WHITE PLAINS-An Environmental Claims court has been opened in Westchester County to handle civil cases affecting the environment but also issues surrounding the real estate development approval process.

HAWTHORNE, NY-The 90,000-sf building has been sold to a group of New York City investors.

YONKERS-Collins Enterprises officials say the firm in on track to begin construction of its much-anticipated $56 million waterfront redevelopment project here by the end of the second quarter.

STAMFORD, CT-Three brokers working out of Cushman & Wakefield of Connecticut offices here--Stephen Baker, Jay Hruska and Paul Kauffman--have been named among the firm's top 100 brokers for the year 2000.

ELMSFORD, NY-Wilder Balter Partners LLC reports that its Brookview Gardens senior housing development in Babylon, Long Island has been awarded a $1.2 million grant from the Federal Home Loan Bank.

ALBANY, NY-Legg Mason Real Estate Services has arranged two mortgage loans in Albany and in the Rochester area totaling $4.7 million in financing. One property is industrial and the second is retail.

STAMFORD, CT-Although the fate of the economy is anyone's guess at the moment, Cory R. Gubner, president of Chase Commercial Real Estate/TCN Worldwide, believes the Fairfield County office market will remain strong this year.

PEARL RIVER, NY-The Rockland Economic Development Corp. has promoted Maryann Small to vice president of business development. Small has worked with the EDC here since 1995, most recently as its director of business development.