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The Cappelli News: Topping Off Is Partially Postponed Due to Snow.
Posted on Thursday, February 06 @ 18:09:41 EST by jfbailey
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WPCNR THE CAPPELLI NEWS, FRIDAY UPDATE, By John Bailey and Cappelli Enterprises News Bureau. February 7, 2003: A “Topping Off” ceremony for the retail/entertainment portion of the new $320 million, 1.1 million-square-foot City Center in downtown White Plains, marking the half-way point in construction scheduled for this afternoon was postponed until sometime next week according to a construction supervisor on the site. Nevertheless, to get a "leg up," a piece of the top was put in place using interior welding workers to secure it during the light snowfall this afternoon.
HALF A CROWN: The facade of the City Center Mamaroneck Avenue and Main Street receiving its styled "window" frame Thursday afternoon despite the steady snowfall. The two-piece final crown is expected to be put in place sometime next week..
Photo by WPCNR News
The retail/entertainment portion of City Center at White Plains is scheduled to open in the Fall of 2003 with a 150,000-square-foot Target store, an 80,000-square-foot National Amusements movie complex, a 36,000-square-foot Circuit City, an 8,000-square-foot Legal Sea Foods restaurant, a Greenpoint Bank, a 240-seat Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill & Bar, and a 275-seat Zanero’ s Italian Restaurant.
City Center will also include 600 luxury residences in two 35-foot towers and another 40 loft-style apartments in an adjacent building. Both are slated for completion in mid-2004.
WPCNR has also learned that Cappelli Enterprises has leased two-thirds of the City Center, with the exception of the second floor. The firm is looking at leasing that second floor space to 2 or 3 organizations, and is considering the possibility of converting the areas backed up to the North Tower into office space. Interest in the second floor is said to be good.
ALL-CAPPELLI, ALL-THE-TIME: WILL START SOUTH TOWER IN APRIL. The North Tower of the City Center complex, sitting on 27 stories, as it appeared Friday afternoon, when workers were pouring concrete for floor number 28.
Photo by WPCNR News
Mr. Cappelli Friday updated his plans announced just the beginning of this week, reporting to the Urban Renewal Agency that he would start the South Tower in May. He said the 28th Floor of the north Tower was being poured in today's snow. He said he expected to begin pouring concrete for the loft building within 3 weeks and begin construction of that 10-story building at that time. Mr. Cappelli noted the 1,900 square foot condominiums in the loft would sell for slightly less than a million dollars each.
Geoffrey Thompson, spokesman for Cappelli Enterprises said Thursday the North Tower ( now at 27 stories, according to Cappelli Vice President, Bruce Berg), would reach the 35th floor within a month, and is scheduled to open in the first quarter of 2004.
Thompson said Mr. Cappelli had decided to commence the South Tower construction back-to-back with the topping out of the North Tower, after daily observation of traffic flows. Cappelli feels that to move the cranes out and then bring them back later after the City Center was open would be too disruptive to traffic flow.
NEW CAPPELLI CITY GARAGE ON TARGET: Mr. Cappelli UPDATED estimates of Thursday on the City Garage progress is building for the city, now in full swing, shown from Martine Avenue. He reports it ahead of schedule and due to open as early as September 1 this fall.
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WPCNR reports that Duncan Webb of Webb Management Services, the theatre consultant the city has contracted to develop a business plan for the 10,000 square foot, 400-seat theatre, also being constructed at the City Center, has been conducting interviews with White Plains art and theatre groups. He is determining how the various local performing groups would see using the Performing Arts Theatre, as part of Webb Management's process of determining a business plan, and selecting a theatre management firm.
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