The poor economy has not stopped nearly a score of eateries, retail and financial service companies from opening or readying to open for business in the town of Greenburgh this fall and winter.
 As reported in the Nov. 10 issue of the Business Journal, Klaff”™s Inc., a family-owned home-design company headquartered in South Norwalk, Conn., plans to open its first retail store in New York next spring at 331 Central Ave. The 19,000-square-foot store will occupy a two-story space vacated by Treasure Island Inc. about three years ago.
Another building tenant at that Scarsdale postal address, Natural Selection Furniture, recently relocated.
Greenburgh Town Supervisor Paul Feiner said the following businesses also have opened or are about to open in the town this year:
— Renue Day Spa, 100 N. Central Ave., Hartsdale.
-- Equisearch Inc., a services provider for search and recovery of lost financial assets, moved its headquarters to 555 Taxter Road, Elmsford.
— Kinetics Asset Management Inc., 555 Taxter Road.
— Cerullo L.L.C., 570 Taxter Road, an accounting and financial services firm.
— Community Mutual Bank, Crossroads Shopping Center, 449 Tarrytown Road, White Plains.
— HomeGoods, Crossroads Shopping Center.
— Bushido Karate, White Plains Shopping Center, 53 Tarrytown Road.
— Bob”™s Dry Cleaning, White Plains Shopping Center.
— Royal Beauty, White Plains Shopping Center.
— ABCO Refrigeration, 155 Fulton St., White Plains.
— Dream Dinners, 640 Central Ave, Scarsdale.
— Personal Care Dental, 455 Central Ave., Scarsdale.
Five more food and beverage businesses are scheduled to open in the town in coming months. Starbucks is building a store at 46 S. Central Ave. on the site of the former Gaseteria filling station. At 95 S. Central Ave., Fuji Mountain Restaurant is demolishing the original Carvel ice cream shop to build a new Japanese restaurant. A Chinese restaurant, New Jade Palace, will replace the Global Gatherings eatery at 156 S. Central Ave. Everything Bagels will replace the former Grandma”™s Pie Shop at 415 N. Central Ave. And Frank and Joe”™s Deli will open at 702 Central Ave.
“I”™m really very pleased,” Feiner said of the influx of new businesses. “Although the economy is really bad, these businesses are giving the town a chance and starting up. In this economy, some people would think people would wait it out. I feel it”™s good news for the town.”
Some of the businesses are filling vacant stores on Central Avenue, Feiner noted. “The street has a lot of potential and is a very desirable place to do business,” he said.
Elizabeth Gerrity, office manager in the Town of Greenburgh Building Department, said the number of new businesses applying for permits is “pretty typical” for the town. More notable, she said, is that their numbers have held steady as the economy has plummeted. “I haven”™t seen a decline in new businesses coming in,” she said.
Feiner said town officials “will work hard to help them succeed.”
