Westchester County Business Journal + Front Page

In the beginning was the word and the word was in French.

The word was in The Magnificat, a French devotional publication that in 1994 spawned a German-language twin by the same

High demand from both investors and renters and a continued tight supply of apartments has real estate brokers “bullish” about the multifamily housing market in Westchester County through this year and into 2008.

Golfers always expect to encounter a hazard or two as they make their way around a golf course.

A Swiss clinical manufacturing company that serves the international biopharmaceutical industry will open a U.S. division next year at The Landmark at Eastview.

Sales of single-family homes rose in four of six counties in the lower Hudson Valley between July and August, with Westchester County leading the region’s summer real estate market with the only double-digit increase.

Gary Ferone’s own personal dating odyssey planted the seed for a matchmaking company that in four years has expanded to nine locations. Ferone is the Founder of Great Date Now, an offline matchmaking company geared toward single professionals.

A new building in Cortlandt Manor at the state’s Camp Smith training site will provide training, administrative and maintenance space for 350 N.Y. Army National Guard Soldiers, according to the New York Division of Military and Naval Affairs.

When it was time for The Westchester County Association (WCA) to recognize its first APEX award winner for international business, the one name that kept coming up was Adele Zeller, president of Zelco Industries Inc. of Mount Vernon.

In 2004, the state introduced a Shared Municipal Services Incentive grant program; some have taken advantage of the money in the program, including 12 municipalities in Westchester that formed the Long Island Sound Watershed Intermunicipal Council.

ITT Corp. will save an estimated $562,000 in sales taxes for its $14.8 million headquarters relocation project in White Plains in a lease agreement approved by the Westchester County Industrial Development Agency (IDA).

With help from the U.S. Small Business Administration, Community Capital Resources (CCR) is on track to issue more micro-loans in 2007 than ever before.

The state’s economic performance is dismal.

So said Ken Adams, president and CEO of The Business Council of New York State.

Two Manhattan companies recently moved to Fairfield County, Conn.

Updating its 2002 study on economics and quality of living, the Dyson Foundation released Many Voices One Valley Oct. 8.