design/planning issues at waterfront

FBW will be Design Award recipient

Pier A Park at Hoboken's south waterfront. (October 20, 2010) In 1990, the Fund for a Better Waterfront (FBW) came out with a plan for the Hoboken waterfront. The plan called for a continuous waterfront park along the water's edge. The key to successfully executing this concept was to extend Hoboken's public street grid, thus [...]

FBW will be Design Award recipient2013-02-28T02:34:55-05:00

NJ issues permit for memorial intruding on HRWW

(October 4, 2005) On Monday, September 26th, walkway advocates filed a notice of appeal with the Appellate Court of New Jersey challenging the decision. The Veterans from American Legion Post 107 are upset by the ruling and are also threatening to appeal. On August 12, 2005, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) issued [...]

NJ issues permit for memorial intruding on HRWW2017-08-18T19:58:28-04:00

Jersey City waterfront critiqued in The New Yorker

A parking garage, part of the Newport development, directly facing the Jersey City waterfront and Hudson River Waterfront Walkway.(August 20, 2004) The new Goldman Sachs tower on the Jersey City waterfront designed by Cesar Pelli caught the attention of architecture critic Paul Goldberger. In a July 30, 2004 The New Yorker article, Goldberger writes that [...]

Jersey City waterfront critiqued in The New Yorker2012-01-09T00:30:00-05:00

Hoboken waterfront featured in Inquirer article

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 [...]

Hoboken waterfront featured in Inquirer article2017-08-18T20:20:53-04:00

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 [...]

Roots over the River2012-01-18T21:17:29-05:00

FBW Waterfront Plan Featured in ‘Designing New Jersey’

Model of Fund for a Better Waterfront plan for the Hoboken waterfront. (October 2000) Many of the features of the plan created by the Fund for a Better Waterfront (FBW) in 1990 are now being realized along Hoboken's waterfront. The New Jersey Office of State Planning, in its recently published a book entitled Designing New [...]

FBW Waterfront Plan Featured in ‘Designing New Jersey’2012-01-24T14:12:35-05:00
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