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Riverkeeper offices grow with staff, membership

Westchester County Business Journal, Aug 08, 2005 by Philippidis, Alex

Environmental group Riverkeeper Inc. says it is finally able to accommodate its current staff, as well as a few new employees it expects to add after moving to larger offices in Tarrytown.

Riverkeeper has completed its move to 6,200 square feet within an office campus on Route 9 (828 South Broadway) owned by Diamond Properties of Valhalla. Riverkeeper is occupying space previously leased by the American Booksellers Association, which moved about a mile northeast to Route 119 (200 White Plains Road).

"In the next two to five years we may add another five more people. We're in a pretty good spot now because we'll have the space for them in a setting that isn't a typical corporate park. its more of a rural setting," said Alex Matthiessen, Riverkeeper's executive director.

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Actually the 10.2-acre campus is more of an estate totaling 50,000 square feet in three buildings - a 35,000-square-foot office building, a 13,000-square-foot mansion built circa 1879 and restored in 1990 for $3 million; and a 6,000-square-foot carriage house.

Matthiessen said Riverkeeper's new space is more than double the size of its previous rural setting, a converted barn on Route 9D in Garrison. As Riverkeeper's staff doubled over the past five years to its current 22-person work force, the group outgrew the barn and had to use an office trailer for the past three years, he said.

That staff has been kept busy through Riverkeeper's nearly four-year battle with Entergy Nuclear Northeast to shut down its Indian Point nuclear power plants in Buchanan; its advocacy for the Hudson River and New York City's watershed; as well as a study in progress of the economic as well as environmental effects of sprawl development.

Riverkeeper's membership has grown along with its staff size from 1,000 to 6,000 members over the past five years.

The new office also gives Riverkeeper the advantage of a home base in the same campus as Waterkeeper Alliance Inc., whose president Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is also Riverkeeper's chief prosecuting attorney, as well as a senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Riverkeeper operates on a $3 million annual budget, up from $1.2 million in 2000.

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Riverkeeper offices grow with staff, membership

Westchester County Business Journal, Aug 08, 2005 by Philippidis, Alex

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