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Condo Cantatore Approved for 10 Windsor Terrace; BID Gets Their Bucks
Posted on Tuesday, May 06 @ 00:03:12 EDT by jfbailey
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WPCNR COMMON COUNCIL CHRONICLE EXAMINER. May 5, 2003, UPDATED WITH PICTURES, 9:30 A.M. E.D.T.: The Common Council approved the creator of Clayton Park developer Frank Cantatore's plan for a 71-unit, 11-story condominium, with 1 and 2-bedroom units starting at $800,000, at 10 Windsor Terrace Monday evening.
GENTRIFICATION OF EASTVIEW CONTINUES: The approval of "Condo Cantatori" planned for this site on 10 Windsor Terrace, was assured after Mr. Cantatori consulted with Windsor Terrace neighbors that he would pay attention to their concerns to mitigate noise, tightly control construction workers' parking, address rodent irradication on the site, and work closely with the Building and Planning Departments to landscape the site to shield neigbors on either side.
Photo by WPCNR News
LUSH LIFE EAST OF NORTH BROADWAY: The elegant facade of the 71-unit luxury condominium approved for the 10 Windsor Terrace site Monday night. The building will be 11-stories, including rooftop penthouse, with 5 1-bedroom units, 57 2-bedrooms, 9 3-bedroom units with 146-parking spaces in an underground garage. Units start at $800,000 and go as high as $1,000,000. Call now.
Photo by WPCNR News
The approval deal was struck because Mr. Cantatore agreed to contribute $20,000 to distribute to potential purchasers of workforce housing (persons with income approximately $80,000 a year) in what is described as the city's "Downpayment Assistance Program."
Satisfying Council Concerns
This nominal contribution by Mr. Cantatore was in lieu of setting aside several of the condominium units for "affordable" housing. Mr. Cantatore said the economics of the project would not work if he lost the full market value of any of the units in the condominium complex. (The 6% affordable housing rule created by the City of White Plains for all new multiple dwellings only applies to the Centrual Business District.) The Common Council, specifically Mr. Boykin and Mr. Hockley felt strongly that Mr. Cantatore should address the affordable housing issue in some way as the project wended its way through the approval process
VIEW FROM EASTVIEW SCHOOL, AMHERST PLACE: The posh building will occupy this site, between the two existing apartment buildings 30 Windsor Terrace and 2-4 Windsor Terrace, fronting on Windsor, and also accessible from Amherst Place, foreground.
Photo by WPCNR News
BROADSIDE of the luxury building as it would appear to one of the two buildings on either side of it, 2-4 and 30 Windsor Terrace.
Photo by WPCNR News
Thomas Roach, Councilman, noted at the approval that it was important for the city to formulate a policy on affordable housing for all future developers so they knew where they stood.
BID weathers Hockley Criticism
In other action, the Council approved a resolution upping the Downtown Business Improvement District (The BID) budget to $450,000 from $400,000, despite commentary from Councilman Glen Hockley last week that the BID should take a more active role in economic development of the downtown.
The council also set terms for city court judgeships at 6 years and 10 years, and made it law that a city judge had to be a resident of the city.
Cappelli Gets His Higher Loft Request.
The council approved Louis Cappelli's request for an increase in height of his loft condominium building on Martine Avenue in the City Center Project, allowing Mr. Cappelli to build the loft to a height of 115 feet, instead of 101 feet, and incorporating 20 to 30 units instead of 40 as originally planned. The dashing Mr. Cappelli swooped in at the very close of the Council meeting to present the details of the minor site plan ammendment personally.
Mr. Cappelli noted that Barnes & Noble had taken more square footage on the street level floor of the City Center, and that National Amusements was building theatres with coffee bars and high degree of luxury "a cut above" their Greenburgh and Hawthorne complexes. He said the City Center was on schedule to open in October of this year. He cracked a smile when it was suggested by this reporter that the opening of the City Center be televised live.
Kaye Named Employee of the Month
Christopher Kaye, a planner in the Department of Planning for 31 years was honored as Employee of the Month. The Mayor praised him as a man who has "the zoning code committed to memory," and as the person who guides residents through variance requests. He said that Mr. Kaye will be sorely missed when he retires later this year.
Invocation Liberties
Reverend Carol Simpson of First Baptist Church delivered the longest invocation of the new year exceeding the 5-minute speaker's limit by several minutes, lobbying for the city to cooperate with the ministers of the city more extensively and use the men and women of the cloth as a resource. In her actual invocation, she spoke for 5 minutes noting a number of failings of present day society. (Speakers addressing the Common Council are limited to 5 minutes).
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