The Westchester chapter of the Building Owners and Managers Association honored two Bronx-based organizations reshaping Westchester County”™s health care landscape at the chapter”™s 23rd annual Hall of Honor Awards Dinner on May 8.
Montefiore Medical Center and Simone Development Cos. were recognized for their contributions to Westchester”™s economy at the annual gathering at Abigail Kirsch at Tappan Hill in Tarrytown.
Montefiore in 2013 acquired the bankrupt Sound Shore Health System”™s hospitals in Mount Vernon and New Rochelle and its New Rochelle nursing home. The academic medical center in the Bronx this summer is expected to complete an agreement that would add White Plains Hospital to its metropolitan health system.
Montefiore last year also purchased a 300,000-square-foot office complex from Kraft Foods in Tarrytown for administrative and back office operations. About 850 workers are employed there.
Formerly headquartered in New Rochelle, Simone Development Cos. last year began construction of an 85,000-square-foot medical office building at 3030 Westchester Avenue in the company”™s Harrison Executive Park in Purchase. The development, done in partnership with Fareri Associates L.P. of Greenwich, Conn., has been designed for and leased to WESTMED Medical Group.
The association also presented its annual Best of BOMA Signature Awards for excellence in property management.
This year”™s awards and winners were:
Tenant Fit Out: Xylem Inc., Reckson Executive Park in Rye Brook.
Creative Real Estate Deal of the Year: Scarsdale Medical Group, Saxon Woods Corporate Center in Harrison.
Signature Building Team of the Year: RPW Group”™s Robert P. Weisz, Lorraine DeMaria, Nik Ilic, Dan Hannon and Itamar Simoes, and RPW”™s leasing agents at Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, Glenn Walsh and Larry Ruggieri, for their work at 1133 Westchester Ave. in White Plains.
BOMA Westchester President”™s Award was presented to the chapter”™s founding members,
Joel Cardillo, Bill Friedman, Denis Guerin and Tony Lifrieri.
