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TOM AND SURI'S NEW HOME?
July 31, 2012
| Rumor has it that Tom Cruise is searching for a secluded house in Westchester or Fairfield to be close to daughter Suri. Perhaps he should have been one of the 175 attendees last Tuesday at the Westchester Country Club for Bisnow's Future of Westchester and Fairfield Counties event—he might have learned a thing or two. (We could have even provided him with a couch.) |
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| At the event, we snapped Mohawk Group’s John Talio, Fidelity National Title’s Sandra Fitzpatrick, and Matrix Corporate Center’s Aaron Smiles. Aaron tells us that Matrix Corporate Center, on Old Ridgebury Road in Danbury, is interviewing major hospitality flags in anticipation of a 250-key hotel that will break ground at the center in January or February. Why Danbury? “Hotel occupancy there is 98% from Monday through Thursday,” he says. We imagine there are some fantastic muffins at the continental breakfasts. |
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| But if you're not looking to stay overnight, there are other options: Great sponsor Matrix Corporate Center has executive and virtual space to help incubate companies, with single-, double-, and triple-occupancy options. Above, we snapped Matrix Corporate Center’s Phil Nelson, LeRoy Diggs, Brianna Nelson, and Steve Kirschner, who tells us these tenants can enjoy access to a wide range of amenities, like a cafeteria, fitness center, bank, dry cleaners,Starbucks, covered parking, and more. |
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| CBRE’s Gene Pride, Transwestern’s Pat Bisceglia, and Design Resources and Solutions’ Robert Ferraro. Pat recently joined Tom Ashforth at Transwestern’s Greenwich office, where he focuses on investment sales in Connecticut and the NYC 'burbs. He’s actively marketing multiple on- and off-market deals, and he tells us that investors love multifamily and mixed-use properties in the best towns. Medical office has also garnered a lot of interest. But traditional office? Not so much. (Who wants traditional office when you can play with stethoscopes and tongue depressors?) |
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| Here are Susan Callahan, Matthew Musselman, and Erin Patterson from great sponsor Jones Lang LaSalle. Research guru Erin tells us that there isn’t much of a recovery when it comes to office-using employment in Westchester and Fairfield Counties. (Read why in yesterday's coverage of our main event.) But there are pockets of activity in transit hubs like White Plains, Greenwich, and Stamford, where there’s tightening in high-quality space and a greater shift toward landlords. |
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| CBRE’S Kay Licata, J. Hilburn’s Ann Lindsay, and Alianza Services’Dawn Cannon. Research maven Kay, whose firm also sponsored our event, tells us that her team has been readjusting its statistics to reflect new office reclassifications—in Westchester, 57 buildings (7.7M SF) were moved from Class-A to B, while 21 buildings (2.4M SF) changed from B to C. Ann, a style advisor for custom men’s clothing, says the lastest trends are narrower and shorter. (See: Kourtney Kardashian beau Scott Disick or pretty much any young’un working the room.) If clothes get any narrower, we might be going into another Scott's territory—Hamilton, that is. |
| Of course, no Bisnow event would be complete without the sweet seranade of violins punctuated with the harmonious sounds of networking. Missed our event or want even more schmoozing? Join us Aug. 21 for our third annual New York Sustainability Summit at the NYC Bar Association, where you'll hear the latest from some of the top names in sustainability. (But this time you can be green and take the train.) Sign up here! |
