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A much-needed 15,000 square feet of green space is coming to a mostly industrial area west of Journal Square, thanks to a high-end condo development.

CANCOlofts announced this week that construction has begun on the new park, located across the street from its main building on Dey Street. In the inverse of the famed Joni Mitchell song, the park will replace a parking lot there, and it is slated to be finished and opened to the public by the end of October.

After more than a year of discussion and revision, the city’s redevelopment plan for Journal Square was approved by the City Council at its Wednesday meeting.

Jersey City artist Billy Miller is a bit of a modern-day renaissance man. He not only exhibits at venues like P.S. 1 and Deitch Projects and writes for magazines like Vice and Butt, but he also edits and publishes independent publications. We caught up with him for a chat about the two exhibitions he curated in Berlin this summer and a lot more.

In spite of a sorely needed vision and plan for the future of Journal Square, the latest version of the Journal Square 2060 Redevelopment Plan remains deficient.
The plan is for our true downtown and the heart of the city, but it fails to reconcile its goal of pedestrian-friendly street life with its requirement for minimum [...]

- Cardwell Still on MUA Board: In spite of a City Council resolution seeking his removal, longtime political operative Joe Cardwell, who was arrested on corruption charges last summer, is still sitting on the Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority board. His attorney argued that Jersey City should wait for the completion of Cardwell’s trial before [...]

After taking some testimony and public comment at its Tuesday night meeting, the Planning Board carried the consideration of the Journal Square 2060 Redevelopment Plan to its July 27 meeting. That meeting, which was initially canceled, has now been reinstated and will focus squarely on the Journal Square plan.
The plan, which you can browse below, [...]

The latest draft of a long-term development proposal for the Journal Square area will be discussed by the Jersey City Planning Board at its regular meeting tonight. The plan, which you can browse below, is the result of a long year-plus the city has spent reworking the plan since the original, larger plan was tabled [...]

A controversial proposal that seeks to purchase and raze the VIP Diner has met with initial resistance from some Journal Square residents, and the Division of Planning has indicated that the site plan it has received does not align with the kind of development the city would like to see in that area.

Early this month, the city’s planning division released the Journal Square 2060 Redevelopment Plan, the latest long-range development blueprint for Journal Square and its surrounding area. Journal Square 2060, which covers a little less ground than the original Journal Square Redevelopment Plan (211 acres as compared to 244), but a great deal more than the [...]

First came the Journal Square Redevelopment Plan, then the Journal Square Core Redevelopment Plan. And now, the Journal Square 2060 Redevelopment Plan.
On Friday, the city’s planning division made public the latest of its long-range development blueprints for Journal Square and its surrounding area. The Journal Square 2060 Redevelopment Plan, which covers a little less [...]