JERSEY CITY | Projects and Construction thread

[Hamilton]

KRE hopes to break ground on tower 3 of Journal Squared as soon as Tower 2 opens:

https://newyorkyimby.com/2019/01/jon...2024-more.html

KRE is also hoping to develop several properties on Kennedy Blvd (e.g., the Rite Aid and McDonald's sites) in collaboration with Silverstein Properties. However they want tax abatements, and Fulop and the council refuse to give any more to market-rate projects. So there's been an impasse for a couple of years on those sites now. The tax abatements for the three Journal Squared towers were approved years ago.

[C.]

Originally Posted by Hamilton

There was actually a neighborhood meeting on a proposal to upzone the site and reduce parking requirements in exchange for transportation improvements and prep for a Marion station a few months ago.

Unfortunately the usual selfish, car-obsessed motorhead crowd came out. Don't know if the Councilwoman for Ward B feels inclined to go against them in granting the changes that had been proposed. Fulop is also increasingly anti-development.

Maybe that's why the old developer sold, who knows?

And jerseydigs picks up the story: Toronto Developer Buys Puccini’s Site in Jersey City for $48M

It's like the read this thread for leads.

[C.]

630-632 Newark is now over 650 units, more than Journal Squared 1. The height remains at 27 floors. I don't know how that's possible.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...13#post8457913

[C.]

2019 is off to a hot start as several new applications have come in the past few days and all of them are in Journal Square (or technically nearby in the case of 591 Montgomery. The renderings from the architects are previously approved buildings. Not sure the current status or if a rendering is already out there.

591 Montgomery

Is allegedly a new 15 floor building that will have 4 levels of underground parking. I'm confused where exactly it will be located since there is already a 13 floor building at 591 Montgomery that will not be demolished.

The new building will rise 215 ft and have 103 units. There will also be a medical facility on the bottom floors.

I'm thinking it's an adaptive reuse of the existing building even though they claim it's new construction on vacant land.

100 Tuers

Image from GRO Architects website: http://www.groarc.com

Planned board has already approved

253 Academcy St

Image from GRO Architects website: http://www.groarc.com

77 units and already approved.

804 Newark

Image from GRO Architects website: http://www.groarc.com

161 Van Wagnen Avenue
13 floor building with 124 units with 10% being affordable. 39 parking spots.

[C.]

And more before the planning board


345 Baldwin Avenue
Developed by 345 Baldwin LCC
13 floors, 116 units, 21 parking spaces

32 Oakland Avenue
15 floors, 297 units, commercial space, 181 automated parking spaces, 149 bike parking

431-433 MLK Drive
6 floors, 23 units

70 Central Avenue
5 floors, 31 units, retail, 32 parking spaces

233-35 Newark Avenue
5 floors, 16 units, retail, 4 parking spaces

[C.]

The following are renderings from Titanium Real Estate Group and can be viewed on their website at https://titaniumrg.com/portfolio/

They are in various stages of development. Maybe already built, I don't know.

Newark Ave

6 floors, boutique hotel with 64 units, market, public space

345 Baldwin


44 Newkirk


65 Newkirk


39 High St


75 Jordan


136 Summit Ave


144 Fairmount Ave

[C.]

I think this one is new too

Monticello Triangle
Renderings from Marchetto Higgins Steve Architects at http://mhsarchitects.com

[C.]

A mysterious Journal Square tower can be found here.

https://www.scottmahaffeyarchitect.c...tower-proposal

I bet it's 693-701 Newark Avenue
https://jerseydigs.com/proposed-deve...ottage-street/
https://jerseydigs.com/canbis-dream-...e-jersey-city/

[Busy Bee]

Good looking projects. Just think how sharp Jersey City will look in 10 years...

[Oron Zchut]

Of the Titanium Realty projects, only 65 Newkirk St is currently under construction. The site for 75 Jordan has been demolished but there was no other movement last I checked a few months ago. 136 Summit and 144 Fairmount have been (presumably bought and) replaced by this project by Monticello Equities (via JerseyDigs):



It is currently under construction. The rest of Titanium's portfolio is unknown - most of those sites haven't had much movement, if at all.

The Scott Mahaffey proposal is definitely that site. Looks exactly the same as in the Jerseydigs article.

Most of the rest of those proposals you've mentioned are from sometime in 2018. Hopefully a bunch of them will get built. Journal Square will be very different in a few years.

[C.]

Oron, thanks for the info!!

