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chris08876 Sep 27, 2017 3:53 PM
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Originally Posted by CIA (Post 7934790)
I thought about going to the planning meeting -- went to get a few beers and overpriced food in Hoboken instead. lol
Have to avoid the Hoboken bars. Rip offs. I don't mind paying over 10 for a drink, but it better be very strong and not watered down. Avoid the bars were everyone goes too and are packed. Those tend to be the rip-offs and garbage bars. The local ones, on the side streets, are the best IMO.

If your ever in Newark, stop by McGoverns. Best bar in all of NJ.

Hamilton Sep 28, 2017 2:22 AM
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Originally Posted by citybooster (Post 7934516)
Hopefully after tonight's Planning Board meeting, someone can give us a definitive number for the heights, be it actually 849 ft. or 758ft, also counting the 91 ft elevation. Generally not a fan of cantilevered stuff but it looks a bit more interesting than the original plans.
What I posted above are the official drawings submitted to the planning board. Doesn't get more definitive than that.

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The appearance of waves and undulations on each stack really stand out in a positive way and I like the parapet.
Unfortunately, as someone said, the waves are from the paper. The drawings were huge and hard to flatten out. Sorry for that! The design actually involves three flat rectangular tower sections that rotate as they go up, like steps on a spiral staircase.

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$5 we see another design change and planning board meeting.... am I wrong?
I wouldn't bet against you. This must be some kind of record for site plan approvals from the planning board

citybooster Sep 28, 2017 3:03 AM
Thank you for the update, Hamilton... 758 ft is a bit shorter than I like but two at that height along with Journal Squared's second and largest tower at 759 ft will add substantial height to the skyline nonetheless. I do still like the design though I'm glad you cleared up the curves thing... would have looked really nice with little twists and waves, though to give it a bit more snap.

C. Sep 28, 2017 3:29 AM
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2...ive_plann.html

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Terrence T. McDonald | The Jersey Journal

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

C. Sep 28, 2017 3:33 AM
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2...ive_plann.html

Revised plans for One Journal Square, the $800 million, two-tower Kushner Companies project slated for a plot of land outside the Journal Square PATH hub, were approved unanimously by the Jersey City Planning Board last night.

"It's about time we got something built in Journal Square," said board member Arnold Bettinger, a former councilman in the area.

"We need to get this done," said board member Orlando Gonzalez. "I've seen I don't know how many iterations of this."

The project received approval from the Planning Board in August 2016. Those plans have been revised and now include two 56-story towers on top of a 10-story podium and housing a total of 1,512 residential units plus retail and office space. The towers will rise 758 feet high.

Jon Baker, who lives on Newark Avenue, said he has views of the two Trump towers to the east and will have views of Kushner's One Journal Square to the west.

"My concern is that two more Minecraft obelisks to autocracy will not only be damaging to our community's psyche, they're also going to lower our property and resale values," Baker said. "They'll be eyesores, constant reminders of western civilization in decline and as a result damaging to the mental health of our great city's immigrant community."

citybooster Sep 28, 2017 11:42 AM
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Originally Posted by CIA (Post 7935627)
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2...ive_plann.html

Revised plans for One Journal Square, the $800 million, two-tower Kushner Companies project slated for a plot of land outside the Journal Square PATH hub, were approved unanimously by the Jersey City Planning Board last night.

"It's about time we got something built in Journal Square," said board member Arnold Bettinger, a former councilman in the area.

"We need to get this done," said board member Orlando Gonzalez. "I've seen I don't know how many iterations of this."

The project received approval from the Planning Board in August 2016. Those plans have been revised and now include two 56-story towers on top of a 10-story podium and housing a total of 1,512 residential units plus retail and office space. The towers will rise 758 feet high.

Jon Baker, who lives on Newark Avenue, said he has views of the two Trump towers to the east and will have views of Kushner's One Journal Square to the west.

"My concern is that two more Minecraft obelisks to autocracy will not only be damaging to our community's psyche, they're also going to lower our property and resale values," Baker said. "They'll be eyesores, constant reminders of western civilization in decline and as a result damaging to the mental health of our great city's immigrant community."
Jon Baker can shut his piehole... oh, we've got to hold his hand, it's too much a monument to autocracy to handle...what pretentious, entitled manure! Even frakking Rich Boggiano is on board on this...and as if the weed and garbage infested huge empty lot wasn't eyesore enough, THESE towers would constitute an eyesore???????? What a joke! They're actually a significant improvement looking at these collective renderings from the one voted through last year... PLEASE just come January, 2018...let's get this done!!!

