A strong relationship with the landlord and attractive leasing terms led the Westchester County Association to move its headquarters last week to 1133 Westchester Ave. in White Plains.
The business group”™s seven-member staff will occupy about 3,000 square feet of space at the former IBM Corp. headquarters, WCA President William M. Mooney Jr. said. WCA officials signed a seven-year lease. Developer Robert P. Weisz, head of RPW Group Inc., bought the 620,000-square-foot office building and 74-acre property from IBM in late 2006.
Mooney said the new second-floor office is slightly smaller than the organization”™s former space at 707 Westchester Ave. in the White Plains Office Park, where the WCA had housed two smaller business groups, most recently the Women”™s Enterprise Development Center Inc. The office park is part of the 1.4 million-square-foot Platinum Mile portfolio of RexCorp Realty L.L.C. in Harrison and White Plains. The WCA relocated a month before its lease was due to expire.
“The current landlords were great to us, they did a great job, but Robert Weisz has been a great supporter of us,” Mooney said from his old office on the day of the move. “It”™s one of the premiere buildings in the county,” he said of 1133 Westchester. “Very favorable” lease terms were another factor in the move. “The payments will be better than what we”™re doing here,” he said. Â Â Â
