Share/Save The Jersey City Redevelopment Agency (JCRA) announced Friday that it has signed a long-term lease with the McDonald’s Corporation for space at the MLK HUB retail center in Ward F. The space, formerly occupied by Burger King, was one of several vacancies at the shopping center that on-site manager Ryan Struggers discussed in our [...]
Share/SaveJersey City Redevelopment Agency (JCRA) executive director Robert Antonicello was installed as the new chairman of the Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) Northern New Jersey Chapter on June 30. He is the first public official to take that role since the council chapter was certified in 2003. The ULI, which has members in nearly 100 countries [...]
Share/SaveThree individuals, two government agencies and three specific projects are the winners of Jersey City’s third annual Green Awards, the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency announced today. Two municipal employees will receive the Champions award this year. Transportation planner Naomi Hsu, who works in the planning division, gets the nod for her work on the Jersey [...]
Share/SaveThe Jersey City Redevelopment Agency (JCRA) will receive three federal grants through the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) brownfields program, which helps local groups and municipalities clean up sites that are unable to be developed due to toxic pollution. The JCRA’s grants, which total $600,000, are part of $2.3 million in grants to New Jersey cities [...]
Share/Save- As we noted yesterday, the big news was the seventh guilty plea in the federal corruption probe. Housing activist and former Ward F City Council candidate LaVern Webb-Washington pleaded guilty to accepting $15,000 in bribes from a purported developer in exchange for potential political favors. As a result, the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency is [...]
Share/Save- A new study by the Garden State Alliance for a New Economy (GANE) finds that most working people in Jersey City are either very poor or very well-off, with most of the wealth concentrated in a relatively small percentage of folks at the top. We’ll bring you more on the report’s findings later this [...]
Share/Save- Public Service Enterprise Group’s Hudson generating station on the Hackensack River is being outfitted with filters that promise to dramatically cut down on the barrage of toxic substances that leave its 500-foot smokestack every day. However, the $700 million project will not prevent the release of the biggest contributor to global warming: carbon. – [...]
Share/Save- Robert Antonicello of the Jersey City Redevelopment Authority and several local residents say that politicians being approached by federal informant Solomon Dwek about a purported development on Garfield Avenue should have smelled BS from the beginning. They say a project of that density, and with units going for as much as Dwek claimed, could [...]
Share/SaveThis year marks the second installment of the Jersey City Green Awards; nominations for developers, businesses and individuals are due this Friday, July 17. The awards, put on by the city and the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency(JCRA), recognize noteworthy environmental efforts in the areas of new development, business practices and residential homeowners’ initiatives. “After last [...]
Share/Save As various factions have battled over who should pay to relocate the electrical transformers inside Jersey City’s Powerhouse, the health of the historic structure has become ever more precarious. With this in mind, the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency (JCRA) and the Port Authority today are kicking off a stabilization project for the 100-plus-year-old structure. [...]
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