Rockland Economic Development Corp., which has offices at 1 Blue Hill Plaza, is moving — but not very far.

Effective Monday, the agency’s new address will be 2 Blue Hill Plaza, 3rd Floor, P.O. Box 1575, Pearl River, NY 10965. The telephone number remains the same: 845-735-7040.

On the web, go to www.redc.org.

Lexington Center for Recovery, a provider of alcohol and substance abuse treatment in the Hudson Valley, has moved its headquarters to 116 Radio Circle in Mount Kisco. The center, which leased 5,500 square feet in the building, has treated 30,000 people in its 25-year history through programs in Westchester and Dutchess counties.

Maxx Properties, an apartment owner and manager, has sold its office building in Mamaroneck and moved to new offices in Harrison. Maxx Properties sold its 32,000-square-foot office building at 875 Mamaroneck Ave. to KOSL Building Corp. The company has leased the fifth floor at 600 Mamaroneck Ave. in Harrison. It occupies 24,000 square feet at the Saxon Woods Corporate Park. Eric S. Goldschmidt, a partner at Scarsdale-based Goldschmidt & Associates, who helped Maxx sell their building and find new space, said the company consolidated from two floors into a single floor to more efficiently operate its corporate headquarters. Maxx Properties specializes in garden apartment complexes.

A local subsidiary of a Swiss corporation will set up operations at The Landmark at Eastview, aided by a tax break from the Westchester County Industrial Development Agency.

Micro-Macinazione USA Inc. specializes in producing finely-ground ingredients for pharmaceutical companies. The drug companies use the ingedients to produce drugs that are used in clinical trials.
Karl Edelman of Katonah, general manager of the local company, said drug companies rely on small businesses like Micro-Macinazione USA, since it’s inefficient to set up large manufacturing operations to produce the small amounts of pills, powders and sprays needed in clinical trials.
“We’re just one small part of the entire process,� he said.

Edelman said it will take up to 10 months to set up shop at The Landmark, a biotech corporate park. The company will employ 10 people at the start, a figure that could double in two years, he said.
The county IDA approved a $100,000 sale tax exemption for the business. Construction costs are estimated at $5 million.

Feintool Group of Lyss, Switzerland, said yesterday that it will close its American Feintool plant in White Plains and move operations to Cincinnati, Ohio, eliminating about 20 jobs.

Part of the work force will be moved to Cincinnati, while severance benefits will be offered to the rest, the company said. The White Plains plant, more than 30 years old, no longer has the space to accommodate needed improvements, the company said.

Officials in White Plains could not be reached for comment. The plant produces precision parts with cutting surfaces free of torn or chipped edges. The shutdown is planned in the 2007-2008 fiscal year.
Feintool also said it will close a plastics composite components factory in Thailand at the end of this year because it wasn’t drawing enough regional orders.

The Westchester Medical Group has moved its endocrinology office from 222 Westchester Ave. to 210 Westchester Ave. to serve a growing number of diabetes patients. Patients of Dr. David Bloomgarden, Dr. Jonathan Weinstein, Dr. Kenneth Weiser, family nurse practitioner Mary Joan Vaccaro-Olko and registered dietician Elizabeth DeRobertis can reach them at (914) 684-0202. The White Plains-based Westchester Medical Group is a physician-owned and managed group practice with more than 120 doctors.

CVS Pharmacy will move into the new mixed-use building at 7 Popham Road in Scarsdale, adjacent to the Metro North train station, this month. The 15,000-square-foot retail space will replace the smaller store at 90 Garth Road in Scarsdale.
By the end of the year, CVS will move into the 16,000-square-foot space at 24 Mamaroneck Ave. in White Plains, formerly occupied by Woolworth’s and Foot Locker.

The moves were announced by the broker, Pam Bren Goldschmidt of Goldschmidt and Associates in Scarsdale.