Busy Bee Sep 28, 2017 1:01 PM
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"They'll be eyesores, constant reminders of western civilization in decline and as a result damaging to the mental health of our great city's immigrant community."
Wait...what?

Look I think Jared is a creepy crooked son of a bitch, that like his wife and father-in-law, has no business in the WH, but as far as this being what this author claims...? GMAFB

limak116 Sep 28, 2017 6:10 PM
I think the new design is fugly. But if it means them FINALLY building something here... I'll take it.

C. Sep 28, 2017 6:22 PM
I just don't believe it -- too many times I've gotten excited and nothing.

Busy Bee Sep 28, 2017 10:21 PM
http://image.nj.com/home/njo-media/w...26e26f9175.jpg
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Why they felt they needed to improve on this is beyond me...

aquablue Sep 28, 2017 11:46 PM
The old facade looked horrible. It almost seemed modular in nature and cheap with those oversize frames around the windows. I bet it wouldn't have come out well at all.

Good for NJ avoiding a tower that stinks of Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn. New one is bland but more elegant and the cantilevers give it something extra.

C. Jan 24, 2018 1:42 AM
Financing is now in place

https://www.barrons.com/articles/for...ect-1516726648

citybooster Jan 24, 2018 2:32 AM
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Originally Posted by CIA (Post 8058284)
Is it too early to finally start celebrating? So many false starts with this project as well all too well know!

C. Jan 26, 2018 3:33 AM
I personally wouldn't mind seeing one more redesign. There must have been twenty approvals at the planning board over there years for this single project. What's one more?

citybooster Jan 26, 2018 7:14 AM
I actually preferred the redesign with the cantilevers to the previous one... only wish they had pushed the FAA and kept them close to 900 ft, and not back off to 758ft. Without We Works and a real office component though, the extra floors aren't really necessary... over 1,500 apartments would still make this a huge project. Hopefully by this spring sometime, we can finally have groundbreaking instead of excuses. With the second of the KRE rival Kushner family development in back of the transit station which will be 71 stories and 759 ft in height... wouldn't it be fantastic to have 3 buildings over over 750 ft going up at the same time so close to each other? Soon we could be seeing a nice cluster of skyscrapers in the heart of the city, instead of all the growth being downtown or right along the waterfront. I won't bet the ranch, but the chances something could happen soon are at least a good possibility now, much better odds than we thought a few months back.

chris08876 Feb 15, 2018 2:40 AM
Politics Still Shrouds One Journal Square As Kushner Cos. Plans to Move Forward

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One Journal Square, the stalled Kushner Companies development was expected to join Journal Squared sometime in 2018. But continued financial delays and political woes have kept the project in limbo.

To recap, One Journal Square, then a 57-story mixed-use development, was approved by the Jersey City Planning Board in 2015. But the project became embroiled in controversy when representatives of Kushner Companies were reported as soliciting funding for the project from Chinese investors under the EB-5 visa program. The tactic was seen as the Kushner family leveraging their connection to the Trump administration; Jared Kushner is Trump’s son-in-law and a Senior White House adviser. As reported by Jersey Digs, “The legal, although ironic tactic given the company’s connection to President Trump and his anti-immigration stance, has been dubbed ‘the crack cocaine of real estate financing,’ according to The Real Deal. Not only cheaper than bank financing, the program gives developers more flexibility when raising money for a project.”

WeWork, the project’s anchor tenant, then backed out of the project, taking with it $59 million in tax breaks. Kushner Companies also dropped its request for a 30-year tax abatement from the city. Eventually, a scaled-back version of One Journal Square — now a two-tower project — was approved in September 2017.

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Community leaders still hope the project moves forward. In a statement, Bill Armbruster, President of the New JSQ Community Association, told Jersey Digs, “We are eager to see One Journal Square developed. Some of us attended a presentation by KABR in October 2015, and we were very impressed. This is probably the most valuable undeveloped property in Jersey City, and it’s infuriating that this property has just been an empty lot for the past 10 years. I fear that if construction does not begin within the next 18 months, it could remain vacant for another 10 years.”
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https://jerseydigs.com/kushner-cos-o...-move-forward/

