New York State Department of Labor
Division of Research and Statistics
120 Bloomingdale Road, Room 218
White Plains, NY 10605
914-997-8798
This briefing provides information on firm-specific hiring and layoff announcements in the Hudson Valley. The information in this report is derived from press releases, newspapers, business journals, newsletters and other public sources. It does not include all expansions and contractions in the region – only those for which public information has been obtained. An attempt is made to present only current information – events that have recently occurred or will occur in the near future.
Dutchess County
Nothing to report.
Orange County
Clemson Bros. Brewery is expanding its operation by buying the Gilded Otter in New Paltz, in addition to building a Pine Island Clemson Bros. facility. The expansion will allow them to triple their overall brewing capacity by the end of 2019. Clemson Bros. plans to retain the Gilded Otter’s staff while expanding the workforce with 10 new employees.
The Botanist, a medical marijuana store, recently opened for business in the Town of Wallkill. The new marijuana dispensary is the second store to open in Orange County and is one of 40 medical marijuana dispensaries allowed across the state. Acreage Holdings, parent company to The Botanist, also owns another store in Buffalo. No job numbers were announced.
The Golden Corral restaurant on Route 211 in the Town of Wallkill will reopen next month under new ownership. BME Group, the new franchisee, is almost done renovating the restaurant and plans to offer all previous employees the chance to reapply for their old jobs. The previous owners had closed the restaurant on January 10, 2019 without warning to the employees.
Putnam County
Nothing to report.
Rockland County
Valley Agriceuticals, a cannabis company, doing business as Remedy NY, plans to open a medical marijuana dispensary on Route 304 in Bardonia. This dispensary will be Rockland’s first. It is one of 10 companies that is licensed to grow and sell medical marijuana. Valley Agriceuticals plans open three other dispensaries in Suffolk, Kings and Oneida counties. No job numbers were announced.
Sullivan County
Dream Hotel Group recently announced plans to open its second U.S. location of its new lifestyle brand, Unscripted Hotels, in the Catskill Mountains in early 2020. The new hotel will be located within the new Shops at White Lake complex in Bethel. Dream Hotel is also developing The Chatwal Lodge, a luxury resort located on the Chapin Estates in Bethel. No job numbers were announced.
Ulster County
NCG Cinemas, the new movie theater that is scheduled to open in the spring in the former Regal Cinemas location, will host job fairs on March 29 and March 30 at the mall. Open interviews will be held in the mall’s food court for various positions, including box office and concession employees, ushers, maintenance/janitorial staff and assistant managers. Applications are available online at www.NCGmovies.com .
Westchester County
Danone North America, the U.S. arm of the French food giant Danone, recently moved its headquarters from Greenburgh to a newly-built 80,000 sq. ft. office space on the top floors of the former Fortunoff store in White Plains. No job numbers were announced.
Homesence, the off-price home furnishing and décor store, is set to open a new location in the Yonkers Gateway Center on Central Park Avenue. The new store, which is scheduled to open on March 28, 2019, will occupy a 27,128 sq. ft. portion of the former Pathmark supermarket that was closed in 2015. The remaining 20,856 sq. ft. portion will house a new Marshalls store, a discount department store. Homesence and Marshalls are owned by TJX Companies. The date for the Marshalls store opening has not yet been announced. No job numbers were reported for either stores.
Life Time Athletic is scheduled to open a new facility on February 8, 2019 at Chappaqua Crossing (formerly the old Readers’ Digest campus). In addition to cardio and weights, Life Time’s new facility on North Bedford will have a salon and spa, studios for group fitness, cycling, yoga and Pilates, a steam room and sauna, a restaurant and children’s program. The new facility is expected to create nearly 200 full and part-time jobs.
