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VISITING AND LIVING In Style
Whether your stay is temporary or permanent, the Ritz-Carlton, Westchester has you covered and wrapped in luxury.
The Ritz-Carlton, Westchester is a luxury
hotel in White Plains that is perfectly suited for corporate meetings and events of any size. Guests at The Ritz-Carlton, Westchester enjoy exquisite service, extraordinary meeting spaces, and luxe accommodations, in addition to the unparalleled convenience of the hotel’s downtown location. Only two blocks from the Metro-North train station and five minutes from the White Plains airport,
The Ritz-Carlton, Westchester is easily accessible to business travelers from near and afar, and is convenient to a wealth of restaurants, shopping, and entertainment choices. The White Plains location is in the heart of the Hudson Valley and only 32 minutes from Manhattan.
The hotel offers meeting facilities that can accommodate between two and 400 guests, and tailors the entire event experience to meet the needs of each client. According to Director of Meetings and Special Events Rebecca Rubenstein, what differentiates The Ritz-Carlton, Westchester from other meeting sites is the personalized attention guests receive. “Every business meeting is assigned a dedicated meeting and special event manager who oversees everything from room set- up, transportation, food and beverage service, and our state-of-the-art audio visual equipment,” says Rubenstein. The hotel’s richly decorated meeting accommodations include an Executive Boardroom, an elegant ballroom that holds up to 400 people,
a Business Center in the lobby, and a variety of meeting spaces of different styles and layouts.
But, The Ritz-Carlton is more than just a great site for corporate meetings—it’s also a world- class hotel offering superior accommodations and services to make business travel a pleasurable experience. There are fine-dining restaurants located in the hotel and 24-hour in-room dining services for travel-weary guests. The hotel features a spa, an indoor rooftop swimming pool, and a fully equipped fitness center, as well as gorgeous guestrooms that give corporate travelers a relaxing place to retreat when the day’s business is done.
A HEALTHY Outlook
White Plains Hospital, a leading healthcare
provider in Westchester County, is undergoing
a $100 million capital transformation project to enhance its facilities to be warm and welcoming. This major, two-phase renovation, “The Time Is Now,” will add 42,000 square feet and improve existing space to help meet the region’s demand for critical health services long into the future.
The existing lobby is being dismantled and redesigned to feature natural finishes, a 25-foot-
high glass wall to let in natural light, and a porte- cochere for patients being dropped off.
A new outpatient radiology center, currently being used as a temporary lobby, includes more reading rooms, family waiting rooms, and the ability to accommodate additional patients. Phase 1 also included a host of infrastructure changes, such as reworking the electrical system to increase the amount of power available for computerized medical records and other hi-tech innovations.
The generator has been moved to the roof; in the wake of Hurricane Sandy this has proven to be a wise plan, since basement generators are prone
to flooding.
Five state-of-the-art operating rooms are under construction. Dawn French, Vice President of Community Relations and Marketing, explains that, “When the existing operating rooms were first built, we did not have the technology that exists today. The new ORs are designed with the technological needs of today into tomorrow in mind.” The first new operating room opens later this year and
will be used for minimally invasive and robotic surgeries.
When the project is completed in 2015, it will feature a brand new patient tower composed entirely of private rooms.
Outside of the main hospital, the renovation and expansion planned for The Dickstein Cancer Treatment Center on Longview Avenue will double the size of the hospital’s cancer program.
This project coincides with the hospital’s 120th anniversary and comes on the heels of recent renovations to both the Emergency Room and
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After opening in White Plains, The Ritz-Carlton, Westchester changed the city’s skyline and became one of its distinctive landmarks.
Bernie Williams, former New York Yankee center fielder turned jazz guiltarist, was among the featured performers at this year’s Jazz Fest.
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