The Shipyard Associates officially withdrew their proposal to build 120 luxury residential units on the North Pier in a letter dated December 19, 2000. The developer's attorney, Ira Karasick, sent this letter to the Hoboken Planning Board citing concerns of Planning Board members and the community as contributing to their decision. The withdrawal [...]
(September 2000) On Tuesday, September 5, Hoboken residents jammed into the ground floor conference room at City Hall to protest Applied Companies' application to build 120 townhouses on a pier at Hoboken's north waterfront. The following evening, Elizabeth Markevitch presented the Hoboken City Council with 2500 signatures of Hoboken residents urging the City to take [...]
(October 2000) Let the voters of Jersey City decide. This is what leaders of a referendum petition drive say concerning a Jersey City ordinance granting tax abatements to the developers of the controversial Millennium Towers 41-story high-rise. On October 3, Bob DuVal, of the Sgt. Anthony Neigborhood Association and Vito Brunetti, of the Riverview Neighborhood [...]
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 [...]
(August 2000) The City of Hoboken has filed suit against its neighboring municipality, the City of Jersey City, its Planning Board and Redevelopment Agency for approving the controversial $150 million, twin 43-story Millennium Towers project. Two civic organizations, the Coalition for a Better Waterfront and the Riverview Neighborhood Association, in a separate action, have also [...]
(July 2000) Developer Joseph Barry won approval for the largest development in Hoboken consisting of 1160 units of luxury residential housing and 63,200 square feet of commercial development in 1996. This massive project consists of a series of monolithic, block-long buildings, 13 stories tall, sitting atop 3 and 4 story parking garages. As of June, [...]
(June 2000) United Diversified, LLC, has succeeded in gaining approvals for his $150 million, 43-story Millennium Towers project in Jersey City. The many controversities surrounding the project did not deter the City of Jersey City from providing an extraordinary economic windfall for United Diversified through amendments to the Jersey Avenue Redevelopment Plan and plans for [...]
(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 [...]
(May 2000) On Tuesday, May 9, the Jersey City Planning Board approved amendments to the Jersey Avenue Redevelopment Plan that will increase the building height limit on the site owned by United Diversified, LLC, of Bayonne from 110 to 440 feet. The tumultuous hearing pitted residents of Jersey City and Hoboken who have been waging [...]
(May 2000) The Millennium Towers project, consisting of two 43-story towers proposed for the Jersey Avenue Redevelopment Area, will go before the Jersey City Planning Board this Tuesday evening, May 9 at 6:00 p.m. Community organizations from Jersey City Heights to Hoboken have vowed to fight this 475-foot project that exceeds current height restrictions by [...]
(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 [...]
Developers of prime waterfront real estate along the Hudson River have exerted their political influence to bring in huge subsidies from the government. The "gold coast" takes on a new meaning with the millions of dollars in federal and state money going to benefit private owners building on some of the most valuable land in [...]
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 [...]
(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 [...]
(March 2000) The Schundler administration is supporting an effort by United Diversified of Bayonne to build Jersey City's own version of the twin towers, a pair of 43-story spires containing 551 units. The towers would rise 475 feet in the air along the New Jersey Transit train tracks several blocks west of the Hoboken Terminal. [...]
(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, [...]