Rye Brook-based RPW Group has teamed up with national apartment developer NRP Group on a project that would add 303 apartments to 1133 Westchester Avenue, a signature 620,000 sq. ft. office building along the Interstate 287 corridor in White Plains, otherwise known as the Platinum Mile. Plans call for three apartment buildings, each five stories, on the North side of the property, facing county-owned Maple Moor Golf Course. The new complex would be branded as “The Flats at Westchester.” The buildings would include a mix of 178 one-bedroom apartments, 115 two-bedroom and 10 three-bedroom apartments. 10 percent of the apartments would allocated for affordable housing. Amenities will include a fitness and business center, pool, spa, and 12,000 square feet of outdoor recreational space that would connect to a walking path around the site. No job numbers were announced.
Simone Development Co’s. plan to convert an office building to a pediatric outpatient center for Montefiore Medical Center was approved for a financial tax break. The Westchester IDA recently approved an incentive for the $61 million project that includes $1.33 million in sales tax exemptions and $419,755 in mortgage tax exemptions. It is estimated that the project will create about 100 temporary construction jobs and 250 permanent health care jobs.
Dutchess County
St. Mary’s Elementary School in Wappingers Falls will close at the end of the school year. The catholic school, a pre-K to eight grade school, had been in operation for more than 125 years. The school is one of seven New York Catholic Elementary schools slated for closure at the end of the 2018-2019 academic year. The school’s website listed its workforce at about 30 employees.
Orange County
Nothing to report.
Putnam County
Nothing to report.
Rockland County
Charlotte Russe Holdings Corp., which operates Charlotte Russe, a fashion retailer for young women, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company announced plans to close 94 stores, including the stores at Rockland Plaza in Nanuet and the Jefferson Valley Mall in Yorktown Heights. The Charlotte Russe stores at the Palisades Center in West Nyack and at the Galleria mall in White Plains were not on the list of stores slated for closure.
Sullivan County
Nothing to report.
Ulster County
Empire Resorts, the parent company of Monticello Casino and Raceway, announced plans to close its electronic gaming operations at the track on or about April 23, 2019. The company filed a WARN notice with the NYS Dept. of Labor on January 23, 2019 in anticipation of a mass layoff that could potentially affect approximately 200 employees. Forty employees will remain at the raceway, while the operation’s other 160 employees will be offered jobs at nearby Resorts World Catskills Casino, which is also owned by Empire Resorts, or receive severance packages. While the harness racing track will stay open for now, Empire Resorts has not made any guarantees about its future. Empire made the decision to cease its video gaming operations and food and beverage service at the track in Monticello in order to improve revenue performance at its nearby Resorts World Catskills property.
Westchester County
Payless ShoeSource Inc. has recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and plans to close all its 2,500 North American stores and its retail operations in Puerto Rico. Payless has several stores in the Hudson Valley Region, including locations in Mount Vernon, Nanuet, Newburgh, New Rochelle, Poughkeepsie, White Plains, Yonkers and Yorktown Heights. The store closings will begin at the end of March 2019, although several stores will remain open through the end of May 2019, as it conducts liquidation sales in the U.S. and Canada. The company is also shuttering its e-commerce operations. Payless’ retail operations outside of North America, including its company owned-stores in Latin America, are separate entities and are not included in the Chapter 11 filing. The Topeka, Kansas-based discount shoe retailer had previously filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2017 and closed 673 stores.
Petland Discounts, a privately-owned chain of pet stores, announced plans to close all the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut stores. The closing of the New York stores will affect 367 employees, including those at the New Rochelle store on North Avenue. The layoffs will occur on May 18, 2019.
POP Displays USA L.L.C., a Yonkers-based point-of-purchase displays manufacturer, filed a WARN notice with the NYS Department of Labor on March 25, 2019 in anticipation of a mass layoff. The company plans to lay off 388 employees at its facility on Tuckahoe Road in Yonkers. The layoffs will begin on June 30, 2019 and continue through July 13, 2019. POP Displays is relocating its manufacturing plant to Fulton County, Georgia where it will invest $7.9 million in a new manufacturing and distribution facility and create 280 new jobs. The company’s corporate headquarters will remain in Westchester, moving from Yonkers to a 25,523 sq. ft. office space in Rye Brook.
Nothing to report.
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