The Old Lord & Taylor in Eastchester Isn't Becoming a Shopping Center. It's Becoming a Hospital With a Bakery.

Drive past 750 White Plains Road this summer and ask most people what's happening there. They'll tell you Equinox is moving in, or that a bakery chain with a loyal Northeast following finally picked Westchester. Both are true. Neither is the real story.

The real story is square footage, and it points somewhere nobody's blog post has pointed yet: the single biggest tenant in that building isn't a gym, a restaurant, or a home goods store. It's White Plains Hospital, and its outpatient practice now occupies more of the old Lord & Taylor than every retail lease combined.

The Anchor Isn't a Store

White Plains Hospital Physician Associates of Scarsdale leases 74,500 square feet, more than a third of the property's 200,473 total square feet. Obstetrics & Gynecology and Orthopedics were the first specialties to open, with the hospital targeting full operation of the space by last fall and eventually planning to house around 40 providers across imaging, diagnostics, and multiple specialties.

Line that up against the retail tenants and the gap is stark:

A property marketing site for the building puts the hospital's expected daily visitor count at roughly 1,200 people. That's not a shopping center number. That's a medical campus number, dressed up with a gym membership and a pastry case.

Why Equinox Built Itself a Second Front Door

The gym isn't hiding this dynamic. It's designed around it.

When Equinox's relocation from its longtime spot at 800 White Plains Road came before the Eastchester Planning Board, the club's representative was specific about circulation: the health club will occupy a duplex space with its own entrance on the building's east side, and members will use a parking lot that doesn't face White Plains Road at all. In plain terms, Equinox members won't be crossing paths with hospital patients or retail shoppers on the way in. That's not a coincidence in a building where a third of the square footage is a medical practice generating over a thousand visits a day. When one tenant brings that much daily traffic, the tenants around it start building separate doors.

The Deal Terms Tatte and Cava Signed Say a Lot

Tatte Bakery & Café's lease at 750 White Plains Road, brokered this past June, marks the chain's first location anywhere in Westchester County. Cava is joining it in the same building. Both are exactly the kind of names that usually show up as evening dining destinations with a glass of wine on a patio somewhere.

Neither is doing that here. Town filings note that neither restaurant will serve alcohol, and neither is proposing outdoor seating. For two brands known elsewhere for leisurely bowls and pastry-case lingering, that's a deliberate choice, and it tracks with who's actually walking through that building every day: hospital patients between appointments, gym members before or after a workout, parents picking up a coffee on the way to Pottery Barn Kids. This isn't being built as a place to sit for two hours. It's being built for people who are already there for something else and need food fast.

An Eastchester Address With a Scarsdale Zip Code

Here's a detail that trips up even longtime locals: 750 White Plains Road falls under the Town of Eastchester's planning board, yet coverage of the sale referred to the property as sitting in "Eastchester (Scarsdale)," a nod to the fact that the address carries zip code 10583, the same one used for Scarsdale. It's one of those only-in-Westchester quirks where the postal designation and the municipal line don't quite match. If you've ever mentioned this building to someone and had them say "wait, isn't that Scarsdale," now you know why you were both a little right.

The property itself sits on the Eastchester/Scarsdale border, on roughly 11 acres with around 650 surrounding parking spaces. It changed hands this spring in a sale reportedly valued at $80 million, with the building 64% leased at the time, according to a report from Yonkers Times. The same coverage cited average household incomes of $227,000 and home values around $811,000 within three miles of the property, numbers that explain why a national fitness brand, a bakery chain making its Westchester debut, and Williams Sonoma all found their way to the same address within a mile or so of Eastchester's own residential streets.

What Changes for People Who Already Live Here

The hospital wing has effectively been running for close to a year now. The retail side is moving on a different clock. Tatte's lease only became public this June. Cava and Equinox have been working through town site plan review since 2025, with the board's most recent scheduled review session set for this past June. In practice, that means the medical building has been generating its full share of daily traffic for months, while the storefronts you'll actually walk into are still catching up.

A few things worth knowing if this corner of Route 22 is part of your regular routine:

• Expect the parking lot facing White Plains Road to feel busier even before every storefront opens, since the hospital's patient volume is already at full pace.
• Equinox's relocation from 800 White Plains Road means that address will eventually sit empty, worth watching if you're curious what replaces it.
• Two sizable spaces, a 12,535 square foot unit and a 15,118 square foot space with an attached 5,000 square foot outdoor patio, remain available as of this summer, so the building's final shape isn't locked in yet.
• If you time a visit for a mid-morning coffee run, you're likely sharing the lot with patients heading into orthopedics or OB/GYN appointments, not just fellow shoppers.

None of this is dramatic. It's the kind of quiet shift that happens when a half-vacant department store becomes something closer to a small medical campus with a few familiar retail names wrapped around it. The building will look, from the road, like a shopping center finally coming back to life. What's actually filling most of it is a hospital.

I've watched a lot of corners of this town change shape over 25 years, and the ones that stick are usually the ones nobody wrote a press release about. This is one of them. If you're curious how a project like this tends to ripple into the surrounding streets, or you just want to talk through what else is shifting in Eastchester this year, reach out. I'm always glad to compare notes with a neighbor.

If you're weighing what any of this means for your own home or your next move in Eastchester, April Helene Monaco is a phone call away for a straightforward conversation, no pressure, just local knowledge.