Here is the render for 32 Oakland. Not sure if posted before.



https://www.nj.com/hudson/2019/02/re...anning-ok.html

By Terrence T. McDonald | The Jersey Journal
JERSEY CITY — Two high-rises slated for the same block near Journal Square were approved by the Jersey City Planning Board Tuesday night over the objections of a group of neighbors who say they fear increased traffic and parking problems.

The projects — 32 Oakland Ave. and 345 Baldwin Ave. — will include a total of 413 units and 202 parking spaces. They will sit on either end of a block that runs along Washburn Street, about a quarter-mile east of the Journal Square PATH transit hub.

...

Supporters of the projects say they will help bring more life to the neighborhood. Critics say real estate development in the Journal Square area is coming at too fast a pace, with thousands of units planned for construction in the next few years.

A Denville company is behind the Oakland building, which will have 15 stories. Diego Hodara of Titanium Realty Group is behind the 13-story Baldwin project. Requests for comment from their attorneys were not immediately returned.

Keeping under 50 percent. Please read the full article at the link above.

It's nice to see Journal Square gets it. I don't know why developers even bother downtown with all the fighting the neighborhood associations.

https://jerseydigs.com/village-neigh...t-jersey-city/

Come to Journal Square and get more bang for your buck.

[C.]

Threads are up!

345 Baldwin
32 Oakland

[C.]

Big news this time!

A little birdie told me 30 Journal Square will breakground later this year. It will be the second tallest in Jersey City, falling just 51 feet short of the title if this birdie is correct. Very exciting news coming out of Journal Square these days. I wonder if KABR is proceeding without Kushner or if there has been any other changes in ownership for the site?

[Hamilton]

Originally Posted by C.

A mysterious Journal Square tower can be found here.

https://www.scottmahaffeyarchitect.c...tower-proposal

I bet it's 693-701 Newark Avenue
https://jerseydigs.com/proposed-deve...ottage-street/
https://jerseydigs.com/canbis-dream-...e-jersey-city/

Yes, it is.

[Hamilton]

So KRE/Silverstein's plans for the Kennedy Blvd assemblage on the current site of the RiteAid/McDonalds/Journal Sq Pub have grown. They now propose at least three 50-60 story towers. Again, they say it's contingent on long-term tax abatements.

Another 25-story tower is being proposed for Summit about half a block north of Five Corners. It's as-of-right.

Also an 11-story tower is being proposed near the Puccini's site and an 11-story hotel/resi combo building near Route 139 (I know more, but can't give out any more details on these projects right now).

[C.]

Originally Posted by Hamilton

So KRE/Silverstein's plans for the Kennedy Blvd assemblage on the current site of the RiteAid/McDonalds/Journal Sq Pub have grown. They now propose at least three 50-60 story towers. Again, they say it's contingent on long-term tax abatements.

Another 25-story tower is being proposed for Summit about half a block north of Five Corners. It's as-of-right.

Also an 11-story tower is being proposed near the Puccini's site and an 11-story hotel/resi combo building near Route 139 (I know more, but can't give out any more details on these projects right now).

Thanks for the info Hamilton.

I also noticed that the city has updated the development maps
https://us.ftp.opendatasoft.com/anal...%201.30.19.pdf
https://us.ftp.opendatasoft.com/anal...%201.30.19.pdf
https://us.ftp.opendatasoft.com/anal...%201.30.19.pdf

Looks like they're missing a few.

[chris08876]

Construction Update: 159 Morgan Street




Credit: Jersey Digs

[chris08876]

Construction Update: 321 Warren Street




Credit: Michael Young via NYY

[chris08876]

Renderings Revealed, Ground Broken at 100 Water Street in Jersey City

The totals for the entirety of the project are impressive: 621 residential units, 29,086 square feet of retail, and 373 structured parking spaces. The residential units, intended as rentals, break down as 126 studios, 308 one bedrooms, and 187 two bedrooms. A phasing plan was approved by the planning board in January of this year, which was a precursor to construction activity that is humming along at the property.

Jersey Digs has uncovered renderings of the project’s first phase, which is designed by Minno Wasko of Lambertville, N.J. Phase I of 100 Water Street has actually been divided into two separate phases of its own, the first part of which consists of constructing a five-story building containing a total of 145 residential units and 123 parking spaces.

A total of 8,346 square feet of commercial space will be split among the first phase’s six storefronts, with four of them measuring 850 square feet. The largest retail spot, on the corner of Clarke and Bennett Avenues, will clock in at 3,625 square feet, while the final storefront will consist of 1,321 square feet.

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JERSEY DIGS

[C.]

There is a 70 floor, 741 foot building proposed for 444 Washington Blvd. It's called the Tower at Avalon Cove. Some of the existing structures will remain, but one will be demolished to make way for the new tower.