citybooster Feb 15, 2018 4:46 AM
The article, unfortunately, ultimately gives us no idea if anything is going to happen. If the mayor continues with his opposition(even development foe for the most part City Councilman Richard Boggiano wants this done and even supported the potential project across the street involving the old Jersey Journal Building included in the development of a 72 story tower behind it and would support even an abatement if it didn't go as long as 30 years) nothing will get done here. The fears of those thinking it could be a decade or more of this kind of eyesore may well be realized. One good thing is that the Kushners have ruled out asking for those kinds of payments from foreign nationals that really helped get this project in hot water. I have no love for them, but it's vital we get the Square back on track...while the rival Kushner family Journal Squared is doing well as the second and largest (71 stories, 759ft) of their three story project is ready for construction to start, it's behind the Square. One Journal Square would be the visible heart of the Square, and if the Kushners can acquire enough additional funding to get things going for real, the city should compromise and agree to some sweeteners so long as it's not ridiculous. Get this done.

Crawford Feb 15, 2018 1:02 PM
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Originally Posted by citybooster (Post 8086288)
T If the mayor continues with his opposition
The JC mayor now supports this project. The issue with the Chinese marketing is done; the Kushners aren't seeking EB-5 money.

NYguy Feb 20, 2018 6:33 AM
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C. Mar 1, 2018 2:47 AM
Really negative story out this hour about the developer receiving improper loans. One Journal Square = dead?

Crawford Mar 1, 2018 1:10 PM
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Originally Posted by CIA (Post 8103415)
Really negative story out this hour about the developer receiving improper loans. One Journal Square = dead?
You're confusing Kushners.

This project has been resubmitted to city planning and is moving forward.

vandelay Mar 1, 2018 4:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Crawford (Post 8103728)
You're confusing Kushners.
They're not confusing Kushners. The report stated that Kushner Co. received very favorable financing after meeting with Jared Kushner:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/b...T.nav=top-news

If there's any enforcement, it's unlikely that they'll simply assume that because Jared Kushner ostensibly divested himself in Kushner Co. that he didn't act in Kushner Co.'s benefit.

In any case, this means that future and current financing for Kushner Cos. projects will face enormous scrutiny, just like how Anbang's deal for 666 was torpedoed, and Anbang was taken over by the Chinese government.

Crawford Mar 1, 2018 10:15 PM
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Originally Posted by vandelay (Post 8103973)
They're not confusing Kushners. The report stated that Kushner Co. received very favorable financing after meeting with Jared Kushner:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/b...T.nav=top-news

If there's any enforcement, it's unlikely that they'll simply assume that because Jared Kushner ostensibly divested himself in Kushner Co. that he didn't act in Kushner Co.'s benefit.

In any case, this means that future and current financing for Kushner Cos. projects will face enormous scrutiny, just like how Anbang's deal for 666 was torpedoed, and Anbang was taken over by the Chinese government.
Pretty much everything you wrote is wrong. There was no Anbang deal for 666, so obviously nothing was torpedoed. Anbang was kicking the tires, alongside other investors.

And I can't stand you-know-who in the WH as much as anyone, but there is no relationship between JSQ and the WH. Stop with the ridiculous conjecture already. The whole WH staff could go to prison for life and it would have nothing to do with this thread.

vandelay Mar 1, 2018 10:19 PM
What's hard to understand? Kushner and Cos. got the loans after meeting with Jared. Kushner and Cos. is developing Journal Square. Did you even read the article?

C. Mar 19, 2018 7:06 PM
Excellent interview with Boggiano by Jersey Digs

https://jerseydigs.com/interview-war...ournal-square/

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Jersey Digs: What are your priorities for your second term?

Rich Boggiano: One Journal Square. I want those buildings built. I want a supermarket, either a Trader Joe’s or a Whole Foods because we have nothing in that area. I want some nice restaurants. I want to see change. I’ve been waiting for four years. I’m tired of waiting. I want to see the Loew’s finished and done right.

For future developments, they’re going to have to start doing some stuff with the infrastructure because — I’ll be honest with you — they’re gonna put 7,500 units just in Journal Square in that one area and I don’t think the infrastructure can handle it.

Pershing Field is one of the nicest parks in the city. I want the tennis courts done right. I want the basketball courts done right.

C. Apr 23, 2018 1:21 AM
The One Journal Square curse strikes again!

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Hours after reporting that the Kushner Companies/KABR Group’s plan to redevelop One Journal Square had hit a significant snag, the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency (JCRA) informed the developers that they have violated their agreement on the project.