Kindred Partners LLC, an executive recruiting firm that specializes in high-growth technology companies, is moving from Ossining to 100 S. Bedford Road in Mount Kisco, according to Austin Corporate Properties, which represented the company in the real estate deal. Kindred Partners will occupy 6,000 square feet of the 96,000-square-foot building, which is located in the Mount Kisco Corporate Center on Route 172.

Gilman Ciocia, a provider of tax and financial planning services based in Poughkeepsie, has moved its New City operations from Maple Avenue to the Windsor Building at 20 Squadron Blvd. near the intersection of Route 304. Company officials said the move to a larger, 2,300-square-foot space would accommodate its growing client base in Rockland County by providing space for new financial planners and a large conference room for whole-family and estate planning.

Employees of Weekly Reader Publishing yesterday finished their move from Stamford, Conn. into the Reader’s Digest Association headquarters in Chappaqua. Ripplewood Holdings LLC, the investment group that’s leading the acquisition of the Digest, owns WRC Media Inc., the Weekly Reader’s parent company. The company said it would fold WRC into the Digest’s operation. About 100 employees were involved in the move. The WRC’s education businesses, including Weekly Reader magazines, books and custom publishing, Gareth Stevens, World Almanac Education Library Services, Facts on File News Service and WRC’s licensing business, will comprise the Weekly Reader Publishing Group.

Econnergy Energy Co. Inc. will begin moving its headquarters to Montebello next month.

The energy marketer has signed a seven-year lease to occupy 31,000 square feet at 400 Rella Blvd. The company, currently at 286 N. Main St. in Spring Valley, needed larger offices as it plans to expand its business outside its current seven-state region, Director of Communications Darlene Hyde said.

It expects its staff of 110 will be settled in around Sept. 1.

Their new landlord is Mack-Cali Realty Corp.

Econnergy had been based in Spring Valley for 10 years.

By the year 2020, 450 of every 1,000 people will be senior citizens and every one of those older folks will need a place to live, an executive with a construction and development company told an audience in Tarrytown this morning.

The Hudson Valley is getting gray even faster than that, Michael J. DiTullo, executive vice president of Hillside Communities in Newburgh, said. About 500,000 of the 2.2 million residents of the region are 55 or older, he said.

DiTullo said that while many New Yorkers mark their retirement by moving to warm-weather places, many stay in the Northeast, moving to New Jersey, Connecticut of Pennsylvania because they can get housing easier there than they can in New York.

That trend is one of many that speakers at a meeting on eldercare discussed in an attempt to cast light on the economic and social problems and opportunities presented by the aging of the American population.

DiTullo said he believes many people whose children have grown up and moved out remain in their large homes because of a lack of smaller homes in the area. If the region had more smaller homes so that these folks could “downsize� that would free up their houses for young homebuyers, he said.

Meredith Oppenheim, who runs Oppenheim Real Estate Ventures LLP in Manhattan, said the government in Mexico is working to make it easier and safer for American retirees to move to that country. The government and developers see an economic opportunity in the influx of older Americans crossing the border in pursuit of a more affordable place to live.

Many health-care providers in Mexico are seeking partnerships with U.S. health-care institutions in order to establish credibility, said Oppenheim, who won a Congressional Medal of Honor for writing a cookbook for seniors donating all the proceeds to charity.

She said that though Americans who make the move surrender certain benefits, it can still be more affordable.

“It’s not a panacea,� she said of moving to Mexico. “It’s just what some people are seeking as an alternative.�

Provident Bank, Elant Inc. — which is a Goshen-based provider of services for senior citizens — and other sponsors were behind the summit. The audience of more than 100 included government officials, businesspeople, educators and experts on aging.

MMS — A Medical Supply Co. reports it has moved its East Division executive offices, formerly in Pelham Manor, to 145 Huguenot St. in New Rochelle, where the company employs about 55 people.

Separately, MMS announced it agreed to a five-year renewal of a contract with Continuum Health Partners Inc., a nonprofit operator of five New York City hospitals. The $200 million pact covers medical supplies and equipment, said MMS, which is based in Earth City, Mo.