WPCNR'S THE DEVELOPER NEWS. By John F. Bailey. June 12, 2007: Louis Cappelli, rebuffed in his effort to receive exclusive development rights to the White Plains transit center area for his grandiose Station Square Project one week ago, is reaching out to neighborhood association leaders in White Plains in an attempt to see how he should go about resuscitating the project, according to one neighborhood association leader who spent a substantial and frank discussion with the Super Developer at Mr. Cappelli's headquarters in Valhalla this week. He has, according to a WPCNR "head count" spoken to three such leaders this week.

As described to WPCNR, the developer told our source, (speaking to WPCNR on condition of anonymity),  that he wanted to get a sense of how to proceed with developing the area. Our source said that far from the Station Square project being "dead," Mr. Cappelli seemed eager to learn how he might proceed to secure city support for aspects of the plan, or all of the Station Square plan from the individual neighborhood associations, our source said. The source said that Mr. Cappelli admited that he was wrong in how he approached the Station Square project without going to the neighborhoods first.

According to the source we spoke to, Mr. Cappelli indicated to that source that he was going to speak to all neighborhood association heads to repitch the project.

WPCNR has reached out to Mr. Cappelli's spokesperson to get a sense of the extent of Mr. Cappelli's new grassroots overtures.