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Newark Update from Brandon Nagle

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great updates, glad to see so much going on in Newark.

Small Newark Update from Brandon Nagle

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New Jersey Performing Arts Center

The parking lot in the back will soon be replaced with a Hotel and Conference Center. It will likely be in the 20-something story range, and the size of the conference center is unknown. The site is quite large and directly adjacent to the NJPAC Light Rail station (Served in both directions), so it could easily handle a very large conference center. The project is still in the conceptual massing stage, so it will still be several years away. NJPAC was always designed as part of an arts district with it catalyzing numerous new buildings adjacent to it.

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Shaq's tower at 40 Rector Street will actually break ground in the Summer, according to Schreiber. He was quite hopeful of that, having been in conversation with them about it. It will actually benefit NJPAC's projects by being a part of the larger arts district, which would be more inviting.

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NJPAC's tower was originally supposed to be 44 stories high, but was cut in half because they could never work out the financing. As a 22 story tower with 244 apartments, it will cost $106 Million. It received a $33 Million Transit Hub tax credit and $12 Million in funding through the rental car tax from the airport. With private financing, it is now 100% funded. It will now officially break ground in 6 weeks from today, which would be around May 15th, which is mid-spring, as previously reported. I specifically asked Schreiber about the 30 day deadline given during the Economic Development town hall meeting, and he says that they were given the wrong information. Many of the recent delays relate to the redesign of the building, specifically the recent change of an entire floor from market rate to more affordable apartments. The market rate apartments will be about the most expensive ones in Newark, with the exception of the large units in Packard Lofts and Eleven80 Raymond. The project will take 2 years to complete.

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Prudential Tower

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That mysterious green wall. Each section has an individual planter with the plants already in place. The vines should quickly cover the fences and create a huge wall of leafy greenery, one of the largest in the state. Black hoses can be seen for the irrigation system.

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The second external elevator location has been almost completely covered. You can see the mounting brackets for the Prudential Logo signage.

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NJIT is in the process of a large building spree. The Gateway project is not included because of the difficulties involving Saint Michael's Medical Center, which is a partner in the project. They are looking to get themselves purchased by a large hospital operator, so it is unknown if they will have any investing power at all. Instead, they are looking at several smaller "campus gateway" projects in the form of renovating a large building by I-280 on Orange Avenue into apartments and installing sculptures in several locations. Also, they are building the 950 space, 7 level parking garage and a $100 Million events center for sporting events. That was kicked off due to the huge need to concentrate the parking on campus, and to create a proper 4500 seat gymnasium for the basketball team, which has recently won several major games and beating all odds, specifically against a number of unbeatable teams.

A third project is the construction of a "Life Sciences and Engineering Center" between the existing parking deck and the Environmental Engineering building. I have know hope for the architecture and like the existing building, I would not be surprised if it does everything except stick up its middle finger to the Martin Luther King Boulevard side of the site. The site slopes down about 20 feet, which the other building responded to by having 20 feet of solid vertical wall before the first windows, a move that characterizes the entire remainder of the campus's outer perimeter. The project will cost an abnormally low $13.5 Million (The Honors Dorm and Greek Village, although larger, cost over $80 Million), with $5.5 Million more spent on lab equipment.

This is the conceptual massing from the Vector student newspaper.

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It will replace the surface lot on the right side, but must maintain access to the offices on the side of the Parking Garage. NJIT's Bursar's, Financial Aid, and Registrar's offices are located down there, with no usable alternative entrance, as well as one of the two entrances to the "Student Mall" computer labs. The other is on MLK Boulevard (itself seen in the background of the image) and is rarely used. For an idea of the difference between campus interior and outer perimeter entrances, The parking deck has two pedestrian entrances. One is by the vehicle entrance on the Summit Street side and does not have a door. between outside and inside. It was removed because of the hassle of holding it open, particularly in the wind. The other side, on MLK, has a side entrance and a narrow meandering path leading to it. You can see it in the far corner of the parking deck. You have to swipe your NJIT ID card to get in or out there (which has an override that sets of an alarm and releases after 15 seconds in case of an emergency). The same applies to Weston Hall and the GITC building, which both have campus interior and street-side doors. The Honors Residence that was recently constructed requires a card swipe from both sides, and fake card swipers were added to the convenience store and pizza restaurant entrances. The convenience store's Warren Street side door locks 3 hours before the store closes, forcing you to walk around to the back from 10 pm to 1 am. With this mindset, expect a walled off monstrosity from all three of NJIT's imminent expansion projects.

