The Business Journals: May 10, 2021

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AWARD WINNING EDITORIAL

MAY 10, 2021 VOL. 57, No. 19

I NTRO D U CI N G TH E H U DSO N VALLE Y WE E K LY S EC TIO N

The SoundWaters ship takes passengers on a cruise of the Long Island Sound. A rendering of the proposed Harbor Center.

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Home in the valley

SoundWaters sets sail on $8M Harbor Center project

Major cable player Mediacom parlays smart thinking into growth

BY BRIDGET MCCUSKER bmccusker@westfairinc.com Many U.S. TV and internet service providers are based in the country’s big cities, but Mediacom Communications Corp., the

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fifth largest cable company in the U.S., has a long history in the Hudson Valley, where its headquarters in Orange County remain to this day. Many in the area, however, have never heard of

BY KEVIN ZIMMERMAN kzimmerman@westfairinc.com

Mediacom, likely because its customer base and cable systems are almost exclusively in the South and Midwest. The company serves mostly rural communities — a legacy that » MEDIACOM

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omentum, Belgian soccer player Simon Mignolet once said, is an amazing thing when it’s working in your favor — an opinion that the leadership at SoundWaters in Stamford certainly shares. While the Harbor Point

development has made plenty of headlines in recent years, SoundWaters — the 501(c)(3) nonprofit about 2½ miles away — is in the midst of making news as well. “Once this building and this park are open, Stamford Harbor is going to become a destination,” SoundWaters President Leigh Shemitz told the

Business Journal during a recent visit. The building in question is the 12,000-squarefoot Cohen SoundWaters Harbor Center, whose official groundbreaking will likely take place in early June; it is expected to open in mid-2022. Construction on the 12,100-square-foot build» ANCHORS AWEIGH

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