A Vision for White Plains’ Sustainable Future
A master-planned, mixed-use community on the corridor that built Westchester County.
701–777 Westchester Avenue, White Plains
Platinum Row | Renaissance White Plains is a master-planned, mixed-use community offering three distinct home types — market-rate rental apartment residences, age-restricted active adult residences, and for-sale townhomes — with 2± acres of publicly accessible open space, a 1 mile± publicly accessible walking trail, and a one-story neighborhood retail building on site.
Surrounded by Westchester County’s most significant employment corridor — from MasterCard’s global headquarters and the Morgan Stanley and PepsiCo campuses to leading-edge technology companies and state-of-the-art medical offices and facilities — residents of Platinum Row will enjoy a live, work, shop and dine lifestyle unlike anything else in the county.
Benefits & Alignment
Platinum Row aligns directly with White Plains’ One White Plains Comprehensive Plan, which builds on zoning reforms from 2016 to 2024 to address the Westchester Avenue corridor explicitly —
Incentivize office-to-residential conversions along Westchester Avenue; and
Permit residential uses in the Campus Office district;
Create affordable housing through adaptive reuse.
Platinum Row | Renaissance White Plains delivers on all three.
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Over the past ten years, numerous projects have revitalized the Platinum Mile, blending retail, recreation, healthcare and residential uses. White Plains is building on emerging successes, particularly in medical and life sciences innovation alongside new luxury residential communities.
The Medical and Life Science Momentum This stretch of the 1-287 has become a hub for healthcare and biosciences, attracting major institutions and startups that repurpose office space into advanced medical facilities, fostering job growth and community health services:
New York-Presbyterian Hospital (White Plains, opened 2025): Multi- specialty facility offering advanced adult and pediatric services in a new 225,000-square-foot center.
Westchester County Biosciences Accelerator (White Plains, opened 2025): Supporting life science startups with resources and funding, bolstering the region's innovation ecosystem.
Hospital for Special Surgery (White Plains, opened 2017): Orthopedic center providing specialized surgical and rehabilitative care in repurposed space.
MSK Westchester Cancer Center (Harrison, opened 2014): an outpatient cancer care facility providing cancer treatment and supportive services to residents of New York's Hudson Valley.
3030 Westchester Avenue (Purchase, opened 2016): A four-story medical office building with modern amenities, fully leased to WESTMED Medical Group, repurposing space for comprehensive healthcare services.
Simone Development/Montefiore (Harrison, opening TBD): A healthcare facility adding specialized medical uses to the mix, enhancing local access to care.
These initiatives highlight the Platinum Mile's evolution into a life sciences corridor, drawing on Westchester's strategic location and talent pool to support cutting-edge medical and biotech developments.
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Communities such as our proposed development will provide significant positive fiscal benefits to the City of White Plains, including boosted property tax revenues that stabilize and diversify the tax base, economic stimulus from resident spending, and the creation of permanent jobs in sectors like retail, services, and maintenance. These developments often have a minimal impact on the school student population due to their appeal to empty-nesters, seniors and downsizing households, resulting in fewer school- age children than traditional single-family housing.
By way of example, a nearby mixed use community upon completion demonstrates these advantages: independent analysis projected over $3 million in annual tax revenue to the school district alone, yielding a net surplus of approximately $1.2 million annually after accounting for additional students, particularly amid declining enrollment trends. Similar outcomes— enhanced revenues, job growth, and community investments—can be expected for Renaissance White Plains Gateway, supporting White Plains' long-term fiscal health.
Contemplated off-site and community improvements to the Renaissance Gateway redevelopment will include:
Upgrades to stormwater systems, sewer infrastructure, and site circulation.
Landscaped buffers, perimeter walls, pedestrian linkages, publicly accessible open space, and walking trails.
Public safety enhancements: improved emergency access, potential traffic improvements, and contributions to public services.
These represent millions of dollars in public benefit to the City of White Plains.
