Furniture maker makes move
Thos. Moser is opening a furniture showroom at 55 E. Putnam Ave. in Greenwich, its first in Connecticut.
The Auburn, Maine-based manufacturer crafts a wide range of furniture on demand. Thos. Moser also runs “customer in residence” programs at its Maine workshop throughout the year, “working vacations” for participants to learn the art of furniture craftsmanship.
First Niagara adds branch
First Niagara Bank is opening a branch at 721 Canal St. in Stamford”™s Harbor Point development under construction by Building and Land Technology.
The new branch totals just over 3,000 square feet of space. It is Buffalo-based First Niagara”™s fourth branch in Stamford, and eighth in Fairfield County.
Staffing firm takes office
The U.S. subsidiary of staffing company Randstad Holding NV took a small office at 100 First Stamford Place, a multitenant building owned by New York City-based Malkin Properties.
Randstad provides skill assessments, career counseling, training, health coverage and 401(k) options covering 125,000 people in the United States.
UBP buys retail center
Urstadt Biddle Properties Inc. acquired an interest in the Orangetown Shopping Center in Orangeburg, N.Y., its first in Rockland County, N.Y.
The retail center totals 75,000 square feet. Greenwich-based Urstadt Biddle owns 4.9 million square feet of retail and office property in the tristate area.
“This investment will be the platform for UBP to expand its footprint in Rockland County, one of the few high demographic counties surrounding New York City in which the company had not been previously invested,” said Wing Biddle, company president.
Panel rejects Tollgate
A Greenwich board reportedly rejected a proposal that would have created a home for seniors at 345 W. Putnam Ave.
PRI Acquisitions”™ plan for Greenwich Tollgate, a 660,000-square-foot facility, did not contain sufficient information on the impact on nearby wetlands ruled the town”™s Inlands Wetlands and Watercourses panel, according to a report in the Greenwich Time.
