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Three-Tower Megaproject Coming to Jersey City Waterfront

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Image via Mack Cali

Actually the tallest of these buildings only end up measuring to somewhere in the 900 foot zone. It's 100 feet shy of 1,000 feet.

Are you sure? I would imagine that 3 roughly 70-floor residential buildings in JC would be around 700-800 ft. max. We're talking rental buildings here, so no super-high ceilings or anything like that.

There are also two 80-floor rental buildings in Journal Square, a separate 67 floor rental building in Journal Square, and the developers of the three 70-floor towers have a massive amount of adjacent land that they want to develop. They could build a dozen towers on that site.

Can you imagine if they build a dozen roughly 70-floor towers? That side of the Hudson will be insane.

Thats kind of ugly...

What is up with the name? Height sounds promising, not so sure about those renderings though...

It looks a little weird , the blocks are all over the place..

Some of them would most certainly soar over 1,000 feet.

So basically a similar thing to the ghastly but thankfully failed Museum Plaza from Louisville? Yeah, no thanks.

These Jersey City proposals are always exciting - the area continues to become a hot-spot, especially among the young Manhattan working crowd. I'm keeping an open mind with respect to the design. Those renders seem very preliminary and I'm sure more detailed ones will emerge.

Three messy, deconstructivist-lite tall towers will mar the JC skyline. I hope they come up with something better, and those are just placeholders. More traditional looking towers like GS, Merrill, and Trump look so much better than these.

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Looks like the stacks of books that are scattered all over my apartment!

Yeah these can improve.

Map location - http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/map...92635&z=17&t=k

More info - http://www.mack-cali.com/development-urban-ready-living

I remember a proposal very similar to this one in that area of Jersey City, but the name of it escapes me right now. It'll come back...

I think it was that Koolhaas(Sp?) proposal........

Journal Square?

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I'm in the minority in that I actually think those renders look decent, although a little less grey and a little more metallic texture would be nice.

love the height and density, hate the renderings.

Disgusting looking proposal and stupid name. Seems like a fantasy proposal too. :cool:

I like the phase two of 70-90 Columbus with the two 48 floor towers much better. Seems much more realistic and is much better looking.

Jersey City deserves better than this.

This is breaking ground very shortly.

I think they're building one tower at a time, but not 100% sure. Still, three 70 floor towers will definitely change the skyline west of the Hudson.

And the overall project could eventually be much, much bigger. Mack-Cali owns adjacent land that had been planned for office towers, but demand in Jersey City has shifted in favor of highrise residential. They could eventually have a dozen or so residential towers along the waterfront.

I want JC to resemble Kowloon. NYC's ancillary skylines have always been so small (relatively), but JC will hopefully be adding the Journal Square supertalls eventually as well.

if you have a taste for commieblocks :haha:

Exactly how I feel about these. That mismatched jagged boxes look is already looking dated.

Ill take this design over three boxes with blue glass.

These seem like great looking towers. The hate they are getting her is quite perplexing to me. Sometimes I feel like a narrative is established by a person in a thread and then everyone decides they want to join in thoughtlessly. I suspect people will be pleased if the materials are above average.

No, they're getting disliked because folk have different tastes. Personally I really dislike the recent trend for building mismatched boxes stacked on top. I cringe whenever a rendering for a building shows them. In my opinion the look will quickly become very dated, that it will not matter how good a quality the materials used are. Had nobody else on this thread mentioned a dislike, I still would have my tastes and posted my dislike of the look.

Just a matter of how they implement the design. I don't think there's anything wrong with it. But it will look like either a stack of books, or a nice addition to the skyline.


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http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesi...ower-the-shard

Maybe this is the one I was thinking about...
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=126370

The Koolhaas design is on a separate site, to the north, and is on hold.

My wild guess is that we get a big tower on that site relatively soon, but not by Koolhaas. His designs are very expensive to implement, and not really ideal for rentals (which is probably the most lucrative market in Jersey City right now).

