Hoboken’s South Waterfront
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 [...]
(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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
(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 [...]