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A college for the future: Rutgers proposes massive makeover for Newark campus

By Kelly Heyboer | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on April 03, 2015 at 7:25 AM, updated April 03, 2015 at 10:16 AM

NEWARK — Rutgers-Newark's jumble of crowded streets and aging buildings would be replaced by a pedestrian-friendly campus with modern classrooms and free wifi under a new plan presented by university officials yesterday.

The campus makeover is part of Rutgers' new physical master plan, a long-term outline for the future of the state university's land and buildings.

http://www.nj.com/education/2015/04/...l#incart_river

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First architectural elevations for Express Newark project released

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KSS Architects of Princeton has provided this rendering of the second floor lobby for Express Newark. (Courtesy KSS)

By Dan Bischoff | For The Star-Ledger
on April 03, 2015 at 3:00 PM, updated April 03, 2015 at 3:03 PM

The office of Rutgers University Newark Chancellor Nancy Cantor has released the first architects' renderings of the planned interior of Express Newark, the new academic arts center and commercial development planned for the old Hahne & Co. department store on Broad St. next to Military Park.

The computer-generated images show a stripped-down space punctuated by glass curtain walls and decorated by out-sized signage and funky sculpture. (One image includes Jeff Koons's gold-chrome "Balloon Dog" filling out a two-story-tall gallery space, like the Koons "Rabbit" in the New School lobby in Manhattan.)

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/arts...press_new.html

Ironbound update

-New York Avenue project was approved for 55 units with day care
-Ferry/Magazine Street project was approved for 89 units

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Downtown Newark Update from Brandon Nagle

Teacher's Village
One store is complete (Provident Bank)
One clothing store will open next week
Several others will open in a month or two
The rest will begin work once they receive the dozens of permits. Each store has a handful of permits to get.
All completed apartments are fully leased, 70% to teachers. Not all of them are Newark teachers
The development has 60 occupied units, but only 15 cars regularly park there.

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Building on Halsey Street and Academy Street corner that is being slowly renovated

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New Street will be closed to traffic, continuing the pedestrian plaza to Broad Street and Military Park.

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New Prudential Tower

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Hahne's Building (Whole Foods, 50,000 sq ft Rutgers space, possible NJIT book store, 160 apartments)

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Washington Park will receive a near future renovation.

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15 Washington

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Cablevision Office and Garage

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Downtown Newark Projects List , Source Brandon Nagle

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1) NJPAC Tower, 22 floors/242 units, Mid-May groundbreaking confirmed by NJPAC CEO

2) Shaq Tower, 23 or 25 floors/169 units, Summer 2015 real groundbreaking confirmed by NJPAC CEO

3) Maker's Village, $30 Million Vertical Farm, 1 month to start

4)15 Washington Street, Renovation for 350 students, now underway

5) New Prudential Tower, completion in Summer

6) Hahne's Building, Renovation of existing building underway now, 6-8 story extension on Halsey/New Street corner, 160 units

7) Teacher's Village 17 William Street, 81 units on 6-7 floors, piling underway

8)Teacher's Village 243 Halsey Street, 63 units on 6 floors, half complete

9)101? Market Street by RBH Group, 13 floors of apartments designed by Richard Meier, Fall or Winter 2015 Groundbreaking

10) Paramount Theater project, 16 floors of apartments and a hotel designed by Frank Gehry, 300 units shared with 101 Market Street, Fall or Winter 2015 Groundbreaking

11) Baxter Park Phase II, 300 units in 4 buildings, Summer Groundbreaking

12) Springfield Marketplace (Shoprite), 165 units on 5 floors, topped out

13)Montgomery Heights Phase II, 154 units on 5 floors, imminent start

14)Somerset Brownstones, 60 units in 4 buildings, imminent start

15) Matrix Development site near Penn Station, 220 units, imminent start

16)New Horizons Senior Housing at Irvine Turner Blvd and Muhammad Ali Ave, 150 units in 10 story building and others, Perhaps 1 year away

