Weehawken Waterfront

(May 2000) Friends of the Weehawken Waterfront are organizing a rally to protest the resumption of Planning Board hearings on the proposed Port Imperial South project, one of the largest waterfront developments along the Hudson River. Real estate developer Roseland Properties broke off talks ten days ago with the Friends of the Weehawken Waterfront after [...]

(April 2000) Real estate developer Roseland Properties and citizen group Friends of the Weehawken Waterfront (FWW) have entered into settlement negotiations to resolve their year-long legal battle over the future of the proposed Port Imperial South project, one of the largest waterfront developments along the Hudson River. Just weeks after public hearings ground to a [...]

Fifteen hearings have been held since they began on October 14, 1999. There has been over 50 hours of testimony by eight expert witnesses. Now that he is nearly finished presenting his case, developer Carl Goldberg of Roseland Properties may be forced to start over. Weehawken Planning Board attorney Thomas Dunn ruled that the Board [...]