The finished canvas from The City Love Project in New York City UPDATED SEPTEMBER 27 at 1 PM: The event has been moved to Friday due to Thursday’s chances of rain. Jersey City this week will become the fifth American city to host the interactive public art show known as the City Love Project (CLP), [...]
Less than half a year after it began tending to an earth box farm on Kearney Avenue, it appears the Friends of the Lifers Youth Corporation will soon have to find somewhere else for its innovative farming program after a falling out with the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency.
Although the $15 million land deal that would have brought Jersey City the tri-state area’s first proton therapy cancer treatment center is now off the table, and the 2011 budget hearing scheduled for Wednesday has been postponed for another two weeks, the Healy administration insists everything is under control, with business administrator Jack Kelly assuring the public that the city’s “Plan B” will fill the $15 million hole without a property tax increase.
The $15 million sale of land behind the Jersey City Medical Center to Tessler Development in order to pave the way for the region’s first-ever proton therapy cancer treatment center is off the table, the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency (JCRA) announced this afternoon. As we reported earlier today, the land sale was apparently contingent on [...]
New questions are being raised this week about a $15 million deal for land behind the Jersey City Medical Center after it was revealed that the deal may be contingent on the developer being granted a generous tax abatement. UPDATE: SEPTEMBER 14 at 5:20 PM: The deal has been “put on hold indefinitely,” according to the JCRA.
Jersey City may soon be home to a proton therapy cancer treatment center — one of only a handful in the country — pending City Council approval of a $15 million land deal for the property behind the Jersey City Medical Center. The property in question has been the subject of debate and controversy since [...]
If your water heater was severely damaged or destroyed during last weekend’s storm, you’re likely looking to replace it soon. If you’re going to do so, one Jersey City official suggests, you might as well take advantage of a city sponsored rebate program to upgrade to a new energy-efficient model. Jersey City Redevelopment Agency executive [...]
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this week announced that Jersey City has been awarded $400,000 in federal brownfields grants to clean up and redevelop two sites, at Dwight and Ocean Avenues and on the site of what will eventually become Berry Lane Park. The Berry Lane Park project, which the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency (JCRA) [...]
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.
As Jersey City tries to sell the historic JCPD headquarters on Erie Street, a neighborhood group contends the deal is being done far too hastily and in a less-than-transparent manner, an allegation the Healy administration and the agency likely to oversee the redevelopment both flatly reject. The group’s claim that the estimated sale price is “alarmingly low” also raises questions about whether the property should be designated in need of redevelopment.
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