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Westchester County’s September unemployment rate rose 1.5 percent from last year, according to the state Labor Department, while the county’s reliably strong job sector, information technology, showed signs it too is not immune to the global economic malaise.
In a sign of the economic times, a major Westchester concrete supplier for commercial and residential developments last week filed for protection from creditors in U.S. Bankruptcy Court.
Greenwich Hospital of Connecticut recently celebrated the opening of its new satellite administrative office across state lines at 900 King St. in Rye Brook.
Officials at ENT and Allergy Associates L.L.P. in Tarrytown recently announced the specialty medical group’s merger with North Jersey Ear, Nose, Throat & Hearing Center.
Acadia Realty Trust, a real estate investment trust based in White Plains, has paid $78 million for the 640,000-square-foot Cortlandt Towne Center in the town of Cortlandt, where the bankruptcies of two retail tenants have caused a 10 percent drop in occupancy.