Topping out for 25 North Lex in White Plains

There’s a 30-feet by 60-feet American flag up in the air in White Plains. The huge flag was hoisted to the eighth floor level of the building under construction at 25 North Lexington Ave. in White Plains, also known as the Gateway II site, at an April 18 topping out ceremony.

Executives of Greystar Real Estate Partners LLC and the Cappelli Organization joined with officials from Westchester County and White Plains for the event, which saw hundreds of construction workers cheering as the National Anthem was played and the flag was hoisted into place. A building’s topping out signifies the structure has reached its maximum height and in many cases features raising the final steel beam into place.

From left: Mike Kavanagh, senior associate of development for Greystar; John Ravitz, executive VP and COO, Business Council of Westchester; David Rivera, senior director of development, Greystar; Louis Cappelli; Emily Wool, senior project manager, Greystar; Deputy County Executive Ken Jenkins; County IDA Chair Joan McDonald; Tom Roach; County Legislator Ben Boykin; and White Plains Common Council Member John Martin.

“This milestone is a fantastic moment for Greystar as well as the White Plains community,” said Gary Kerr, managing director of development at Greystar. “We are incredibly proud that our first ground-up development in New York will support the planning goals of making White Plains an even more attractive place to live, work, and play. Transit-oriented developments like 25 North Lex will help to make the area around stations more vibrant, creating more activity beyond commuting hours.”

Flag at 25 North Lex in White Plains.

Louis R. Cappelli, founder of the Cappelli Organization and LRC Construction, which is handling the construction for Greystar, said,  “I”™m especially proud of all of the dedicated construction workers on site, 300 strong, who make this work look easy to do, but please believe me when I say it, it”™s not easy. It”™s dangerous, precise and complicated work and while it”™s beautifully drawn on paper, we have to turn those lines on the architectural, structural and mechanical drawings into the reality of an iconic building you can touch, see and enjoy living in.”

According to White Plains Mayor Tom Roach, “The goal of connecting the Metro-North train station to the core of the downtown is coming to fruition with the help of mixed-use developments such as Greystar.”

25 North Lex will include 500 apartments with nearly 60,000 square feet of amenities for residents and 16,000 square feet of ground floor retail space. The $300 million project features two intersecting towers of 16 stories and 25 stories rising from a four-story podium that conceals a large, covered parking structure.