Maxwell Place Development

The good news & bad re: Maxwell Place Park

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 [...]

The good news & bad re: Maxwell Place Park2017-08-18T19:51:22-04:00

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 [...]

Maxwell House hearings could end on Dec. 232017-08-18T20:20:20-04:00

SIT 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 [...]

SIT house of cards for Maxwell House collapses2017-08-18T20:21:50-04:00

Complex land transaction to create 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 [...]

Complex land transaction to create park at risk2017-08-18T20:23:53-04:00

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, [...]

A New Brew for Maxwell House2012-01-17T21:36:45-05:00
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