A facelift for Main Street.[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: A FACELIFT FOR MAIN STREET--The revitalization re·vi·tal·ize tr.v. re·vi·tal·ized, re·vi·tal·iz·ing, re·vi·tal·iz·es To impart new life or vigor to: plans to revitalize inner-city neighborhoods; tried to revitalize a flagging economy. of New Rochelle's central business district reached amilestone last month with the unveiling of newly restored facades on three historic buildings on Main Street. The detailed restoration of the historic facades of The Curtain Shop, Diamond Glass and 542 Main are another successful part of the New Rochelle New Rochelle (rōshĕl`), city (1990 pop. 67,625), Westchester co., SE N.Y., on Long Island Sound; settled by Huguenots 1688, inc. as a village 1858, as a city 1899. Business Improvement District's (BID) Model Development Block Program addressing investment on an important downtown block, Main Street between Division and Center Streets. Restoration of these historic facades was made possible with the help of grants from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, self-sustaining public corporation established in 1921 by the states of New York and New Jersey to administer the activities of the New York–New Jersey port area, which has a waterfront of c. , the Empire State Development Corporation and the City of New Rochelle and an innovative facade facade (fəsäd`), exterior face or wall of a building. The term implies ordered placement of its openings and other features and thus seems inapplicable to a wall without design. loan program developed by The Community Preservation Corporation (CPC (1) (Central Processing Complex) An IBM mainframe that has two or more central processors (CPs) that share memory. It is the collection of processors, memory and I/O subsystems manufactured with a single serial number, typically all contained in one cabinet. ) for the New Rochelle BID. Pictured left to right: Ralph DiBart, executive director of the New Rochelle Business Improvement District (BID); Marion L. MacQueen representing Empire State Development Corporation and The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey; New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson; Sadie McKeown, senior vice president of CPC; Robert Kaessinger, co-owner of The Curtain Shop; Marc M. Jerome, chairman of the New Rochelle BID; and Louis Vaccaro, co-owner of The Curtain Shop. |
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