White Plains opens public hearing on District Galleria rezoning and draft environmental impact statement

The White Plains Common Council opened a concurrent public hearing Jan. 6 on a petition to rezone the former Galleria property and on the project's draft environmental impact statement.

The hearing matters because the rezoning would create a new “TD‑2” transit development district and enable a developer proposal the project team described as a roughly $2.5 billion, mixed‑use redevelopment that could include about 3,200 residential units, roughly 3,400 public parking spaces and significant retail and office space. The council and city staff said the hearing will remain open and written comments will be accepted before the council closes the record and the applicant prepares a final EIS.

Planning Commissioner Christopher Gomez told the council that the rezoning process began after the applicant filed a petition in…