17)Rutgers-Newark Honors Housing, 300+ units, 1-2 years from now

18) NJPAC Hotel and Conference Center, 20+ floors, 2 years+

More Downtown Newark from Brandon Nagle

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RBH's Four Corners project will consist of 2 simultaneously constructed buildings that will together house 300 mostly market-rate apartments. The buildings are being designed now, will cost $100 Million each, and will likely break ground by the end of 2015. Both buildings will have underground parking, but not much. Instead, there will likely by a valet system to the other RBH owned lots. They own 79 properties that were purchased for $130 Million.
One will be next to the RBH Office. It will reach from the garage to the edge of 89 Market Street. It will be designed by Richard Meier and rise 13 stories high with ground floor retail.

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The second will be 16 stories high and will by designed by Frank Gehry. It will also contain a hotel and some office space, and will somehow incorporate the facade of the Paramount Theater, and replace the buildings seen to the right of it. It will also break ground by the end of the year.

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Site of 300+ unit Honors Residence

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Harrison Update

Riverbend Blocks E & F

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Riverbend Block E:

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Riverbend Block F:

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Between the main entrance and exit streets of the Riverbend district will be a pocket park with public sculptures/artwork (Russo Development's Block C/Vermella building rising in the background)

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El Pastor restaurant on Market/Polk Street, in front of Riverbank Park was demolished last week. Large mixed use property (50-60+ units) will be going up.

This is very close to the huge empty lot on Polk and Clover Street that a major development is in the planning stages. I've heard over 200 units.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...&postcount=600

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Ready to move? Why Newark - yes, Newark - might be N.J.'s next hot neighborhood

By Kathryn Brenzel | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on April 13, 2015 at 10:30 AM, updated April 13, 2015 at 1:06 PM

NEWARK--The Brick City is next.

This seems to be the general consensus among some experts and politicians looking to peg the newest up-and-coming urban area in New Jersey. The ingredients are there: Access to mass transit, new massive development projects and the appeal of rents significantly cheaper than Manhattan.

http://www.nj.com/realestate-news/20...g_you_n_2.html

A Look at the Rutgers-Newark Master Plan

http://www.njtvonline.org/news/video...k-master-plan/

Newark Update from Brandon Nagle

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Biotrials

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The Charter School for Performing and Visual Arts

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Soil bearing capacity testing has started for NJIT's Life Sciences Center on Monday and Tuesday. They also tested several locations at the site of the new 950 space garage last Thursday and Friday. Both are supposed to start construction sometime in the summer.

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Baxter Park installed a nice new sculpture. There are still no signs of Phase 2 work.

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Prudential Tower

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Hahne's Building

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BURG restaurant in Military Park. Will open Memorial Day Weekend

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15 Washington. Penthouse/cupola scaffolding removed. Some external corner work and a lot of interior work continues.

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Cablevision Garage

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Good and bad news for Harrison PATH riders awaiting new station
By Steve Strunsky | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on April 21, 2015 at 4:58 PM, updated April 21, 2015 at 5:47 PM

HARRISON — For Timothy Braddock, a media company engineer waiting for a train to New York at the Harrison PATH station, the sooner the 80-year-old station is scrapped for a planned $256 million replacement the better.

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2..._harrison.html

Downtown Newark Update for 4.21.15 from Brandon Nagle

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Shop-Rite apartments are topped out

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Prudential Tower

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Teacher's Village

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Halsey Street side has reached its full height. The back half will rise another 2 floors.

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Replacement of the Calumet Building.

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15 Washington

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Cablevision Garage (490 Broad Street)

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Corner of James Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard will soon have a 5 story apartment building with a ground floor retail store and the adjacent 3 story brick building will be renovated. 77 apartments in all. This project was to be a part of the NJIT Gateway Project, so I guess it would count as Phase 2 (Honors dorm was phase 1.) The Gateway plan from 2007 describes it on pages 23 and 24. The actual project will be far different.
http://gateway.njit.edu/gateway/file...ptual-plan.pdf
The public notice board is a result of the new zoning ordinance called NZLUR and pronounced "NUZZ-LER"

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Ironbound - Newark Update for 4.21.15 from Brandon Nagle

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Two sites on either side of New York Avenue, between Pacific and Jefferson Streets, will soon have new 2 or 3 family houses built. Lets see how they will respond to Box and Beyond. Neither one can meet the wall of the adjacent house because of the side windows. Small older houses were recently removed from both sites.

