Weisz Looks to Build $75M Office Building

WHITE PLAINS-Robert Weisz, president and CEO of locally based RPW Group Inc., went before the Westchester County Industrial Development Agency on Sept. 4 seeking nearly $3.8 million in sales and mortgage tax exemptions in connection with his firm’s plan to build a new commercial office building at 1135 Westchester Ave.

The plan calls for the construction of a 280,000-sf office building at his firm’s 70-acre property that currently includes 1133 Westchester Ave., a more than 600,000-sf office building RPW Group purchased from IBM a few years ago and repositioned as a multi-tenant building in a project estimated at $115 million. That building is currently 80% leased.

Weisz tells GlobeSt.com that the new office-building project will cost approximately $75 million to build. Also at the property–which is adjacent to Maple Moor Golf Course and at the crossroads of I-287 and the Hutchinson River Parkway–RPW Group has to only secure building permits to begin construction on a 160-room hotel at 1131 Westchester Ave. That project has been estimated at between $30 million and $40 million.