“Since the execution of the Redeveloper Agreement, the Redeveloper has parted ways with its joint venture partner, proposed significant changes to the Project scope, sough multiple amendments to site plan approval, and has submitted its annual administrative fee due on April 21, 2017 to the Agency on April 4, 2018, nearly one full year past due,” JCRA Acting Executive Diana Jeffrey wrote.

“All of the forgoing raise concerns regarding Redeveloper’s ability to present a cohesive capital stack and to see the Project through to fruition.”
https://hudsoncountyview.com/jcra-sa...-800m-project/

• Video Link

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Kushner Co’s. $800 M redevelopment agreement with city may be voided

The Jersey City Redevelopment Authority has notified the Kushner Companies that a plan to develop One Journal Square may no longer meet the city’s redevelopment requirements.

Changes in the plan as well as changes to the original partnership, and failure to submit an annual administrative fee due at the beginning of April, have the JCRA reexamining the agreement with Kushner Companies.

One concern, city officials said, is whether the company can raise the necessary funds to complete the project. The project’s financing came under scrutiny last year when the company attempted to use a controversial funding mechanism to raise funds from China.

Mayor Steven Fulop confirmed that the JCRA will review the agreements with the firm. Published reports suggest the project is relying on a potential tax break which many not materialize, putting the massive project at risk.

According to the original agreement, the project was supposed to break ground by Jan. 1, 2017. But lack of financing at the time delayed it.

The site of the project has been a political football for more than a decade, and figured prominently in the 2013 election as a symbol of the lack of progress being made in redeveloping Journal Square. Although other projects have begun in the area, the One Journal Square site remains as an undeveloped vacant lot in the middle of an area that includes bus and PATH terminal as well as buildings connected with the Hudson Community College.

Read more: Hudson Reporter - JERSEY CITY BRIEFS
http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/f...city_top_story

Letter from the developer to the Mayor: https://hudsoncountyview.com/wp-cont...ino-Letter.pdf
Letter from JCRA attorneys to the developer: https://hudsoncountyview.com/wp-cont...ann-Letter.pdf

This one is not looking good...

citybooster Apr 23, 2018 2:48 AM
It's imperative that if in short order we know that if there is no way Kushner can credibly see this through, Fulop does what he did with the previous ownership...push them to sell. But this time to a developer who doesn't have someone in charge with delusions of political grandeur.

chris08876 Apr 23, 2018 11:34 AM
^^^^^^^^^

Its the Kushner curse. Everything with "Kushner" seems to have bad luck, he's a jinx! He's like the Jinx from a Bronx Tale. We can't have him touch the money, put him in the closet!

vandelay Apr 24, 2018 4:36 PM
Charles Kushner recognizes that their name is in the toilet right now and has been doing a full court press in the media. But anyone who doesn't want media or political scrutiny will not go in with them, which is probably why WeWork backed out of this project, torpedoing it.

Fvn Apr 24, 2018 9:50 PM
Rename to Renhsuk Companies and they'll be good to go ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

chris08876 Apr 27, 2018 11:29 PM
Jersey City won’t give Charles Kushner subsidies, but his brother got them

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The mayor of Jersey City, Steven Fulop, has made it clear he doesn’t want to give Kushner Companies a dime of subsidy to build their luxury residential towers at 1 Journal Square. But he didn’t feel that way about giving money to Charles Kushner’s rival brother, Murray.

Kushner Real Estate Group, the firm led by Charles’ estranged brother Murray, received $40 million for its own redevelopment proposals at Journal Square, Bloomberg reported. That project, called Journal Squared, opened last year.

Kushner Companies expected to receive the same treatment, but that changed last year, as protestors lined up to express their outrage that the city would move to subsidize the family of the President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.

Though Charles Kushner recently said Fulop, a Democrat, admitted that his decisions on the 1 Journal Square project were intentionally discriminatory, a Fulop spokesperson told Bloomberg she was not able to confirm this conversation ever happened.
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TRD

chris08876 Jan 5, 2019 4:25 PM
Kushner firm wins records dispute against Jersey City

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A Hudson County judge ruled Friday that the Fulop administration must hand over documents requested by Kushner Companies related to the developer’s stalled Journal Square project, a plan that is at the center of a separate legal proceeding in federal court.

Judge Francis B. Schultz’ five-page decision, which also slaps Jersey City for not devoting enough resources to answering public-records requests, comes as the administration faces renewed criticism over its transparency.

The ruling stems from a complaint the Kushner firm and its partner, KABR Group, filed against the city in September after it told them their document requests were “overly broad” and would have disrupted city government if the city fulfilled them.

