(March 2000) What began as two 24 story towers dropped to 22 then 18 and now 8 stories. Area residents packed two meetings regarding 1600 Park Avenue in January, first a developer-sponsored presentation on January 10 and then a Zoning Board hearing on January 18. The Mayor of Hoboken, Anthony Russo took notice and by [...]
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 [...]
Mayor David Roberts who ran two years ago on a reform platform now relies heavily on contributions from real estate developers to fuel his political campaigns. (May 2003) On election day May 8, 2001, City Councilman David Roberts ousted Mayor Anthony Russo from office by promising to reform City Hall. A major theme of the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
(November 2002) Monday, December 2 at 7 pm -- Special Meeting/Public Workshop of City Council -- Hoboken City Council Chambers Monday, December 4 at 7 pm -- Hoboken City Council -- FINAL VOTE On November 18, a packed City Council Chambers caused the Council to table an ordinance to amend the South Waterfront Redevelopment Plan. [...]
Applied Companies/Starwood Heller, developers of 333 River Street at Block C, have been designated to build an 160 foot high-rise hotel at the northern portion of Block B. (November 2002) At the November 6, 2002 City Council caucus, the administration of Mayor David Roberts unveiled for the first time a revised proposal for Block B [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
(September 2001) When real estate developer Joe Barry sat in the car of his political friend, County Executive Robert Janiszewski, he was not aware that their conversation was being recorded. At the end of last year, FBI agents had ensnared Janiszewski in a sting operation, causing him to help collect evidence in what appears to [...]
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 [...]
