Stevens Institute of Technology
Massive, exposed parking garages on Hudson Street serve to deaden the streetscape and contradict Hoboken's scale and character. (January 2004) On October 28th, the Hoboken Zoning Board heard, for the first time, testimony presented on behalf of Stevens Institute of Technology in its application for a massive 725-car parking garage at Hoboken's waterfront. At the [...]
Rendering of four-story, 386-foot long garage proposed by Stevens Institute for Hoboken's waterfront. (October 2003) Stevens Institute of Technology presented its plans for a massive waterfront parking garage to the Hoboken Zoning Board on Tuesday evening, October 28. Before a standing room only crowd, the Zoning Board heard two expert witnesses testify for Stevens, an [...]
Excavation site in April 2002, where 35,000 tons of serpentine rock containing asbestos was blasted and carted away by Stevens. Attorneys defending nonprofit organization say legal action is unprecedented attack by university on First Amendment right of free speech (February 2003) Today the Fund for a Better Waterfront and its team of attorneys called upon [...]
Jersey JournalBy Michaelangelo ConteJournal staff writer HOBOKEN - Stevens Institute of Technology has filed a defamation suit against the Fund for a Better Waterfront, saying two of its officers "maliciously published statements with knowledge of their falsity and with reckless disregard of the truth." The FBW has called Stevens' suit "baseless" and said it would [...]
Concrete for roof of parking deck now being poured despite the fact that the Hoboken Planning Board never granted approval for this garage. (February 2003) On March 11, 2002, Stevens Institute of Technology began excavating over 35,000 tons of serpentine rock at Castle Point to make way for a 725-car parking garage. Five weeks later, [...]
Stevens' proposed soccer field and running track at the Union Dry Dock site will cover several acres of the Hudson River with decking and pilings. (January 2003) At the end of last year, Stevens Institute of Technology announced with great fanfare that it had hired the Philadelphia firm of Wallace Roberts and Todd to develop [...]
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 [...]
Contractors for Stevens Institute are now pouring the concrete walls, supporting columns and ramps for the four-story parking garage, not yet approved by the Planning Board. (September 2002) On Thursday, September 12 at 7 p.m. at Hoboken City Hall, Stevens Institute of Technology will present their "concept" plan for a 725 car parking garage facing [...]
Since March 11, four months of excavation for a Stevens' parking garage has been completed but the Planning Board has issued no approvals for this project. (July 2002) The Hoboken Zoning Ordinance requires that the Planning Board grant site plan approval for parking facilities of 50 cars or more. Flaunting this requirement, Stevens Institute of [...]
With no dumping allowed in the Meadowlands, serpentine rock accumulates at Castle Point in Hoboken, uncovered. (May 2002) On April 24, 2002, after learning that an estimated 30,000 cubic yards of rock dumped in the Meadowlands contained asbestos, the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission ordered an end to the dumping and demanded its removal. Subsequently, NJMC [...]
Stevens' rendering of their proposed Harbor Estuary Center makes the building appear transparent. (March 10, 2002) Hoboken is now tantalizingly close to creating a truly public waterfront. The city has nearly completed a continuous park running the entire one-mile stretch of the Hudson River from the Hoboken Train Terminal to the Weehawken Cove. Only three [...]
