YONKERS, NY-About 1,000 people gathered along the Yonkers waterfront Thursday to hear Governor George Pataki and city leaders dedicate the $53-million Larkin Center building, which will serve as the main branch of the Yonkers Public Library and Board of Education headquarters.

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY-Dutchess County has issued a Request for Proposals for a 339-acre vacant tract of land across from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park that had been proposed for a 600,000-sf research center for the food industry.

WHITE PLAINS, NY-Developer Louis Cappelli says he is studying the possibility of developing condominiums at his $300-million City Center at White Plains development, which is currently under construction here.

SCARSDALE, NY-Safavieh Rugs & Home has entered the Westchester County retail market with a new 12,000-sf store near Lord & Taylor in the Shoppes at Eastchester complex on Route 22.

WHITE PLAINS-HRH Construction LLC, a firm that has helped build a number of high-profile Manhattan properties, is planning to shift some personnel from New York City to 22,000 sf of subleased office space here, globest.com has learned.

STAMFORD, CT-A major portion of the 175,000 sf of space at 400 Atlantic St. here that American Express Co. had leased in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center will soon be coming available on the sublease market.

STAMFORD, CT-American Express Corp., has officially put the space it had leased in Stamford shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, on the market for sublease.

WHITE PLAINS-At a topping off ceremony for its Bank Street Commons project here Thursday, LCOR officials said that it could have a deal to build a new hotel at the site by this fall.