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Four residential buildings planned for old Jersey City pasta factory site

June 19, 2015

JERSEY CITY — Four residential buildings, two of them 25-stories high, are slated for the old Mueller's pasta factory on Baldwin Avenue, another sign that the Downtown building boom is extending farther west.

The developer, Argent Ventures, wants to build 980 units on the 5.2-acre site, located less than half a mile from the Journal Square PATH station. The Mueller's site is largely vacant, aside from a four-story, 300,000-square-foot former manufacturing plant that will be demolished.

"The site represents the largest, 'shovel ready' development site in Journal Square and one of the prime development sites in Jersey City," the developer says on the project's website.

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Argent is scheduled to go before the Planning Board on Tuesday night for site plan approval.

Councilman Rich Boggiano, who represents Ward C, where the property is located, has met with the developer and has given the plan his tentative approval. Boggiano noted that the two tall buildings proposed for the Mueller's site are "set back" from Baldwin Avenue so they don't tower over the small apartment buildings and residential homes across the street.

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The Mueller's plant shuttered in 1997 when the company moved its operations to South Carolina, putting over 300 people out of work. At the time it was one of the largest losses of manufacturing jobs in Hudson County's history.

The Baldwin Avenue plant was built in 1915.

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