Westchester County Biosciences Accelerator (WCBA) has announced the third cohort of emerging biosciences ventures invited to join the annual program. Twelve ventures will engage in the 6 month-long program that features entrepreneurship education, coaching and mentoring, to develop fundable business plans and expand the Biosciences community in Westchester. Ventures are supported by an experienced entrepreneur coach and receive customized business networking introductions to business professionals to help advance their early-stage ventures. The program will culminate in a pitch day scheduled for Thursday, May 12, 2022. The 2022 WCBA cohort participants and ventures include: Charles Mobbs (Mount Sinai); Charles Silvestro (PNI Therapeutics); Claudia […]

BCW Member United Way of Westchester and Putnam announced this week it would administer $1.5 million in grants to local nonprofits serving Westchester County through the Emergency Food and Shelter Program. “Housing and food insecurity still plague many residents in Westchester County,” said United Way President and CEO Tom Gabriel. “In response, the United Way is honored to announce the availability of $1.5 million in Emergency Food and Shelter funding to help our nonprofit partners address the basic human needs of hundreds of thousands of families in our community.” United Way of Westchester and Putnam is accepting applications for Phase […]

Westchester Community College and Marx Realty this week finalized a 10-year lease for WCC to move into 40,000 square feet of space on the third floor of the former Sears store at Cross County Center in Yonkers.  WCC, which is an existing tenant at the center, plans to offer additional degree and certification programs through its expanded presence at the shopping center. Target is taking the lower floors of the building under a 40-year lease for 130,000 square feet of space. The Cross County location will be Target’s first store in Yonkers and plans call for it to open later […]

In a major development for Westchester County’s health care sector, Summit Health, the region’s premier integrated network of urgent, primary and specialty care, announced this week a partnership with BCW Member Westmed Medical Group, a multispecialty medical practice with locations in Westchester County, Fairfield County and New Jersey. With the addition of Westmed Medical Group and its New Jersey Urology (NJU) practice, Summit Health now includes more than 2,500 providers, 12,000 employees, and over 340 locations in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Central Oregon. Westmed will initially continue to operate under their current brands as “A Summit Health […]

Congratulations to Zubeen Shroff who has been appointed Chair of the Board of Directors the Westchester County Health Care Corporation (WCHCC). The WCHCC operates the WMCHealth, a network consisting of 10 hospitals, skilled nursing facilities and provider practices in New York State’s Hudson Valley region. Shroff succeeds Mitchell Hochberg, now 1st Vice Chair, whose tenure as Chair reached term limits after three consecutive terms in the position. The appointments of Shroff and Hochberg as Chair and 1st Vice Chair, respectively, were effective January 1, 2022. “WMCHealth is a dynamic organization that is both a healthcare resource and economic engine for […]

The Business Council of Westchester has joined with more than 50 business leaders and legal experts statewide in opposition to the state’s proposed antitrust legislation. In a letter to Governor Hochul and New York State Legislators, the group outlined the potential damage New York City and New York State that would result from enacting antitrust legislation currently pending in the state Legislature (S.933A/A.1812A). “This legislation purports to curb the excesses of the largest companies, particularly ‘big tech,’ but would instead create a new level of risk, cost, and potential liability for all New York state businesses, large and small. It would diverge […]