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westfaironline.com September, 26 2022
$4 E M OS O 00 P FR M O P L $ E O EN 5 AIS 00M REDEVEL PR SANCE HOT
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Pkatz@westfairinc.com proposal has been made to redevelop the former Renaissance Westchester Hotel at 80 W. Red Oak Lane in Harrison into a mixed-use community that would have the potential of creating up to 760 residential rental units along with about 2,500 square feet of retail space and cultural facilities that would be avail-
How to respond when violence enters the workplace
Rendering showing part of the proposed Renaissance Harrison development.
able to the general public. The project is known as Renaissance Harrison and would be developed by the firms Rose Equities and Garden Communities. The principals of the two firms have known each other for decades and jointly developed properties with almost 5,000 residential units. Rose Equities was founded by brothers Jack and Leonard Glickman, and traces its roots
to 1949 when their parents purchased a property in New Jersey. In 1981, the firm moved to California, where it today has offices in Beverly Hills and Irvine. Garden Communities is a privately held company based in Short Hills, New Jersey, with more than 60 years of residential and commercial development experience. Garden Communities owns and manages more than 50,000
apartments and more than 25 million square feet of retail, office and hotel space. Rose Equities and Garden Communities currently are building The Residences at Main, a 260-unit apartment community in Trumbull, Connecticut. “Harrison’s Comprehensive Plan has called for the reimaging of what’s known as the Teardrop Neighborhood. They did some of
the heavy lifting already,” Leonard Glickman, principal of Rose Equities, told the Business Journals. “Lifetime came in, Wegmans came in, Toll Brothers has opened their 450-unit Carraway project and Trammel Crow is building their 450 units on Westchester Avenue. We look at this 28-acre site as really the crown jewel of the Teardrop
BY JUSTIN MCGOWN
firm Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessy, explained best practices for protecting businesses from liability stemming from instances of violence through implementing safety best practices and understanding the obligations employers have in worst case scenarios. Zaino, a labor law expert with
clients across multiple industries, started the discussion with a focus on the labor law implications of major workplace incidents. He pointed to gun violence as a particularly concerning cause, noting that by July 5 the U.S. had seen more than 300 mass shootings during 2022.
“Every year, approximately 2 million employees are victims of workplace violence,” he said. “Those are quite alarming numbers for employers given the rise in workplace violence and just violence in general.” According to Zaino, the
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he Connecticut Business and Industry Association (CBIA) hosted a Sept. 15 webinar on being prepared to deal with workplace violence. Nick Zaino, a partner at the law
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