For seventeen years, Enrico's Pastry Shop anchored a storefront near the Hartsdale Metro-North station. In late 2024, it announced it was closing for good, and Mikado Sushi, a small Manhattan-based chain with locations in Chelsea and the Financial District, signed on to take the space. The plan was to open by spring 2025.
Here's the part a lot of people driving past 214 E. Hartsdale Avenue don't realize: as of the town's most recent construction update this July, Mikado still hadn't opened. Construction is finished. The restaurant is sitting there, built out, waiting on final building and electrical inspections. That's more than a year past its original target.
The wait matters more than it might sound, because of what used to be in that same storefront before Enrico's ever moved in. For 38 years, it was Azuma Sushi, a Japanese restaurant that closed in 2021. Hartsdale's downtown strip has now gone the better part of five years without a sushi restaurant of its own, first through Azuma's closing, then through Enrico's run, and now through Mikado's stalled opening. If you've been wondering why that sign has been up for over a year with the lights off, that's why.
It's a useful reminder that a lot of what looks like a wave of new businesses in Greenburgh right now is really two different things happening at once: a real, confirmed list of places that are open and worth using, and a second list of places still stuck behind permits and inspections. Knowing which is which is the difference between planning a Friday night around a restaurant that exists and one that's still just a sign in a window.
What's Actually Open Right Now
Central Avenue and the Four Corners have had a genuinely busy stretch. Golden Mirage, a Chinese restaurant at 285 N. Central Avenue, held its soft opening on April 14, 2026, followed by a grand opening a week later. An Italian restaurant, backed by a family with roots in a longtime New York City restaurant, opened at the Four Corners in late 2024 and has since been folded into the town's list of confirmed new arrivals as Il Sorrentino. Inkaterra Market, the Korean hot pot chain K-Pot, and the frozen dessert spot Gotham Freeze have all opened along Central Avenue over the past year, alongside a new Apple Bank branch. In Elmsford, a few minutes down Saw Mill River Road, Invito Restaurant has been serving a modern Mexican menu, built out by two longtime Westchester residents who wanted space to do something bigger than a typical strip-mall storefront.
None of these are headline-grabbing openings on their own. Taken together, they mean a resident can now run an entire errand list without leaving a two-mile stretch of road.
What's Still Behind Construction Paper
This is the list worth knowing before you plan around it. As of the town's most recent building department update, all of the following are real, funded, under construction, and not yet serving customers:
- Pizza Zoo, 1 S. Central Avenue: construction complete, waiting on a final building inspection.
- Hartsbury Deli, Hartsdale: still mid-construction, with inspections and outside approvals still pending.
- Mikado Sushi, 214 E. Hartsdale Avenue: construction complete, waiting on final building and electrical inspections.
- Sprouts Farmers Market, near 387 N. Central Avenue: construction underway, inspections in progress, with the town's website pointing to a hoped-for opening around September 4.
- Best Buy, 389 N. Central Avenue: relocating from its former site into the old Christmas tree store location, construction underway.
Matanzas Cuban Cafe, at 17 E. Hartsdale Avenue, sits in a different category entirely. It's an existing, operating restaurant that just won Planning Board approval to expand, which is arguably a better signal than a new opening: an established business betting on more space rather than a fresh storefront betting on the neighborhood for the first time.
Two Farmers Markets Where There Used to Be None
Until the fall of 2025, unincorporated Greenburgh had no farmers market of its own. Now it has two, and they don't compete for the same crowd. The Greenburgh Farmers Market on Manhattan Avenue distributes free produce to anyone who stops by, which the town has described as the first program of its kind in the county. A second market opened next to the Hartsdale train station in September 2025, running Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. through late November. Town officials have confirmed both are returning for the 2026 season, which means a resident's Saturday morning circuit now has two real stops instead of a drive to a market in a neighboring county.
Recreation and a 294-Year-Old House
Central Avenue's retail turnover is common enough. Less common is picking up an entire recreation category and a piece of Revolutionary War history in the same year.
The Picklr, an indoor pickleball franchise based in Utah, cleared its special use permit this year to convert the old BuyBuyBaby space at 1019 Central Park Avenue into eight year-round courts, along with a pro shop and event space. Town officials pitched the approval as a way to pull people back into a shopping district that had been losing ground to online retail, since a court booking is the kind of visit that can't be replaced by a delivery truck.
A few minutes away on Ridge Road, the Odell House has sat mostly closed to the public for decades. Built starting in 1732, it later served as the headquarters of the Comte de Rochambeau, the French general whose army of roughly 5,000 troops camped nearby in the summer of 1781. It was inside that house that Rochambeau and George Washington settled on the plan to march south and confront the British at Yorktown, the campaign that effectively ended the Revolutionary War. The house sat in disrepair for more than thirty years before the Town of Greenburgh took ownership in 2020. Restoration work, backed by more than two million dollars in state funding secured with the help of Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, is now nearly finished, and the nonprofit running the museum project has targeted an opening sometime this year, timed loosely to the national commemorations of America's 250th anniversary. A house residents have driven past their entire lives without being able to enter is close to becoming one they can actually walk through.
Why the Distinction Is Worth Making
None of this is really about real estate. It's about knowing, if you already live here, which storefronts to actually plan around this month and which ones are still just promising signage. Golden Mirage, Il Sorrentino, K-Pot, Gotham Freeze, Inkaterra Market, and Invito are open now. Mikado, Pizza Zoo, Hartsbury Deli, Sprouts, and Best Buy are close but not there yet. The farmers markets and the Picklr sit somewhere in between, confirmed and funded but tied to a season or a permit timeline rather than a fixed date.
A neighborhood that's actually changing this much, this fast, is worth watching in either direction. If you're trying to figure out what any of it means for your own home's value, or you're weighing whether this is still the right stretch of Greenburgh for what you need next, Gerardo (Gerry) Magnarelli and the Gino Bello Homes team track this corridor block by block. Reach out for a free home valuation and market consultation whenever you're ready to talk through it.
