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Share/Save The Actors Fund Housing Development Corporation (AFHDC) is currently running an online survey to help assess the affordable housing needs of local residents engaged in the performing arts/entertainment industries. The survey will help steer AFHDC’s development of arts-related affordable housing in the New York/New Jersey area. “Actors, dancers and musicians have median incomes below [...]

Share/Save- Bonding for Retirement Payouts: Jersey City officials hope to bond for $9.3 million to cover payouts to retiring workers for unused sick, vacation and compensatory time, instead of $22 million as initially planned. The ordinance will be up for introduction at Wednesday’s City Council meeting. – NJ Transit Gets the ARC Tunnel Bill: The [...]

Share/Save- Columbus Drive: The widening and reconfiguration of the busy Downtown thoroughfare Columbus Drive is well underway, but Ward E councilman Steven Fulop hopes that the plan to eliminate on-street parking may be reconsidered after the road paving is complete. The entire project is due to be wrapped up by next spring at the latest. [...]

Share/SaveThe Jersey City Housing Authority’s (JCHA) Barbara Place Terrace has won a 2010 Award of Excellence from the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials. The mixed-income development will be honored in the Project Design category at the group’s national conference next week. The project is one of 23 nationwide to receive an award this [...]

Share/Save- Economic Development Subsidies: New Jersey Policy Perspective’s recent “The Good, the Bad and the ERGly” report shows how the state and municipalities take advantage of New Jersey’s newest tax increment financing law — the Economic Redevelopment and Growth (ERG) Grant program — to redirect state and local taxes to subsidize private projects. The report [...]

Share/SaveThe Healy administration announced today that Jersey City has received a total of $13,577,602 in federal grant money via the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The largest allocation is from a $7,105,628 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG). The city says this will be used to fund about 60 nonprofit programs, and to fund [...]

Share/SaveThe Jersey City Episcopal Community Development Corporation (JCECDC) will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony tomorrow morning for what it is heralding as “the first new construction on Monticello Avenue in decades,” a seven-unit affordable condo development with ground-floor retail space. The project, located where two formerly vacant sites used to sit at 167-169 Monticello Ave., cost [...]

Share/Save- New Looks for Two Schools: As a result of failing to meet federal education benchmarks for several years, Middle School 41 and Snyder High School have been restructured to become art institutes, using federal turnaround grants. The goal, school officials tell the Journal, is to have the Fred W. Martin Center for the Arts [...]

Share/Save- Public Will Pay for Smith’s Defense at Corruption Trial: A federal judge has granted approval for the public to pay the legal tab for L. Harvey Smith, a former Assemblyman and City Council member charged with taking bribes in last year’s massive FBI sting. – Fire Chief Will be Sworn in Friday: Darren Rivers, [...]

Share/Save- The Latest in the Manzos’ Corruption Case: Attorneys for former Jersey City Assemblyman Louis Manzo and his brother Ronald Manzo have submitted a brief arguing that a U.S. District Court judge was right in dropping four charges against them. The document is a response to the U.S. Attorney’s office, which argued in a brief [...]