Autism center to open at Chappaqua Crossing
Owners of Chappaqua Crossing signed a long-term lease with a health care company that plans to open a 15,000-square-foot play center for children with autism and other disorders and fill more than 100 jobs on the former Reader”™s Digest Association campus in the town of New Castle.
The tenant, WeeZee”¦ the World of “YES, I CAN!,” will lease a total of 24,000 square feet in Building 400 of the office complex at 480 Bedford Road. The corporate headquarters of ACCESS Nursing Services, a temporary healthcare personnel company, will occupy 9,000 square feet of space there. The two businesses are expected to occupy the space in March.
Louise Weadock, a registered nurse, founded both companies. WeeZee is her family nickname.
Currently based in Pleasantville, ACCESS Nursing has about 25 office employees. The Chappaqua Crossing office will oversee the company”™s offices in Manhattan, Baltimore, Md., and Jersey City and Newark, N.J., along with its private nursing concession offices at several Manhattan hospitals.
WeeZee”™s programs are for children ages 1 through 12. The facility, which the company said is the largest of its kind on the East Coast, will provide a therapeutic setting that includes equipment designed to improve academic performance, athletic coordination and social relationships in children with autism and other sensory integration disorders.
WeeZee will also offer programs for children with diagnosed learning disabilities. The facility will include 15 offices that will be rented to therapists, doctors, teachers and educators.
The company expects to create more than 100 full- and part-time jobs at Chappaqua Crossing. It plans to offer medical and academic internships for high school, college and medical school students.
David Walsh, asset management director at Chappaqua Crossing, in a press release said the two healthcare businesses “fit perfectly with Chappaqua Crossing”™s tenant profile of small and medium-sized companies who are finding our location both attractive and convenient.”
The former Reader”™s Digest campus is owned by Summit/Greenfield, a partnership of Summit Development L.L.C. and Greenfield Partners L.L.C., real estate services and investment companies based in South Norwalk, Conn. The landmark complex includes 700,000 square feet of office space.
Current tenants are Northern Westchester Hospital, with 35,000 square feet of space; Mount Kisco Medical Group, which has added back-office operations that nearly doubled its space to 40,000 square feet; Fiber Media, with 35,000 square feet of space; and the U.S. General Services Administration, which leases 6,000 square feet.
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New tenants, deals At The Centre
Two companies will relocate to The Centre at Purchase and three current tenants renewed or expanded their space at the Manhattanville Road office park in recent long-term deals that totaled 67,000 square feet of office space.
Stroz Friedberg L.L.C., an international digital risk management and investigations firm based in Manhattan, by March will move its Westport, Conn., operations into 8,227 square feet of custom-built space at 3 Manhattanville Road, said brokers at Newmark Knight Frank.
Newmark Knight Frank is exclusive leasing agent for The Centre”™s owner, a partnership of George Comfort & Sons and O”™Connor Capital Partners. The deals were brokered by NKF”™s Michael McCall and managing principal Stephen Banker.
Cushman & Wakefield brokers Larry Ruggieri and Torey Walsh represented Stroz Friedberg in the deal.
Also at 3 Manhattanville Road, Boyden World Corp., an executive recruiting firm with more than 70 offices in more than 40 countries, will relocate its headquarters from 50 Broadway in Hawthorne. The company was represented by NKF”™s McCall.
At 2 Manhattanville Road, Richard Fleischman & Associates Inc., an information technology consultant to hedge funds and other financial firms, renewed its lease for its 34,263-square-foot data center. The lease renewal requires the company to make capital improvements to its date-center space.
Steven Greenbush and David Hollander of CB Richard Ellis negotiated the renewal for the tenant.
Another longtime tenant, Greywolf Capital Management L.P., renewed for 18,531 square feet at 4 Manhattanville Road. Craig Ruoff of Rakow Commercial Realty brokered the deal for Greywolf.
Also at 4 Manhattanville Road, Hitachi Metals America Ltd. added 3,730 square feet of space, bringing its total square footage at The Centre to more than 28,000 square feet. Hitachi has been headquartered there since 2002.
