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Westchester Business Center (WBC) Opens New Location at Chappaqua Crossing

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Professional and Private Office Spaces Providing the Right Solution for Every Type of Business

After years of success operating Westchester Business Center’s highly regarded main location in downtown White Plains, the team is thrilled to share the news of an additional location opening in Northern Westchester at Chappaqua Crossing this summer.

Chappaqua Crossing is an ideal location to expand the WBC brand given the attractive setting in the recently refurbished Readers Digest Headquarters. It has easy highway access from the Saw Mill Parkway and many available amenities including a Whole Foods Market, Starbucks, and Life Time Fitness all on the property.

Westchester Business Center offers a variety of office solutions for businesses seeking flexible office space for individuals or teams, co-working spaces, day offices and conference rooms, as well as virtual office services. Their current White Plains location has been a home for many Westchester based business professionals providing them with the flexible office space, service and technology they have needed for over 18 years.

This announcement is coming at an extremely relevant time as many businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic are either looking to downsize or work closer to home after moving back to the suburbs. As COVID-19 hit New York State exceptionally hard this past year, Westchester Business Center has provided a perfect space for those businesses that are transitioning as well as new businesses just looking to get their feet off the ground.

This new location will boast a total of 29 office spaces, 10 coworking spaces, a Zoom room, a therapy room and provide other essential business amenities such as conference rooms, a fully equipped kitchen, and administrative services.

The official grand opening date of their new location is set tentatively for June 1st, and the sales office is set to open on May 1st. Memberships are currently available at the new location for private offices, team rooms, co-working spaces, and virtual membership.  

About Westchester Business Center

The Westchester Business Center (WBC) is a premiere full-service executive workspace for businesses. With convenient locations in downtown White Plains and Chappaqua Crossing, WBC offers easily accessible and centrally located spaces to start or grow a business. With affordable pricing and flexible terms on office space, virtual services, and fully equipped conference rooms, WBC offers something for every business model and budget. Whether you’re seeking conference room space to meet with clients, additional space to support a growing team, virtual services to fill a skills gap, or anything in between, WBC has what you need to succeed.

For more information about the Westchester Business Center or to reserve your space at the new location, visit www.Westchester.Business or call 914-304-4000.

14 Reasons Why Moms from ‘It’s Ma Business’ Can’t Wait to Leave Home

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The Moms of It’s Ma Business are looking forward to leaving their homes.  Here are a few reasons:  

14) Stop doing dishes (Cindy Greenstein, The Points Mom)

13) So that I can give a big hug to all the people that I’ve missed!!  (Lisa Sklar, Joy of Stylin’)

12) Really miss actually going into stores to choose my own items! (Sue Bolen of Sue Bolen Publicity, LLC)

11) Looking forward to getting dressed!  (Beth Greenberg, BG Designs Wardrobe Consulting)

10) So I can see my patients outside the hours of my child’s sleep schedule (Rebecca A. Harmon, Psy.D., Licensed Clinical Psychologist)

09) I CANNOT WAIT to hug, laugh and celebrate in person with friends and family (Lisa Katz, Law Offices of Lisa S. Katz PLLC).

08) Visiting with and hugging my mom! (Karen Roth, Apogee Wealth Advisors)

07) Looking forward to gathering a large crowd around my table to toast to our good health!   And to being able to travel again. (Jackie Polikoff, Courtyard Travel)

06) I have become a short order cook, a laundromat and a barber all before 9 a.m.!!! I miss being a Moober driver! (Kathryn Weinberger, Beauty Releaf)

05) To my kids being able to socialize and get back to their normal schedules. (Jodi Baretz, LCSW, Mindful Mindset Coach and Therapist)

04) I’m excited to get the chance to walk through town, do my errands and run into old friends that I haven’t been able to see for such a long time!  (Debbie Lieberman,  Let’s Sort It Out By Deb)

03) Stop cleaning up in my kitchen 10 times a day! (Karen Graham, Discover Peach)

02) Wishing my kids could stop missing important milestones and enjoy being kids again (Marlo Klein, MBK Interiors/MBK Dorm)

01) Watch my kids play sports with their friends. (Dana E. Berk, SAMCRO Design)

 From our families to yours, we wish you and yours safety and well-being.  Happy Mother’s Day!  Visit all the moms of It’s Ma Business on Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/Its-Ma-Business-515394522192063

Chappaqua-Millwood Chamber of Commerce Compiling List of Merchant Response to COVID-19

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By Grace Bennett

With the Governor’s order to close area restaurants in effect, restaurants and other shops and service professionals impacted are looking for ideas and help on how to best ride out this period.

