Jersey City HOPE VI Project Nabs Statewide Smart Growth Award
By Jon Whiten • Apr 15th, 2010 • Category: Blog, News
The statewide smart growth group New Jersey Future today announced that the transformation of a Jersey City public housing project under the federal HOPE VI program has won a 2010 Smart Growth Award for Creative Neighborhood Affordable Housing.
The development, which demolished the original 492-unit Lafayette Gardens public housing project and has replaced it with a new mixed-income community encompassing several privately-managed low-rise developments, including Barbara Place Terrace (pictured at right), Woodward Terrace and the Lafayette senior Living Center.
The Jersey City Housing Authority, as well as the architecture firm Wallace Roberts & Todd and developers Michaels Development Company, are the official recipients of the award, which will be presented at a June 2 ceremony in Newark.
Meanwhile, Hoboken-based Dean Marchetto Architects, the firm behind Gull’s Cove and the Grand View in Jersey City, will share an award for Mixed-Use Waterfront Enhancement with the Hoboken Brownstone Company and Toll Brothers, for the Maxwell Place on the Hudson development in uptown Hoboken.
Debbie Mans, who chaired the awards committee, had praise for all of the winners, saying they “exemplify the kind of creative thinking, innovative planning and careful consensus-building that are critical components of any successful 21st-century development or redevelopment project in New Jersey.”
The other 2010 Smart Growth Award winners are:
Historic Reuse & Downtown Redevelopment
Historic Golden Swan Inn & CWA Office Development, Trenton (Clarke Caton Hintz; Facility Strategies; Lamarra Construction; Woodrose Properties)
Main Street Community Revitalization
MidTown Commons, Neptune (CityWorks, Inc.; Neptune Township; New Jersey Economic Development Authority; TD Bank)
New Town Center & Traditional Neighborhood Development
Robbinsville Town Center (Feinberg & Associates; Sharbell Development Corp.; Robbinsville Township)
Innovative Growth & Land Conservation Strategy
Woolwich Transfer of Development Rights Plan (Group Melvin Design; New Jersey State Planning Commission; Woolwich Township)
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Jon Whiten is the founding editor of the Jersey City Independent; he now works for a public-policy nonprofit in Trenton.
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