Yeah, the design is what came to mind when looking at the other towers.


Stacked cubes, but larger...


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http://resources.mack-cali.com/image...z=2012-08-20-1

what if in the future jersey city looked liked manhattan

Just the Waterfront everything else would have a Jersey City feel to it.

Some new renderings
http://resources.mack-cali.com/pdf/d...Renderings.pdf

The base

http://imageshack.us/a/img402/2677/urlbase.jpg


The tower (obviuosly, not very good rendering, Iguess the final result will be better)

http://imageshack.us/a/img441/6162/urltower.jpg

The Ground Floor of Phase 1

http://imageshack.us/a/img42/9462/urlgroundfllorph1.jpg


The terrace level of Phases 1 and 2

http://imageshack.us/a/img822/9375/urlterrace.jpg

It seems that just as the other three-tower development in JC, The Journal Square Towers, this one is also groundbreaking this year with the first tower

URL Harborside: Work to Begin This Year
http://www.globest.com/news/12_720/n...li-339013.html

WOW!:D Jersey City is on fire! It will be interesting to watch the towers rise and evolve based on the interesting design seen in their renders. To me, the design has the potential to be good - reminds me of 56 Leonard almost.:righton:

Jeez what a weird looking project. Why not make something beautiful, why this stacked box design?

http://www.rew-online.com/2014/01/14...artment-tower/

Less is more as work starts on New Jersey’s tallest apartment tower


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By REW Staff
January 14, 2014




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Very messy. There are better rental buildings out there. See 388 Bridge Street

Does anyone know the FAR of this development? What was the history that permitted them to be built?

yuck. Would rather they build the clock tower in mecca in JC then this.

The yellow crowns are a cheesy touch.

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This is going to be three identical 713-foot buildings? Wow, will make a big difference on the west side of the Hudson riverfront.

The developer (Mack-Cali) owns all the surrounding lots too, and they've decided to shift from office to residential, so I assume this whole part of Jersey City will eventually become a forest of tall, bulky residential towers like these three.

I have the same question. Are they counting the three towers as one, or is only one of the towers being built at the present time? BTW, it disturbs me greatly that I recognized who the mayor of Jersey City was in that photo only because of Christie Bridgegate. lol

^ You gotta love Jersey.

Just the first tower of the three is getting built now, I don't know the timeline of the other two, which will connect to this one by skybridge.



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The pace of construction in Jersey City is nuts. There are two other highrises that went from dirt lots to about 5-7 stories and growing in the last 6 months. I don't think they have threads on here.

Jersey City (at least the waterfront) seems to be nothing but highrises or empty/parking lots. This will go up in the lot to the north of 5 Harborside Financial Center, there's another sizable lot to the South for a future Tower 4, and to the West is another parking lot as wide as, and longer than Tower 5 currently is. It seems like there's a frenzy to put up the next tall luxury high rise or office building in these lots.

Maybe in a few years the waterfront will actually have a more residential community vibe compared to the sterile office towers and near-vacant boulevards now.

The design is pretty good - it will be nice to watch this rise from Battery Park.

They have very mild/slight differences. It will take a long time with the phases. I wish they could just build it all at once.

Yea Jersey City I predict will see many more large scale developments. Its a refugee camp in away for people who don't wanna pay Manhattan Prices. Its still expensive, but JC offers more SqFt at a cheaper rate. That will change though as more projects go up.

I may or may not have heard of a 100-story tower in the works across the Hudson. ;)

I'm surprised there isn't more demand in Jersey to be honest (unless there is and I'm not seeing it) especially with the WTC transit hub opening soon, I would figure more and more people would view Jersey as a desirable place to live.

I personally would love to see towers go up in downtown Newark NJ. That city has arguably the best location for dozens of new projects to spring up. Penn Station Newark is all you need. Plus its a shit ton cheaper to live in that JC. Anyways, not to go off topic, but just food for thought.