To the Editor: I hope the city continues its efforts to preserve The Embankment along 6th Street. One of the things that helps make cities great is planning that acknowledges, preserves and fully realizes its extraordinary spaces — and our Embankment is certainly one of these. It’s the kind of space that distinguishes Jersey City [...]
Jersey City took another step this week towards the sale of the Jersey City Police Department (JCPD) headquarters on Erie Street, approving an ordinance to adopt the 8 Erie Street Redevelopment Plan to guide the development the JCPD building and an adjacent surface parking lot.
Developer Roseland Property Company says two retail spaces at its new Monaco luxury rental building have been leased, as it prepares to host an official ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday morning. VB3, which is described as “an Italian pizza bar,” has leased a 3,800 square foot unit, and Sovereign Bank has leased a 4,100-square-foot unit. Both tenants [...]
Editor’s Note: The Jersey City Redevelopment Agency is responding to last week’s story about Raphael D’Angelis’ proposal for a floating marina complex. Mr. D’Angelis’ view of both the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency’s development process and Request for Proposals (RFP) regarding the Marina site is not only troubling but totally inaccurate. Due to considerable interest from [...]
Gov. Chris Christie yesterday issued a conditional veto of a bill that aims to make it easier for mixed-use projects near transit hubs in Jersey City to get extensive tax credits, saying he wants it to require less affordable housing. The measure, which cleared the legislature in January, would extend tax credits to commercial and [...]
- Czaplicki: Gov. Christie has suspended six of the seven members of the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners, including Jersey City Housing, Economic Development and Commerce director Carl Czaplicki, citing a “pattern of abuse” in which they routinely hired friends and relatives and turned the sewer authority into a cash cow for the politically connected. Christie [...]
A bill that would make it easier for mixed-use projects near transit hubs in Jersey City to get extensive tax credits was approved by both the state Assembly and state Senate earlier this month. The measure, which was sponsored by Hudson County Assemblyman Ruben Ramos and five other legislators in the two houses, would extend [...]
A bill that would provide tax credits for property owners seeking to rehabilitate historic homes received final legislative approval when it was passed yesterday by the Senate. The bill, part of legislative Democrats’ Back to Work package of jobs and economic development bills, was passed by a vote of 38 to 0. It would create [...]
- Snowstorm: The city’s initial estimate for the cost of the snow cleanup job is $753,248, which does not include costs to repair damaged municipal vehicles and equipment — 18 of the city’s 67 snow plows broke down or became unusable during the blizzard. Meanwhile, if you abandoned your vehicle on a state highway, you [...]
The Independent’s office will be closed Friday for the holiday; this will be the last news roundup until Monday. Happy new year, all! – Winter Storm: Jersey City residents aren’t the only ones frustrated by the pace of cleanup post-storm, and municipalities across the state say the slower-than-usual response was in part due to budget [...]
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