Westchester County Business Journal Rail-Oriented Redevelopment Eyed in Harrison
Rail-Oriented Redevelopment Eyed in Harrison
Metro-North Railroad and Harrison town and village officials this summer will start preliminary work for a mixed-use project on which a private developer could break ground in 2010 near the commuter rail station downtown.
The focus of Metro-North’s second transit-oriented development in partnership with a local municipality is a 3.3-acre stretch of commuter parking lots on Halstead Avenue owned by the railroad. Branded “It’s Happening in Harrison” by rail officials, the project, on the south side of the Metro-North tracks, would redevelop the lots and more than double downtown public parking with a 596-car parking garage.
As designed by Scarsdale architect Richard Henry Behr, the garden-roofed garage will be faced on two sides with a four-story building with 32 apartments on the top three floors and 25,000 square feet of ground-floor retail stores and restaurants.
The complex also will include public esplanades and possibly a new municipal building at the corner of Harrison and Halstead avenues. Harrison Supervisor/Mayor Joan Walsh, though, said she prefers to give a developer the option to build more retail space at that corner. “From everything that I hear on all sides, that’s the most important corner in town. That’s the most valuable part of the property,” she said.
One year ago, when the joint project was unveiled for public comment, Walsh described “an endless stream” of developers drawn to her municipal office by the proposed redevelopment. In the last two to three months, developers haven’t been heard from, she said last week. Yet officials think that “because it’s such an interesting proposal,” developers will respond to the request for proposals that Metro-North expects to have ready in about six months, she said.
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