WPCNR MAIN STREET JOURNAL. November 2, 2004: Tenants in the Bar Building, 199 Main Street, the nationally recognized historical landmark in White Plains (on the State Register of Historic Places) are feeling the tremors of the beginning stages of construction of the 221 Main Cappelli Hotel & Condoplex this week. As one office holder said, "It's about .8 on the Richter Scale." The higher you are situated in the building the more you feel the thumps and bumps. Tenants WPCNR spoke with today said it was disconcerting, but they knew what it was. The effects have been felt for the last week and a half.

THE BAR BUILDING SHAKES AS 221 MAIN BEGINS. Photo, WPCNR News Archive.

Bruce Berg, Vice President of Cappelli Enterprises, explained that this jolting and tremors were the beginning of a long process and said the tenants could expect to feel the bumps of the construction "for some time." He explained that equipment was removing the concrete foundations of the former Main Street stores.

He said that the thumps and bumps the tenants of the Bar Building tower were experiencing should lesson somewhat once digging of the Hotel-Condoplex began. Berg said that demolition of the Main street buildings had been completed and the excavating of for the Hotel and Condominium complex had officially begun. Berg assured WPCNR that the walls of the Bar Building would be shored up and that this process would be all around the perimeter of the Bar Building site.