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Oliver Street school is moving along well.

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Apartment building at Railroad Avenue and Elm Street

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76-80 Bruen Street

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Carvi Hotel Site

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Polk Street Mixed Use site

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Future Site of Apartments at 570 Market Street

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Newark airport monorail targeted for scrap heap, cost $354M to build

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The Port Authority is planning to replace the AirTrain monorail at Newark Liberty International Airport, which links EWR to an NJ Transit station on the Northeast Corridor Line. (Jerry McCrea | The Star-Ledger)

By Steve Strunsky | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
Email the author | Follow on Twitter
on April 27, 2015 at 2:02 PM, updated April 27, 2015 at 7:27 PM

NEWARK — The 19-year-old AirTrain monorail system at Newark Liberty International Airport is being targeted for replacement.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has not publicly estimated the cost of a new system, or said when it expected the project to begin or end. But Port Authority commissioners are scheduled to vote Thursday to authorize spending $40 million on planning consultants for the project, plus another $30 million on technical experts.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/201...l#incart_river

Harrison

from WYN user West Hudson

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300 Middlesex FER Facade

Scaffolding final came down to reveal the look of 300 Middlesex along FER (minus paneling & louvers):

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A pitch for business Red Bulls focused on new partnerships at Harrison arena

By Joshua Burd, March 23, 2015 at 3:00 AM

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Suites at Red Bull Arena are all-inclusive, making them hassle-free for corporate partners. - (PHOTO BY AARON HOUSTON)

For the New York Red Bulls, it was a landmark deal in more ways than one.

With their season just underway, the soccer club in March unveiled a marketing partnership with the Japanese heavy equipment maker Yanmar. Not only was it the largest sponsorship deal in club history — it marked the first time another company will have its name on the team's training jerseys and a permanent sign inside Red Bull Arena.

“It's big for us to allow that, because we only select very few partners to be co-branded with Red Bull in our building,” said Marc de Grandpre, the club's general manager. “So it speaks to the synergies between the cultural values of the company.”

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Newark-phobic no more: Outsiders need to see city's business promise, locals say

By Jessica Mazzola | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
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on May 04, 2015 at 8:39 AM, updated May 04, 2015 at 8:51 AM

NEWARK — Would you open a business in Newark?

Plenty of people have said, "no." WalletHub, an finance website that creates nationwide rankings, recently named the city the worst one in the country to start a business. Earlier this year, the site said Newark was one of the worst places to find a job.

But, business owners and organizations in the city say those rankings are based on Newark's reputation – not what's actually happening downtown.

"This ranking is not just wrong, it's dead wrong," Otis Rolley, the President and CEO of the Newark Community Economic Development Corporation, said in a statement to NJ Advance Media.

http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/20...see_citys.html

Ironbound Update from Brandon Nagle

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76-80 Bruen Street, designed by the firm who did the building next door.

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Railroad Avenue and Elm Street project

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Carvi Hotel site is still untouched. As far as I know, they never applied for tax credits. Instead, the zoning set a 5 story height limit across the
Ironbound (8 stories nearer to Penn Station), and this is supposed to be 6 floors, but will only be slightly taller than the adjacent building by the same firm.

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Polk Street project

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Polk and Market Street project, which is likely an environmental remediation site without any typical signage.

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Market Street gasworks environmental remediation is complete.

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A new retail store will go into the left bay of this building, which was renovated at least 2 years ago.

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Proposed Marriott AC Hotel in Harrison

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New hotel to join waterfront district in Harrison

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A rendering of the AC Hotel planned for the Riverbend District in Harrison. (Photo courtesy of Advance Realty)

By Kathryn Brenzel | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on May 18, 2015 at 1:01 PM, updated May 18, 2015 at 2:03 PM

HARRISON—A New Jersey-based developer plans to include a hotel as part of its efforts to transform 35-acres in Harrison.

Advance Realty announced that an AC Hotel by Marriott will join the Riverbend District, the developer's 35-acre redevelopment project in southern Harrison. The district is part of the town's plans to recast itself as a commercial and residential hub, largely through 250 acres along the Passaic River.

