Share/Save 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 [...]
Share/SaveThe seven-acre Van Leer Place development on Hoboken Avenue near the Hoboken border will be recognized in the 11th annual Governor’s Environmental Excellence Awards in a Trenton ceremony tonight. The developer of the property, Hoboken Brownstone Company, won an award in the “Innovative Technology” category. Parts of the mixed-use development on the former site of [...]
The moral character of Leonard Harvey Smith — previously questioned by hidden video footage and photographs — is now reassessed by some of that very same video. And if a photo has been used to try to damn Smith, then it is only appropriate that a photo is used to speak to the mindset that could well justify some of his actions.
When the park was founded in 1976, there were few expectations that this 250 acres of contaminated land would ever recover from its past. Tainted with industrial waste, the swath seemed relegated to little more than an unsightly reminder of industrial recklessness. But now the Interior Natural Area is set to re-open. And this Saturday, the park will give its second-ever public tour of the area and its dramatic environmental recovery.
“We decided to open the Warehouse because we love this neighborhood,” Hinonangan says. “We live in the PAD. We see its immense potential to be the entertainment hub of Jersey City.”
Share/SaveA bill that would make it easier for mixed-use projects near transit hubs in Jersey City to get extensive tax credits was released by the Assembly Commerce and Economic Development Committee Monday by a vote of 6-0-1. As we noted yesterday, the proposal would extend tax credits to commercial and residential projects under the Urban [...]
Share/SaveAmong the many bills on the state Assembly’s legislative agenda today is one that could make it easier for mixed-use projects near transit hubs in Jersey City to get extensive tax credits. In 2008, the state passed the Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit Act as a mechanism to stimulate economic development in New Jersey’s cities. [...]
Share/SaveJersey City and two nonprofit groups have filed an appeal of U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina’s September decision which said they don’t have legal standing in their joint effort to negate Conrail’s sale of the 6th Street Embankment to developer Steve Hyman. The city, the Embankment Preservation Coalition and the Rails to Trails Conservancy have [...]
Share/Save The eight-story historic Lackawanna Center warehouse officially kicked off a massive renovation yesterday with a reception for its newest big-name tenant, “Cake Boss” Buddy Valastro, the reality TV star and famed baker who is expanding his Hoboken-based bakery to a Jersey City space almost as old as his family business. Carlo’s Bakery will lease [...]
Share/SaveThe New Jersey District Council of the Urban Land Institute (ULI-NNJ) has named the Jersey City waterfront development Crystal Point its 2010 “Project of the Year.” The high-rise condominium project, along with other winners of ULI-NNJ’s sixth annual Land Use Awards, will be honored at a December reception. The awards recognize “leadership in the responsible [...]
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