- Couple Slain in Possible Botched Carjacking: A 27-year-old Jersey City man and his 25-year-old fiancee were shot to death outside their Randolph Avenue home early Sunday morning. Investigators say the couple, who had just returned from their engagement party, were shot during an unsuccessful carjacking attempt. – County Schools Budget: Under the proposed $45.7 [...]
Last February, the City Council tabled the Journal Square Redevelopment Plan, a long-term visioning project covering a roughly 244-acre swath of land in and around Journal Square. Now a slimmed-down proposal is back in the legislative pipeline, with the Planning Board set to review the Journal Square Core Redevelopment Plan this Tuesday evening. The plan [...]
- “The mayor is correct when he says this columnist is biased,” Agustin Torres writes in today’s Journal. “I am.” He points to literature from Healy’s earlier campaigns as proof that the mayor has failed to do what he said he’d do. As we reported yesterday, the mayor has declined a second forum that Torres [...]
- Melissa Surach has some photos and stories from her recent trip to what she calls “the secret beach” in Liberty State Park. She’s also got a mighty cute dog. – Curbed casts its gaze to our side of the river, posting some nice-looking renderings of nARCHITECTS’ proposed design for Paulus Hook Park. – Jersey [...]
- Jersey City Construction reports that demolition has begun at the site of the proposed massive towers that are the centerpiece of the Journal Square Redevelopment Plan. – Marie Javins has a cute little story about “small town life” in Jersey City. – Own This City over at Time Out New York quoted Jersey City’s [...]
At an event last week sponsored by the New Jersey chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NJ-NAIOP), Corzine said he would support and sign a bill currently under consideration in Trenton to amend the Revenue Allocation District Financing Act, provided it doesn’t get heavily modified, according to a report on GlobeSt.com. [...]
photo by Steve Gold Wednesday’s City Council meeting was a doozy: Clocking in at 4 hours 5 minutes, the meeting was almost an hour longer than the last two combined. But I suppose that’s to be expected when you have a proposal to change the very nature of a roughly 244-acre swath of land — [...]
- At last night’s City Council meeting, the council spent nearly two hours on the Journal Square Redevelopment Plan, hearing from 21 members of the public but ultimately voting to table the plan for further study. The plan is a massive “visioning” plan encompassing 244 acres that calls for gargantuan high rises, a revamping of [...]
- The City Council is considering tabling Wednesday’s vote on the Journal Square Redevelopment plan in order to get more information — particularly on the the District Improvement Bonus (DIB) financing part of the plan. The council will still have the public hearing on the plan at the council meeting. – NJ companies, residents and [...]
- At a presser in Hackensack yesterday, Sen. Bob Menendez said NJ should land billions dollars of federal stimulus money, particularly in the form of tax relief, infrastructure funding and green energy projects from the package scheduled to be signed by President Obama today. Mayor Healy says Jersey City will seek funding for the new [...]
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