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WHITE PLAINS MALL MAKES WAY FOR HAMILTON GREEN BY PETER KATZ Pkatz@westfairinc.com
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ork to demolish the White Plains Mall got underway as August was drawing to a close, setting the stage for construction to begin of the highly anticipated Hamilton Green development. The mall had opened in 1972 at 200 Hamilton Ave. It was built at a cost of $6 million and had more than three-dozen retail tenants. The White Plains Mall was perhaps most commonly known to Westchester residents as home to the White Plains office of the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles. The mall had approximately 170,000 square feet of retail space and 360 parking spaces in two levels, one at grade and the other on the roof of the building.
RXR Hamilton Green rendering phases one and two.
The mall property, covering approximately 3.86-acres, is bounded on the north by Barker Avenue and on the south by Hamilton Avenue. On the east is Cottage Place and to the west is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Among the mall’s more popular retail destinations were Hecht Hardware, McDonald’s, Bob Hyland’s Sports Page Pub, the Noda Hibachi & Sushi restaurant, the Kam Sen Asian Market, the Franklin Clock Shop, Coin Mint, Westchester Trains & Hobbies and Chillemi Shoe Repair. The plan calls for Hamilton Green to be built as a two-phase project. Attorney Mark Weingarten of the White Plains-based law firm DelBello Donnellan Weingarten Wise & Wiederkehr LLP had told the White Plains Common
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Yale New Haven Health System expands presence in Fairfield County BY JUSTIN MCGOWN jmcgown@westfairinc.com
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ale New Haven Health System (YNHHS) continued its expansion into Fairfield County with the opening of a new facility at 325 Riverside Ave. in Westport. The new location, launched in association with the New England Medical Group, is the first YNHHS digestive health facility in the county and will offer a wide range of
services, including bariatric, colorectal and hernia surgery, as well as gastroenterology services. “We are really excited to be here in Westport tonight to dedicate our new facilities for patients who may have digestive health concerns or issues,” said Cynthia Sparer, YNHHS’s president of ambulatory health, at the Aug. 3 ribbon cutting for the facility. “We know that patients throughout the region may need very intensive care,” Sparer said
of the strategy behind situating the facility in Westport. “We have incredible facilities in our hospitals and throughout our health system to take care of them. But what care is also about is making it convenient for people to get what they need. So, this facility like many we have opened over the years really brings the care closer to home for Westport and surrounding communities. Westport has been wonderful and very accommodating. Our teams from facilities and
real estate who did all the work to secure the space and develop it just say nothing but positive things.” Benjamin Lerner, a gastroenterologist at Yale Medicine who will be taking care of patients at both Bridgeport Hospital and the newly opened Digestive Health Center, said he was excited to bring YNHH services to a new market. “This is a great location,” Lerner said. “This is a way for me to be part of Yale and not have to be in just New Haven, and I think
it really works for patients as well. They get to experience Yale and the specialties available through it but closer to home.” Marie Gratton, the interim vice president for digestive health and administration who will be overseeing the facility, said she believed that the center is needed to meet an “absolutely huge demand and actually a lot of unmet demand.” “Recently they changed the screening guidelines for colo-
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