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DECEMBER 3, 2018 | VOL. 54, No. 49

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Online grocery shopping? Americans say ‘I’d rather go to the store’ BY BOB ROZYCKI bobr@westfairinc.com

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hen it comes to shopping online or shopping in person at a grocery store, U.S. consumers overwhelmingly say they’d rather eyeball their food personally and thump their own cantaloupes, according to a survey by Vixxo, a facility management company in Scottsdale, Arizona. After asking 1,260 American grocery shoppers their preferences, Vixxo found that an overwhelming 87 percent prefer to shop in person. And age had nothing to do with this as nearly all baby boomers — 96 percent — and a massive amount of millennials — 81 percent — said that they prefer going to the store. Statistics showing the number of online vs. in-store shoppers are hard to come by. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the nation’s 118,812 traditional food stores sold $648 billion of retail food and nonfood products in 2016. As for online purchases, according to a survey earlier this year by advisory firm Brick Meets Click, the online share of total grocery shopping in 2018 was expected to be 5.5 percent. But for those who wish to continue pushing a cart rather than just choosing items » SHOPPING

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TWB Loan Decision Top 5 Banner Ad 6” w x 1.5” h Rendering of the proposed retail space at City8-15-18 Square. View is from the corner of Main Street and Lexington Avenue.

Ginsburg brings muchanticipated ‘City Square’ plan to White Plains officials

BY RYAN DEFFENBAUGH rdeffenbaugh@westfairinc.com

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hite Plains city officials got their first look at the official plans for City Square, developer Martin Ginsburg’s effort to remake the Westchester Financial Center office complex in the city’s downtown. The plans call for creating a unified block within Main Street, South Lexington

Avenue, Martine Avenue and Bank Street with shops, restaurants, offices and apartments. As told to the Common Council in a special hearing Nov. 26, the developer would act on that vision by adding 188 rental apartments and just under 20,000 square feet of new retail space to the 15- and 14-story office towers on the site. The Valhalla-based Ginsburg Development Cos. (GDC) teamed up with Robert Martin Co. in April on an $83 million deal to

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acquire the center’s two office buildings, which total about 570,000 square feet on Main Street and Martine Avenue. GDC has since bought Robert Martin’s interest in the project, a GDC spokesperson said. GDC has since been formulating plans to turn the 1980s office towers into the type of live-work campus Ginsburg described following the purchase. The plans also incorporate 34 S. Lexington, a 124-unit apartment building » CITY SQUARE

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