Commenting on the hirings, City Center developer, Louis R. Cappelli says, "We feel strongly that the complexity of this high-rise project requires a highly professional and experienced team of a construction manager and safety experts. Although our own George A. Fuller Construction Co. has completed over $1 billion of construction projects over the past decade, we have not built a high-rise of this magnitude, and therefore concluded that we would engage an outside team with an established track record."

The City Center retail/entertainment complex, which is one of several major redevelopment projects under construction in White Plains, will include the entrance into the Westchester County market by Target, which will occupy a 150,000-sf store and Legal Sea Foods, which will be opening an 8,000-sf restaurant at City Center.

Other major tenants include National Amusements, which will operate an 80,000-sf, 15-screen movie theater; Circuit City, which has signed on for a 36,000-sf store and Barnes & Noble, which will have a 25,000-square-foot store. In addition, GreenPoint Bank, a 240-seat Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar and a 275-seat Zanero's Italian Restaurant will also be featured at the development. In addition, the City Center will include a 10,000-sf, 400-seat Community Performing Arts Center. Phase 2 of the City Center venture will include another 300 unit high-rise tower and adjoining loft buildings.

Cappelli, who recently purchased a 110,000-sf property on Main St. for $16 million from the Halpern family, tells GlobeSt.com he hopes to obtain all city approvals by the summer of 2003 so he can begin development of 221 Main St. That project, which is estimated to cost $300 million to build, will include a 200-room Westin hotel, 150 luxury condominium units and a 550,000-sf office building.