"The addition of AC Hotels by Marriott to the Riverbend District will be a key component in the continued development and enhancement of a dynamic destination in Harrison," Peter Cocoziello, president of Advance Realty, said in a statement. "The AC Hotel will benefit area corporations by accommodating business travel and will add to the variety of dining and entertainment options for Riverbend residents and visitors."

Pic taken by me.

We can also see prudential on the left, and Newark's two tallest in the center. Pic was taken from Rutgers Newark.

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Newark officials, developers break ground on $174M Hahne's revitalization project
http://www.njbiz.com/article/2015060...zation-project

Mini Newark Update from Kevlar Ewr over on WNY

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Rooftop garden being installed on Prudential garage

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Green wall on the garage

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They re-did the front on the old value plus building - it previously had 3 entrances, now it has been redone to one (maybe a large tenant moving in?)

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Pilings for the Hanes low rise

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Officials laud new privately funded housing on former Newark factory site

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A fresh start: In Newark, developers see demand for new units
June 9, 2015 at 7:30 AM

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60 Nevada in Newark, an affordable housing development by RPM Development Group. - (Photo / AARON HOUSTON)

It was late April when RPM Development marked the opening of its newest apartment building in downtown Newark, known as 60 Nevada, but roughly half of its 75 units had already been leased by the time executives and city officials gathered for the ceremonial ribbon-cutting. If you ask Joe Portelli, that came as no surprise.

“That’s not uncommon for Newark,” said Portelli, vice president of development at the Montclair-based firm. “There’s a tremendous demand for high-quality affordable units here. … A lot of people come from nearby, people who are in town looking to upgrade their housing. And I think that you’ll find that there’s a lot of affordable housing in Newark, but the difference is quality that’s safe, that’s clean.”

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A few more updates for the Ironbound: 60 Elm Street is going before the board on Thursday for a 7-8 story building with 15 units? This is right before NJ RR Avenue and across the street from the Lopez development of 70+ apartments. Some residents may be against this because it is too tall compared to other buildings nearby.

188-192 Wilson Avenue/Jabez, CPB will be hearing a proposal for a renovation/construction to turn lots 30, 31 and 32 into a bank/apartments and parking lot.

Harrison Construction Updatefrom West Hudson on WNY

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200 Middlesex
Heavy demo should be starting this week with equipment having arrived. Here's one last look at the rinky-dink buildings that will be replaced with a massive structure of 5-8 stories in the coming years.

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300 Middlesex
Alot of metallic panelling has gone up in the past few weeks, as well as the first balcony railing.

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221 Bergen
Stucco work is just about complete on the first building and stone installation began on Friday.

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1100 FER South
Masonry work is practically complete on two of the four sides of the building and has started on the rear (facing Red Bull Arena). Precast planters have been placed and an elevated sidewalk (similar to what we have in Harrison Commons) is taking shape along FER.

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1200 FER South
Work continues on raising the site to comply with flood plane guidelines.

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127 Bergen
Excavation of the foundations is taking place.

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100-102 Harrison Ave
Construction should be progressing to the third floor by the end of the week.

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New Decorative Rail at Element
Love this artistic new pedestrian barrier...not sure if this is the only place it will be installed but I think it would be great if the town replaced the banners on FER south of the PATH station with something like this.

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'A dream come true': Developers break ground on Newark 'vertical farm'
"This is a very important moment for the city of Newark, for the state of New Jersey, for the planet, for humanity," said David Rosenberg, CEO of Aerofarms, the company that will call the building home.

Once completed, the 69,000-square foot building will house rows and rows of so-called "skyscrapers" - small towers filled with soil beds that will produce about two million pounds of green vegetables and herbs each year.

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North Carolina energy company moving headquarters to Newark
Lime Energy did not disclose exactly when the move will take place, or how many jobs it might add in Newark. The new headquarters will be located at Three Gateway Center, next to Newark Penn Station.

In a statement, president and CEO Adam Procell said Newark would provide the company with "great connectivity" to other Northeast cities, as well as access to higher education and a talented workforce.

"This move allows us to continue 'walking the walk' in our commitment to sustainability and to supporting the communities where we work and live," he said.