Monstermoving.com Leases Corporate Headquarters in White Plains

WHITE PLAINS-TMP Worldwide’s recently launched moving services website Monstermoving.com has signed a lease for 45,000 sf for the top two floors at 50 Main Street in Downtown White Plains. While the company is currently moving into its space on the top floor, the firm may never move into its leased space on the 15th floor unless it receives some incentives from New York State and or Westchester County, a broker who represents Monstermoving.com says.

Arthur H. Lerner, vice chairman of Newmark & Co. Real Estate Inc. in Manhattan, says that while the deal has been signed, the company decided afterward that rather than move employees from other Monstermoving.com locations in Beaverton and Portland, OR and in Connecticut, the firm would hire as many as 1,000 new workers. Lerner said that at the time of the lease signing, the company did not feel it was eligible for any employee training incentives. Now that the firm is hiring new employees, it believes it may be eligible for state and county incentives.

Salvatore J. Carrera, director of the Westchester County Department of Economic Development, says that his office enters into discussions with corporations requesting incentive assistance prior to a lease being signed. He said that neither Monstermoving.com nor Newmark came into his office to ask for state or county incentives prior to the lease being signed.