But Schultz found the city made “no real effort” to find the requested documents and he ordered the city to deliver them to the developers within 20 days.

"None of the three requests required discretion or 'research' on the part of the defendants and these are not the type of documents which would have required a search that would have interrupted agency operations," Schultz said.

Because the judge identified the developers as the prevailing party, the city will be on the hook for their legal fees unless the city appeals and wins.

“It’s a sad day when a public official like Mayor Fulop, and the city he controls, is found to have blatantly violated the law, contrary to the oath of office he took," said the developers' attorney, Joseph B. Fiorenzo. “We will now find out what the city, and Mayor Fulop, have been hiding concerning the political machinations surrounding the award of tax abatements in Jersey City.”

City spokeswoman Ashley Manz said the city will likely appeal. Taxpayers should not have to pay for a “pointless and futile fishing expedition,” she said.

“The Kushners' sense of entitlement is embarrassing for them as they are so detached from reality that they think they can bully a city into giving them money,” Manz said. “It is absurd and isn’t going to happen in Jersey City.”
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https://www.nj.com/hudson/2019/01/ku...rsey-city.html

chris08876 Jan 25, 2019 3:20 AM
N.J. Supreme Court won’t hear $2 million tax case out of Jersey City

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The New Jersey Supreme Court last week declined to weigh in on a lower court’s ruling that requires Jersey City to repay $2 million to the developer behind a failed tower project in Journal Square.

An appellate panel in August ruled that it was grossly unfair for the city to take the $2 million — a prepayment of the payments-in-lieu-of-taxes the developer planned to owe the city — and it need to be given back. New Jersey Supreme Court Chief Justice Stuart Rabner said on Jan. 14 the decision would not be reviewed by the state’s highest court.

The developer, Multi-Employer Property Trust, never constructed the project, planned for a property adjacent to the Journal Square PATH hub that was later purchased by Kushner Companies and KABR Group. Those developers have their own tower project that is also stalled.

MEPT declined to comment. A request for comment from Jersey City was not immediately returned.

The MEPT project was a two-tower plan that received 30-year tax breaks from the city in 2009. The city asked for $2 million upfront to help close a budget shortfall. MEPT asked for the money back when the project fell apart.

The appellate panel ruled last year that state law does not permit cities to require prepayment of PILOTs in exchange for abatements.

MEPT also sought a return of $710,769 it contributed to the city’s affordable housing trust fund. The appellate panel ruled that state law allows municipalities to condition the awarding of tax abatements on contributions to housing trust funds.

The property in question remains vacant as Kushner Companies — run by the family of Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and adviser — and KABR Group allege in federal court that Jersey City and Mayor Steve Fulop put a stop to the project because of Fulop’s animus toward Trump. Fulop has denied that charge.
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https://www.nj.com/hudson/2019/01/nj...rsey-city.html

C. Jan 28, 2019 2:03 PM
I'm no longer a Jersey City resident, but this was my favorite proposal since I lived in Journal Square. I think the curse is true and it will not be redeveloped anytime soon. :(

chris08876 May 30, 2019 2:11 AM
Jersey City Loses Latest Battle With Kushner, Ordered to Pay Legal Fees

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The bloom of spring hasn’t been particularly rosy for Jersey City’s lawyers, as the city will be forking over $137,000 in legal fees following a double dose of bad news at the courthouse.

The first setback happened just as the calendar turned to May and stems from the blockbuster Federal lawsuit filed by Kushner Companies last year. The case alleged that anti-Trump bias from the city was the root cause behind the company’s stalled One Journal Square project, and Kushner had filed a request for records from the city regarding various tax abatements that were granted to other developers at the time.

After the city told Kushner their request was “overly broad,” the company filed an Open Public Records Act (OPRA) lawsuit and won a favorable ruling from Judge Francis Schultz in Hudson County Court. The city will have to turn over the requested records and is liable for legal expenses because Kushner was the prevailing party, and Schultz ruled on April 29 that Jersey City will have to pay Kushner’s legal fees of $95,000.
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citybooster May 30, 2019 1:46 PM
Enough already, either the city has to make it worth the Kushner's while to go away and sell or somehow they have to work with the Kushners to get this damn thing built. It's in no one's interest to leave this place a gaping block of nothing. Stop with this crap already... I loathe just about everything Trump related, but this is about the future of the centerpiece of 21st century Journal Square and it's an embarrassment this is just playing along and nothing gets done.