  Here in New Castle, those impacted found immediate support with an offer by the Chappaqua-Millwood Chamber of Commerce “to maintain and continuously update a list of new offers and services created by local merchants and businesses to help move our community forward; to make our lives here at this time just a little bit easier and less complicated and to bring us all together in the face of the COVID-19 crisis.”

“This is a uniquely uncertain time for all of us; one where we can find comfort, assurance and security in knowing that we are all in this as one community and able to come closer (albeit six feet apart!) to your friends, family and neighbors,” explained Dawn Danker-Rosen, president of the Chappaqua-Millwood Chamber of Commerce. “Every little bit of help and every act of kindness and compassion can make a difference for each of us individually to look ahead and see light and to find some sense of normalcy in this new and chaotic world.”

Rosen indicated that a list of the ways local merchants and businesses are here to help can be found at http://www.chappaquamillwood.org and that it will be regularly updated and distributed by email as well.

Grace Bennett is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the Inside Press, now in its 17th year.

Chappaqua-Millwood Chamber of Commerce: Supporting Area Commerce

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The Town of New Castle is comprised of a highly intelligent mix of creative, exciting and enterprising minds and individuals, families and partnerships with thriving businesses of all sizes and in all categories who are members of the Chappaqua-Millwood Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber supports this ever evolving business community, and aims to help them prosper.

Many Chappaqua-Millwood Chamber members have built and grown their businesses through effective networking, productive collaborations and professional skill-building with businesspeople residing or doing business in the Town of New Castle (Chappaqua-Millwood), as well as neighboring towns in Westchester County. The potential is here for anyone–and opportunities abound through active participation and membership in the Chappaqua-Millwood Chamber of Commerce.

The Chamber’s mission is to foster the success of any business that aims to serve Town of New Castle residents. To fulfill this mission, the Chappaqua-Millwood Chamber creates programs and initiatives that inform and educate, as well as support and facilitate connections within the town and the community.

Chamber members report that the skills, exposure and contacts gained through membership in the Chappaqua-Millwood Chamber have helped them start and expand new business ventures that may not have otherwise happened.

Among the many benefits of membership, the Chamber provides a host of member services which  build businesses including: a full listing and description of a member business (including its logo) on the Chamber website; member-to-member discounts, educational programs and seminars, key networking events; special business-community activities, events and parties; and business-town advocacy efforts.

The Chamber makes it a priority to promote greater awareness and enthusiasm for anyone who does business here; intensive efforts on behalf of any member business includes online, written and word-of-mouth communications between a member business and the community, as well as your business and the town government via social media, traditional media, grass roots marketing and special events.

In New Castle, active Chamber leadership and board are here to help. chappaquamillwood.org

Courtesy of the Chappaqua-Millwood Chamber of Commerce

Pleasantville Chamber of Commerce: Linking Community to Businesses

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Colorful awnings, decorative displays and windows adorned with local flyers: These are the storefronts that line downtown Pleasantville. Businesses spanning from gift shops to restaurants offer the village a variety of local options, many stores of which belong to the town’s business network, the Pleasantville Chamber of Commerce.

The chamber supports and promotes its 154 members who comprise an estimated 70 percent of the village’s businesses, according to Chamber President Bill Flooks. Information on the chamber’s website and social media pages, as well as its annual events and award ceremonies, helps make community members aware of what Pleasantville offers.

“We try to link the community with the businesses,” Flooks said. “That’s our goal, because that’s what you need for a successful business.”

On October 23, the chamber will honor businesses and service groups for their contributions to the village at the annual Chamber Appreciation Awards. Members also gather each April for the Business Person of the Year Event, a ceremony that celebrates the person who “consistently demonstrates business excellence, vision, innovation, leadership and community spirit,” according to their website. In addition to these events, the chamber holds six member meetings a year, which serve as “meet and greet” opportunities for local business owners and a way to communicate updates on community projects.

As apartments materialize on Washington Avenue and Memorial Plaza, the people who populate them will further the chamber’s goal of supporting local businesses, Flooks explained. The more people in the area, the more foot traffic.

“We’re trying to make Pleasantville a destination for people to come,” he said. “As we continue to grow, with what’s going on in the village, we will approach more businesses. And, hopefully more businesses will get involved when they realize that we can help promote them.”