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Court Victory for Neighborhood Groups Fighting Millennium Towers
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(March 2001) Mayor Schundler’s effort to put the controversial 43-story Millennium Towers project on a fast track came to an abrupt halt yesterday. Superior Court Judge Jose Fuentes vacated the Jersey City Planning Board’s actions that permitted the approvals for this oversized 551-unit project on the Hoboken-Jersey City border. Judge Fuentes determined that six out of eight members of the [...]
Read More →Community Groups Submit Petitions for Referendum Vote on Millennium Tower’s Tax Abatements
(October 2000) Let the voters of Jersey City decide. This is what leaders of a referendum petition drive say concerning a Jersey City ordinance granting tax abatements to the developers of the controversial Millennium Towers 41-story high-rise. On October 3, Bob DuVal, of the Sgt. Anthony Neigborhood Association and Vito Brunetti, of the Riverview Neighborhood Association submitted over 3,300 signatures [...]
Read More →City of Hoboken and Civic Groups Mount Legal Challenge to Millennium Towers Project
(August 2000) The City of Hoboken has filed suit against its neighboring municipality, the City of Jersey City, its Planning Board and Redevelopment Agency for approving the controversial $150 million, twin 43-story Millennium Towers project. Two civic organizations, the Coalition for a Better Waterfront and the Riverview Neighborhood Association, in a separate action, have also filed a complaint in opposition [...]
Read More →Jersey City Approves Windfall Gain for Millennium Towers Developer
(June 2000) United Diversified, LLC, has succeeded in gaining approvals for his $150 million, 43-story Millennium Towers project in Jersey City. The many controversities surrounding the project did not deter the City of Jersey City from providing an extraordinary economic windfall for United Diversified through amendments to the Jersey Avenue Redevelopment Plan and plans for a light rail stop. The [...]
Read More →Planning Board Ignores Public Outcry, Approves Towers
(May 2000) On Tuesday, May 9, the Jersey City Planning Board approved amendments to the Jersey Avenue Redevelopment Plan that will increase the building height limit on the site owned by United Diversified, LLC, of Bayonne from 110 to 440 feet. The tumultuous hearing pitted residents of Jersey City and Hoboken who have been waging a campaign to defeat the [...]
Read More →Planning Board to Decide Millennium Tower Height Increase from 110 to 475 Feet
(May 2000) The Millennium Towers project, consisting of two 43-story towers proposed for the Jersey Avenue Redevelopment Area, will go before the Jersey City Planning Board this Tuesday evening, May 9 at 6:00 p.m. Community organizations from Jersey City Heights to Hoboken have vowed to fight this 475-foot project that exceeds current height restrictions by 365 feet. The groups contend [...]
Read More →Millennium Towers: How High Can They Go?
(March 2000) The Schundler administration is supporting an effort by United Diversified of Bayonne to build Jersey City’s own version of the twin towers, a pair of 43-story spires containing 551 units. The towers would rise 475 feet in the air along the New Jersey Transit train tracks several blocks west of the Hoboken Terminal. This block, vacant except for [...]
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