel H. Sachs,
award recipients at the Above the Bar Awards honoring excellence in the Westchester legal community.

 
 
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When Maryanne Hedrick first moved to Peekskill two years ago, she was amazed at how much tasty food was available from farms in the Hudson Valley.

 

 

 

The county’s flood disaster has created a heavy demand among residents and businesses for the services of Westchester contractors, some of whom had to contend with water damage to their own businesses.

 

 

 

Speaking in Tarrytown last week, a leading advocate for statewide business growth and economic development said he is “optimistic” that New York is “moving forward” in reclaiming its status as the Empire State in the national economy.

 

 

 

Pending an approval by the village of Ossining, EPN Real Estate Services Inc. and Plateau Associates L.L.C. hope to begin work on one of the newest Hudson River projects, Hidden Cove on the Hudson.

 

 

 

Citizens Bank has opened a new in-store branch in White Plains, its seventh such branch in Westchester, as part of its partnership agreement with Stop & Shop Supermarkets.

 

 

 

The buildings keep coming down on Davids Island, the 78-acre island half a mile off New Rochelle in Long Island Sound once known as Fort Slocum until the U.S. Army base was deactivated in 1965.

 

 

 

RexCorp Realty officials are confident an ongoing $20 million improvements project at their Platinum Mile properties will prove a good investment in a tighter metropolitan real estate market.

 

 

 

New York state has more than 4,200 taxing entities, including towns, villages, cities, counties and special districts.

 

 

 

Looking to position the city of Yonkers at the forefront of business and tourism in southern Westchester, the Yonkers Industrial Development Agency (IDA) has approved several subsidies toward the construction of a Hampton Inn & Suites in South Westchester Executive Park.

 

 

 

Housing sales in Westchester increased overall by nearly 6 percent in the first quarter this year compared with a year ago, according to the Westchester-Putnam Multiple Listing Service.

 

 

 

AvalonBay Communities Inc., based in Alexandria, Va., was recently named 2007 “Property Management Company of the Year” by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) in its annual Pillars of the Industry Awards.

 

 

 

New York Water Taxi (NYWT) believes the renaissance of downtown Yonkers, combined with the increased congestion faced by Westchester commuters driving into Manhattan, will make its newest venture a success.

 

 

 

Last week, Spano was formally announced as a member of Prudential Rand’s commercial services team. Spano, who represented the city of Yonkers in the state Senate, will be based out of the company’s Yonkers sales office and will be handling commercial real estate transactions.

 

 

 

With its recent approval by the city of White Plains to provide fiber-optic cable television service, called FiOS, Verizon is hoping to continue to expand the service in the county and throughout the state.

 

 

 

The county’s Office of Tourism was recently awarded a $15,000 grant from the New York State Division of Tourism that will be used for marketing and promotion, said Margo Jones, director of the Westchester County office.

 

 

 

Businesses from White Plains to Albany came to the Poughkeepsie Civic Center earlier this month for the Gateway to Entrepreneurial Tomorrow’s (GET) first business expo.

 

 

 

The Harriman family’s contributions are an integral part of America’s history and particularly the history of the Hudson Valley where a town is named in their honor and where Harriman State Park is “backyard” for thousands of residents and visitors each year and where the family homestead at Arden, in Orange County, overlooks the Hudson Valley from its perch on top of the mountain. Figures larger than life that drew both kudos and controversy, the Harrimans are truly a part of Hudson Valley’s history.

 
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