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The Platinum Mile's redevelopment aligns seamlessly with White Plains' One White Plains Comprehensive Plan, which promotes mixed-use strategies to revitalize underutilized areas such as the Platinum Mile. This vision builds on zoning reforms from 2016 to 2024, including amendments that encourage residential development and adaptive reuse to combat high office vacancies and foster economic resilience.
Central to this effort is the redevelopment of the Eastern Gateway to White Plains along the I-287 corridor, which advances sustainable land use by reducing commuter traffic. By way of example, our Renaissance White Plains Gateway redevelopment would reduce critical weekday commuter period trips by up to 30% when compared to prior office uses, while increasing housing supply and having minimal impact on the school student population. By integrating medical, recreational and residential elements, these initiatives create economic diversity, supporting a balanced, vibrant community that enhances quality of life and long-term fiscal stability.
2+/- acres of open space, pedestrian paths (publicly accessible), new internal roadways and a 300-foot buffer along the eastern edge integrate the site, enhancing access and insulating neighboring homes. The redevelopment would also reduce critical weekday commuter period trips by up to 30% compared to prior office uses—improving traffic conditions that the corridor’s current vacancy has done nothing to solve.
The 300-foot woodland buffer along the eastern edge is fully preserved—protecting the mature habitat that screens Colonial Road residences year-round. New plantings from a native species palette will significantly increase the total number of trees on site compared to the current campus, which is dominated by surface parking and impervious pavement. Sizable canopy trees anchor the central village green, tree-lined residential streets, and the Bryant Avenue publicly accessible open space.
Building A — 152 age-restricted active adult (55+) rental apartment residences
Building B — 114 market-rate rental apartment residences
Building C — 178 market-rate rental apartment residences
Building D — 222 market-rate rental apartment residences
47 for-sale townhomes
A one-story neighborhood retail building of up to 3,000 square feet, on site adjacent to Building D
Our Plan
Platinum Row | Renaissance White Plains is a master-planned, mixed-use community across the 55-acre campus at 701–777 Westchester Avenue.
The community also includes 2± acres of publicly accessible open space along Bryant Avenue with dedicated public parking, a 1 mile± publicly accessible multipurpose walking trail, a private dog park, and a 300-foot wooded buffer along the western edge.
The mix is 25% one-bedroom, 54% two-bedroom and 21% three-bedroom.
54 affordable residences — 8% of the 666 apartment rental residences — are included within the 514-residence market-rate rental program, meeting the deeper tier of the City’s Affordable Housing Requirements Program at 40% of area median income. All parking for residence and their guest are on site.
Approximately 35% of all residences in Platinum Row are age-restricted, for-sale, or affordable.
152 active adult residences for ages 55+ 47 for-sale townhomes 54 affordable residences
A corridor transformed
Vision, foresight, and political will can turn an underused crossroads into one of Westchester County’s most vibrant, connected, amenity-rich communities.
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The location makes sense
This site sits minutes from MasterCard’s global headquarters, major office parks, and the White Plains downtown core — supporting the jobs-housing balance the region urgently needs. White Plains has approximately 1.9 jobs for every working resident — an imbalance against the sustainable 1.0–1.5 range.
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The demand is real
A 2025 Regional Plan Association study found Westchester County faces a housing shortfall of approximately 21,000 units — projected to grow to between 44,000 and 77,000 units by 2040. RCLCO projects demand for 1,298 new rental apartments per year countywide. Competitive nearby properties average 94% occupancy, and active adult housing is essentially unavailable in this market. Westchester issued just 13 building permits per 1,000 residents between 2010 and 2020—compared to 28 in Orange County, New York and 65 in Hudson County, New Jersey, respectively.
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The window is closing
With the Platinum Mile’s prior residential conversions now delivered and absorbed, the 701–777 Westchester Avenue campus is the most impactful redevelopment opportunity on the corridor — and at 55 acres with 713 residences, the most transformative. No single-building conversion on the Platinum Mile can match its scale.