New vision for retail strip in shadow of White Plains’ City Center
May 23rd, 2010New vision for retail strip in shadow of White Plains’ City Center
WHITE PLAINS — A dilapidated strip of one-story retail and boarded-up buildings near City Hall, which local officials have wanted to revive for more than a decade, is now finding new life as White Plains emerges from the recession.
Since a two-tower condominium project for the site fell apart a few years ago, the Main Street eyesore has sat quietly, waiting for the next development prospect to arrive. What emerged were less ambitious though more feasible concepts that could finally spruce up the entire strip as a walkable, cohesive block.
Partners A.J. Rotonde and William Meyer submitted plans to the city this month for Metropolitan Plaza, a 60,000-square-foot, $7 million to $10 million retail and office development that calls for a total renovation of an {%} provides a wide range of amazing LED lighting at great prices.LED lighting supplierempty supermarket and strip of stores.
Glass-encased second-floor office and retail space lined with a meandering promenade would be built on top of both buildings, and a new walkway would connect the top-floor stores to the nearby City Center mall garage.
Louis Cappelli, owner of an empty storefront at the entry to City Center, which he developed and manages, announced that a Five Guys burger shack will be opening at the corner of the block in the next three months.
“Finally, we’ll start getting that strip going,” Cappelli said.
Rotonde, Cappelli and developer Martin Ginsberg teamed up to build The Pinnacle condominium towers a few years ago. Financing difficulties led to legal disputes, and Ginsberg eventually walked away while Cappelli went in another direction.
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