WPCNR East Side Story. By John F. Bailey. June 27, 2006: In a citywide mailing this weekend, North Street Community presented a composite description of its senior residential community. A public hearing on the project is scheduled for July 5 at the next monthly meeting of the Common Council. The brochure announces for the first time that doctors’ services and the services of the renovated St. Agnes Hospital planned to feature residential apartments for those in need of assistance with daily activities and medical conditions requiring nursing care will be available to residents of White Plains.
C. J. Follini, one of the Managing Members of North Street Community confirmed this policy in an interview on the White Plains Week television program which will be -cablecast this Friday at 7:30 P.M. on WPPA-TV, in which Mr. Follini, interviewed by John Bailey, Peter Katz and Jim Benerofe stated the assisted living units and long-term care units would also be available to White Plains citizens needing end-of-life care.
Follini said the details of the financial arrangements and conditions had yet to be worked out. A White Plains resident seeking assisted living or long-term care, he said, would not have to own a condominium apartment in the complex to use either the doctors services or the St. Agnes assisted living/nursing care facility.
According to the 4-color brochure received by this reporter, the St. Agnes Hospital building will be converted to contain 40 “assisted living residential units” and 40 “long-term care” units and medical services. As has been stated publicly previously by Mr. Follini, emergency services will not be made available in the former St. Agnes Hospital site.
The condominium residential component of the project will consist of “390 independent living senior residential condominium units” that will be from four to seven stories in height. Follini notes on the program that the location of the condominiums is in a downward sloped section of the property to present the lowest profile possible to the surrounding area. The entire project, the brochure notes, will cost $125 Million. Condominium units are designed, and be price-pointed from $400,000 to $900,000. Projecting an approval by the Common Council this year, Follini expects the project to be completed by 2008.
In the program, Follini makes a case for the need for senior living facilities in Westchester County, and describes a continuum of health care standing by for condominium buyers, as well as White Plains residents who may avail themselves of the doctors’ services on site, as well as the choice of the planned assisted living and long-term care nursing facility in the remodeled St. Agnes Hospital.
