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The good news and the bad concerning Maxwell Place Park
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Fund for a Better Waterfront’s design for Maxwell House Park in 2001. September 19, 2007 Yesterday, Hoboken Mayor David Roberts cut the ribbon to officially open the waterfront park at Maxwell Place. What has been in the works since early 2001, prior to Roberts being elected Mayor, is now becoming a reality. The first phase of this park includes a [...]
Read More →Year and a half of Maxwell House hearings could end on Dec. 23
The former Maxwell House Coffee plant, a 14 acre site proposed for a 1.4 million square foot development. (December 2002) For the past seventeen months, the application for the 1.4 million square foot Maxwell House development project, has followed a tortured path through the Hoboken Planning Board hearing process. Attorney James Segreto, representing objectors to this project, has effectively prolonged [...]
Read More →Stevens Institute’s house of cards for Maxwell House collapses
Rendering of Stevens Institute’s proposal for Maxwell House created by Demetri Sarantitis of the Team for Environmental Architecture. (October 2002) Was it just a pipe dream? For the past year, Stevens Institute has touted its elaborate plans for the former Maxwell House Coffee plant, 14 acres at Hoboken’s north waterfront. Stevens promised to establish a technology/science magnet school for grades [...]
Read More →Complex land transaction to create Maxwell House Park at risk
Fund for a Better Waterfront’s design for Maxwell House Park. (March 2002) Potentially, Maxwell House Park could be the jewel in the crown of Hoboken’s string of waterfront parks. In a unique land conservation arrangement orchestrated by the Fund for a Better Waterfront (FBW), the owners of the former Maxwell House Coffee plant have offered to donate one-third of their [...]
Read More →A New Brew for Maxwell House
(March 2000) On Monday, March 20, developers Danny Gans and George Vallone publicly unveiled their plans for “Maxwell Haus,” a 950 unit, $300 million complex that preserves several of bauhaus style buildings at the former coffee plant along the Hoboken waterfront. Planner Jane Thompson of Thompson Design Group in Boston who assisted with the presentation, designed the over-all layout of [...]
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