Builder and developer Leonard Kohl cuts a familiar figure in the Hudson Valley, appearing before planning boards from Westchester to Orange counties for close to five decades. A new quarter-million-square-foot office park in Congers indicates the octogenarian is not through yet.
Before most of his younger competition was out of high school, Kohl was buying land and putting up office space, rental apartments and industrial buildings throughout the region.
Although Kohl maintained an office for more than four decades in Rockland County, each night he returned to his New Jersey home, the one he and his wife started out in as newlyweds.
When the time came for Kohl to start taking life a bit easier, he closed his offices in Rockland, continuing to work in a building he owned closer to his Teaneck home. As company chairman, Leonard Kohl has kept Kohl Partners bustling, recently building 176 rental apartments on Yonkers’ Main Street and renovating the old trolley barn near its waterfront, converting it into 30 studios and stores.
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