Crawford May 30, 2019 2:04 PM
100% agreed with the above. The city needs to work collaboratively with the developers. Put aside the politics and the fact that the family is loathsome. Get it built.

Skyguy_7 May 30, 2019 2:33 PM
This is big government/partisan politics at its worst. Harassment of private citizens for no apparent reason other than pophobia of the "other side" and rUsSiAn OliGArChs. The result: a scar on the cityscape where there would otherwise be a vibrant block of shops, homes, jobs and people to fill them.

citybooster May 30, 2019 2:59 PM
As for the above post, there are a lot of valid reasons to not lt the developers control everything... thankfully we aren't an exclusive enough place to build sky high towers that cost $50 million plus that more likely would be pied a terre arrangements for shady billionaires like the aforementioned Russian oligarchs... there's room for that in New York City but what we do need here is something that the above poster also states, something that will transform and make truly livable with apartments and shops and cultural venues nearby... bring life to a once shoddy area now even worse off because it's one big lifeless empty lot. I won't make any other political references outside of the main point of this forum, but things are a lot more complex then... government always bad, business always good.

chris08876 Nov 5, 2020 2:14 AM
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chris08876 Jan 7, 2021 3:42 AM
Kushner’s controversial One Journal Square project receives approval to bring 1,700 units to Jersey City :cheers:

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After sitting vacant for over a decade, a large site in Jersey City’s Journal Square will soon be home to two 710-foot towers with over 1,700 units of housing. The Jersey City Planning Board on Tuesday approved Kushner Companies’ controversial One Journal Square project, signaling the beginning of the end of this development saga. The approval came after the city and the developer reached a settlement agreement last October over a lawsuit filed in 2018 against the city by Kushner Companies, run by the family of White House advisor Jared Kushner, that claimed officials stalled the project over “anti-Trump” sentiment.


Designed by Woods Bagot Architects, the skyscraper complex measures about two million square feet and consists of two 52-story towers rising from one 10-story podium. In total, there are 1,723 units of housing, 883 parking spaces, and space for retail and commercial use. Older plans had called for two 849 foot tall, 56-story towers with 1,512 residential units and a 56- and a 79-story tower with a total of 1,725 units.

Amenities at One Journal Square include a full-sized basketball court, pool, roof terrace, dog run, dining areas, and a landscaped public plaza surrounding the building.

“Kushner is excited to reach this milestone needed to get this pivotal project off the ground and make 1 Journal Square a reality,” Jenny Bernell, executive vice president of development for Kushner, told NJ.com in a statement. “We look forward to continuing a great collaboration with Jersey City.”
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mrnyc Jan 7, 2021 3:45 AM
i can't wait until he builds this so we can storm it!

chris08876 Jan 7, 2021 3:49 AM
I'm content with the 1,723 units. On a philosophical note, in rendering land, those folks are not social distancing and no masks!

There's also two Japanese twins.

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But its good for the neighborhood. I remember what this area use to be before the boom, it was a dump. Parking is annoying in this area though.

Busy Bee Jan 7, 2021 4:05 AM
Of all the iterations, is this the worst base?

Also can we burn this son of a bitch trump on the ashheap of history already?

jbermingham123 Jan 7, 2021 4:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Busy Bee (Post 9152060)
Of all the iterations, is this the worst base?

Also can we burn this son of a bitch trump on the ashheap of history already?
yeah i would say trump's base is definitely the worst base

as for the burning.. they say the fire of hell is just an ancient representation of how the universe (natural selection) seems to "burn away" all the ill-adapted variations of things.. trump is, in my most humble opinion, an ill-adapted variation, if you will ;)

NYguy Jan 8, 2021 3:10 AM
https://jerseydigs.com/new-rendering...roundbreaking/


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rgarri4 Jan 8, 2021 6:00 AM
From my 3d model.

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Zapatan Jan 8, 2021 7:53 PM
Nice! What are the really high ones near it?

rgarri4 Jan 8, 2021 8:35 PM
808 Pavonia Avenue Towers and 30 Journal Square. There's actually a few towers missing in the area that I haven't gotten around to building.

chris08876 Jan 8, 2021 9:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Zapatan (Post 9153800)
Nice! What are the really high ones near it?
Part of the Journal Squared development. Note that the tallest is in Phase II, which was recently built.

1 more tower remaining in that complex.

I'm hoping URL P2, and P3 rise eventually (Urban Ready Living).

Edit: yeah what rgarri said, but presently, Journal Squared P2 is the highest in the area via completion.


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