Calling it a “big deal,” Mayor Steven Fulop hit Twitter and blasted out an email today to tout a $500 million plan to revitalize the Holland Gardens public housing complex. Plans to tear down and replace the 76-year-old, 3.3-acre complex at 15th Street and Jersey Avenue date back to 2019. At a press conference yesterday […]
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Jersey City Apartments: Getting Slightly Bigger and Much Costlier
While Jersey City’s new apartments are getting bigger, the increase in size isn’t keeping up with the increase in rents. That’s the takeaway from two new studies. Bucking a national trend, Jersey City apartments have been growing. While over the last ten years new apartments shrank by 54 square feet nationally, new apartments in Jersey […]
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Forestry Standards, Lead Pipes and West Side Development on Council’s Docket
At tonight’s City Council meeting, the council will finally be asked to vote on passage of the city’s revised forestry standards, guidelines that were initially adopted in 2018 and that have been undergoing hotly debated revisions for over a year. According to Tuesday night’s council caucus meeting, the lawmakers will also discuss issues involving residential […]
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Workers Cheated and Taxes Unpaid on Controversial Developer’s Building
A building owned by controversial developer Peter Mocco is once again mired in legal issues. A multi-agency team of investigators has assessed more than $1.3 million in back wages and penalties to 20 contractors performing construction work at 88 Regent Street, Mocco’s latest project in Liberty Harbor North. In a four part series, The Jersey […]
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Downtown Parking Gets Tougher with Closure of Popular Lot
For years, a large parking lot on the corner of Christopher Columbus Drive and Barrow Street has been a convenient option for motorists looking to access Downtown amenities or to grab a Path train at Grove Street. This week the lot closed for good to make way for a condo development, potentially exacerbating a shortage […]
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City Takes Steps to Rein in Own Spending and to Help Beleaguered RentersÂ
As Jersey City continues to suffer growing pains reflected by a surging municipal budget and the fastest growing rents in the New York City metropolitan area, the city’s municipal government spurred in part by Ward E Councilman James Solomon is taking steps aimed at reining in both. On January 25, the city rolled out a buyout offer […]
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Council Narrowly Approves Construction Agreement for SciTech Scity High School
With only four City Council members in favor, the council on Wednesday approved a resolution authorizing a project development agreement for construction of SciTech Scity, the STEM-focused high school to be built adjacent to Liberty Science Center and run by the Hudson County School of Technology. Parties to the agreement include the city, Hudson County, the […]
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City Council to Consider New Journal Square Skyscraper
At its meeting on Nov. 28, the Jersey City Municipal Council introduced an ordinance that would allow for the construction of a new skyscraper in Journal Square: a 35-story building at 701 Newark Ave. where there is currently a parking lot. Requested by city business administrator John Metro, the ordinance would amend the Journal Square 2060 […]
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JCMUA Provides Update on Replacing Lead Water Lines
The Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority updated the City Council on Nov. 22 on its plan to replace 16,000 water lines in Jersey City that are lined with or made of lead. In February the utility had announced plans to replace approximately 1,000 of the lines per year. That work has begun, according to JCMUA executive director Joseph […]
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The Pompidou Centre is Unnecessary
A European star was coming to Jersey City. Rem Koolhaas, a Pritzker Prize-winning architect and one of Time Magazine’s 2008 picks for the world’s most influential people, announced his intention to build a fifty story tower on the lot that was once home to the Arts Center at 111 First Street. Architecture News wrote that Koolhaas’s interest […]