MasterCard International Global Headquarters
The MasterCard International Global Headquarters is an office building located at 2000 Purchase Street in the town of Purchase, New York. It was constructed in the early 1980s as part of a movement of large corporations onto suburban estate settings, and has been called the "architectural jewel of Westchester". The building is part of the Purchase Centre complex and originally was constructed by the Nestlé company and occupied by IBM for several years. It was designed by I. M. Pei of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners and has won awards over the years for its architectural style.
In 1977 the United States-based component of Nestlé announced that it intended to move from its headquarters in White Plains, New York to a new site in Purchase, New York. Nestlé had been one of the first companies to move to a suburban environment 25 years early and was part of a general relocation movement at the time of companies' headquarters to "estate settings". Nestlé stated that if the town did not grant a zoning amendment for the parcel it had selected, it would move the headquarters out of the state. However, the town of Harrison objected to the construction on the grounds that the new building would interfere with the town's zoning plan that had been adopted five years earlier and would cause traffic flow problems in the area. Then-governor of New York, Hugh Carey, intervened on behalf of Nestlé, but in June 1977 the town board rejected the request for the zoning amendment. Nestlé then approached Manhattanville College, which had recently announced plans to sell 135 acres (0.55 km2) of surplus land from its 250-acre (1.0 km2) campus. With subsequent state modifications to the I-684 highway to the site, it became possible for the construction of the headquarters.
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