WPCNR MAMARONECK AVENUE AMBLER. From Cappelli Enterprises. February 16, 2005: Cold Stone Creamery, a highly successful Arizona-based ice cream retailer, opened its latest store at City Center in downtown White Plains. Located at 25 Mamaroneck Avenue, Cold Stone Creamery features homemade ice creams that are custom blended on a frozen granite stone.
Founded in 1988 by Donald and Susan Sutherland, Cold Stone Creamery offers consumers a unique ice cream experience. After creating a style of ice cream that was smooth and creamy, rather than the traditional hard-packed or soft-serve varieties, the Sutherlands eventually opened the first Cold Stone Creamery in Tempe, Arizona. Using only the finest ingredients, they produced the highest quality ice cream available, making it fresh each day at their store on the “cold stone” which enabled them to create what they considered to be the perfect ice cream.
Word-of-mouth quickly spread about their unique ice cream and their start-up venture blossomed. In 1995, the first franchise store opened in Tucson, Arizona, followed by the first out-of-state store in Camarillo, California. Today, Cold Stone Creamery, which is privately held, has more than 900 stores across the country, with more than 1,000 additional stores now under consideration. The company has two other Westchester locations, Rye and Scarsdale, and plans to open in Mount Kisco and Mamaroneck, as well as at two Rockland County locations, Nyack and West Nyack, and locations in Greenwich, Stamford and Norwalk, CT.
Cold Stone Creamery joins numerous other retailers and restaurateurs at City Center, a
1.1 million-square-foot retail, entertainment and residential complex. Among the tenants are: a 150,000-square-foot Target; an 88,000-square-foot National Amusements Cinema de Lux with 15 screens, including an IMAX; a 38,000-square-foot Circuit City; a 27,000-square-foot Barnes and Noble; a 56,000-square foot New York Sports Club facility, opening this summer; a 16,000-square-foot Fountain Spa due to open in the fall; a 22,000-square-foot Office Max; a 17,000-square-foot Performing Arts Theater; an 8,000-square-foot Legal Sea Foods; an 8,000-square-foot Zanaro’s Italian Restaurant, a 6,500-square-foot Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill & Bar; a 6,600-square-foot Fleet Bank, a 5,300-square-foot Atlanta Bread Company; and a 3,700-square-foot Greenpoint Bank.
City Center also includes two 35-story luxury residential towers and an 11-story loft building
offering panoramic views of the Manhattan skyline, Long Island Sound, Westchester County
and the Hudson Valley, as well as a loft-style condominium.
One City Place, which opened in May 2004, contains 311 studio, one, two and three-
bedroom luxury rental apartments. Trump Tower at City Center will feature 212 luxury
condominium residences and The Lofts at City Center will offer 27 distinctive, high-ceiling,
So-Ho loft-style condominium apartments and two luxury townhouses. Both Trump Tower
and The Lofts are scheduled to be occupied beginning next fall.
Cappelli Enterprises Inc., the City Center developer, is a leading real estate developer and general contractor in the Northeast. Headquartered in Valhalla, NY, the company has built more than five million square feet of mixed use, retail, waterfront, residential, office building, laboratory and parking facilities.
