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Hoboken waterfront featured in Philadelphia Inquirer article
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The walkway at Pier A Park in Hoboken designed by landscape architects Henry Arnold and Cassandra Wilday. (December 2002) Inga Saffron, the architectural critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer has been writing about a troubled waterfront development project at Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia. Penn’s Landing, over the past twenty years, has gone through four different plans and four developers. In one [...]
Read More →Final Vote on South Waterfront
(November 2002) Monday, December 2 at 7 pm — Special Meeting/Public Workshop of City Council — Hoboken City Council Chambers Monday, December 4 at 7 pm — Hoboken City Council — FINAL VOTE On November 18, a packed City Council Chambers caused the Council to table an ordinance to amend the South Waterfront Redevelopment Plan. The final vote will take [...]
Read More →Mayor Roberts ups development limits at Hoboken’s south waterfront
Applied Companies/Starwood Heller, developers of 333 River Street at Block C, have been designated to build an 160 foot high-rise hotel at the northern portion of Block B. (November 2002) At the November 6, 2002 City Council caucus, the administration of Mayor David Roberts unveiled for the first time a revised proposal for Block B at Hoboken’s South Waterfront Redevelopment [...]
Read More →Roots over the River
Award-winning Pier A Park. (June 2001) Ten years ago, Pier A at Hoboken’s south waterfront was slated for a 1.1 million square foot, 33-story office complex to be built over the Hudson River. Today it is a five-acre award-winning public park that people flock to on a warm summer day. The June 2001 issue of Landscape Architecture features a cover [...]
Read More →McMullen Sells Devils, Abandoning Plans for Hoboken Arena
(March 2000) On March 16, John J. McMullen sold his team, the New Jersey Devils, to a Yankee-Nets’ affiliate for $175 million, nearly six times the $30,000 he paid for the franchise in 1982. As he took the money, a bitter McMullen railed against Governor Whitman for refusing to grant him the air rights over the historic Erie Lackawanna Station [...]
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