A Philadelphia-area real estate company that entered Westchester”™s commercial office market two years ago and a Swiss educational company that has expanded its academic presence in the county through adaptive reuse of a former IBM campus were honored at the 25th annual Hall of Honor Awards Dinner of the Building Owners and Managers Association of Westchester.
Receiving the BOMA chapter”™s Hall of Honor Award at Tappan Hill in Tarrytown were Keystone Property Group and EF Education First. The award is given annually to companies that support and encourage economic growth in Westchester County.
Keystone in 2014 acquired five Class A office buildings in Greenburgh and Tarrytown as part of a nearly $231 million deal for a dozen office properties in the tristate portfolio of Mack-Cali Realty Corp. The deal included 555, 565 and 570 Taxter Road outside Elmsford and the Talleyrand Office Park at 200 and 220 White Plains Road in Tarrytown.
Richard Gottlieb, senior vice president and operating partner, accepted the award for Keystone Property Group.
EF Education First, a private for-profit organization headquartered in Lucerne, Switzerland, in 2008 redeveloped the former Marymount College campus in Tarrytown into an EF International Language Center and in 2014 paid $17 million to a Roman Catholic religious order for IBM”™s former Thornwood Conference Center and 97-acre campus at 582-590 Columbus Ave. The Thornwood campus has been converted to an EF Academy International Boarding School for high school-level students.
Accepting the award for EF Education First were Headmaster Brian Mahoney and Executive Director Philip Johnson.
The BOMA President”™s Award was given to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, which has its national headquarters at Reckson Executive Park in Rye Brook. The award is given to an individual or institution making a significant and positive long-term contribution to the well-being of the community.
Accepting the award at the May 19 ceremony was Rosemarie Loffredo, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society executive vice president, chief administrative officer and CFO.
The Westchester chapter also conferred two Best of BOMA awards this year.
Purchase Professional Park, a four-building, 220,000-square-foot office park at 3000-3040 Westchester Ave., was named Comeback Building of the Year for a recently completed major renovation and modernization project. Landlord Simone Development Cos. developed the park in partnership with Fareri Associates of Greenwich with a focus on creating state-of-the-art office and clinical space for medical practices.
Accepting the award was Patricia Simone, president of Simone Management Group.
Cushman & Wakefield Inc. won BOMA”™s Signature Building Team of the Year award for its management of the Gateway Building, a, 32-year-old, 18-story office tower at 1 N. Lexington Ave. in downtown White Plains. The building is managed by a Cushman & Wakefield team of Caroline Malloy, senior property manager; Kevin Ullrich, assistant property manager; Robert Melly, chief engineer, and Joseph Roccuzzo, assistant engineer.
Melly accepted the award for the team.
