A newly forming spinoff business of Axispoint Inc., an information technology services company based in Manhattan, plans to open headquarters next year in the former town police station in Ossining.
Frank Scanga, president of the spinoff company and co-founder and current executive vice president for business development at Axispoint, said the company will relocate 36 employees in its anticipated move by midsummer 2014 from its Westchester office at 33 W. Main St. in Elmsford to the vacant police station at 507 N. State Road. The approximately 8,300-square-foot building, for which Axispoint has agreed to pay $1.475 million, will be used for offices and as an IT and data processing center.
Scanga told Westchester County Industrial Development Agency directors at their November meeting that he expects to double the company”™s employment in Ossining over the next five years. “We look to be north of 60 employees,” he said.
The company is seeking a straight-lease financial arrangement with the county IDA that will result in a mortgage tax exemption of about $17,260 for the business. Construction and renovation costs are estimated at $150,000. The IDA board will schedule a public hearing on the Axispoint application.
Westchester County Economic Development Director Eileen Mildenberger noted the private company”™s station purchase will put the former public building on the property tax roll. “I think it”™s a stellar example of public-private partnership,” she said.
Deputy County Executive Kevin J. Plunkett, vice chairman of the IDA board, said the business growth fostered by the sale of the old police station also was the result of the county”™s agreement to take over police services for the town of Ossining. The cost-saving practice began nearly three years ago.
