RealShare Westchester To Cover County Issues

The program, a presentation of Real Estate Media, the parent company of Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com, will be held at the Crowne Plaza White Plains Hotel on Tuesday, Aug. 15. The event, which drew hundreds of attendees last year, will begin at 8:05 a.m. with opening remarks by Westchester County Executive Andrew Spano, who earlier this week was one of the speakers at the topping off ceremony at Donald Trump and Louis Cappelli's Trump Tower high-rise condo project under construction in New Rochelle.

Michael Desiato, group publisher and editorial director of Real Estate Media, will preside over a Town Hall Meeting that will discuss the state of the Westchester County real estate market. Joining Desiato will be Michael Siegel of CB Richard Ellis, Bruce Berg of Cappelli Enterprises, David Cohen of GE Real Estate and Andy Merin of Cushman & Wakefield Capital Markets.

Next, Pardon the Interruption, borrowing the format of the popular ESPN talk show of the same name, Joe Apicella of Cappelli Enterprises and David Sims of Reckson Associates Realty Corp. will go back and forth on some of the major issues facing Westchester's real estate and business communities now and into the future.

Other insightful presentations on tap that day will include a focus on the many waterfront developments that have been built, are under construction or planned along the Hudson River and Long Island Sound shorelines. "The Demographics and Developers Behind the Multifamily and Condo Craze" is the title of a roundtable program that will feature officials from JPI, Noyack Medical Partners, which is redeveloping the former St. Agnes Hospital property in White Plains, and AvalonBay Communities, which is engaged in high-rise ventures in New Rochelle and White Plains.

Also scheduled at RealShare will be a discussion featuring some of the top commercial brokers and property owners in Westchester on the outlook for office leasing, investment and development in the county.

The program will conclude with an update on the City of Yonkers, that will feature Yonkers Mayor Philip Amicone, Ellen Lynch, president and chief executive officer of the Yonkers Industrial Development Agency, as well as representatives of Yonkers Raceway, the Yonkers BID and Fidelco Advisory Services, which is one of three development firms studying the possible development of more than 500 acres in the downtown and along the waterfront in Yonkers.