White Plains

Recultivating the image of landscaping

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“I want not only to grow and cultivate a national landscape and hardscape company, but also to focus the next generation on what a landscape professional does and how it can help the environment as well as offer a profession,” says Valerio “Val” Morano Sagliocco, president and CEO of the Morano Group LLC.

Ensuring your biz survives you

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“Regardless of your level of wealth, you should have an estate plan,” says Bridget J. Crawford, who teaches federal income taxation; estate and gift taxation; and wills, trusts and estates at Pace University in White Plains, where she is the university distinguished professor of law at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law. If you own a business, or are thinking of starting one, she adds, that includes a plan of succession.

Gucci 2.0

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Once occupying first-floor real estate in The Westchester in White Plains, the store has relocated to the second floor in a more than 3,000-square-foot space that marries the modern to the traditional, the industrial to the romantic.

‘Hell,’ yes

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Singer/songwriter Erin McKeown took a break from “excavating” her life story to collaborate with playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes on the musical “Miss You Like Hell,” about the explosive but timely topic of immigration.