By Evan Fallor
Evan@Westfairinc.com
Foto in W Final by Evan Fallor
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HED:Â Chappaqua Crossing could be next Armonk Square
Since its opening more than two years ago, Armonk Square has proven to be a retail success story. The development project has revitalized a previously slumping stretch of downtown and brought in increased foot traffic to the tucked away hamlet near the Connecticut border.
The _____ between Main Street and Maple Ave. includes one-bedroom apartments, shops, offices and the DeCicco’s Family Markets supermarket, which anchors the 3.43-acre site.
Chappaqua Crossing, the long-anticipated mixed-use development, looks to build off that northern Westchester hamlet’s success – but on a larger scale.
Plans by ____-based developer Summit Greenfield Partners on a 120-acre prtion of the former Readers Digest Association headquarters include 120,000 square feet of retail space anchored by a 40,000-square-foot Whole Foods Market, similar to the DeCicco’s-anchored Armonk Square. While its hamlet neighbor -and possible future competitor- houses ______, Chappaqua Crossing will
After an A & P supermarket across the street from the current Armonk Square site closed in February 2012,
On the Chappaqua Crossing website, Summit ___ President Felix Charney said the development will “serve as a model for how a large, single tenant corporate office campus can be adaptively re-used.”
The hub of shops and restaurants has put Armonk on par with neighboring commercial destinations like Mount Kisco, Greenwich, Stamford and White Plains.
Mount Kisco specifically has seen a rise in commercial vacancy in the past half-decade
Its developers, brothers John and Dominick DioGuardi, and Alan Zaresky,
Fortina, the trendy Italian restaurant specializing in  pizzas, opened in May 2013.
