So much construction! But...where are all the people?
Lots of residents work in NYC. In terms of pedestrian nodes, downtown is one of them, and so is Journal Square, but for the most part, during a workday, the streets are kinda of empty. Even in nearby Hoboken (side streets, but Washington is usually very busy). Weekends are better for pedestrian crowds, but even then, everybody usually goes to the city.
Hudson County Community College breaks ground on STEM building
By Erika Solorzano | The Jersey Journal
on May 19, 2015 at 3:25 PM
Members of Hudson County Community College gathered in celebrating the ground breaking of the colleges' newest STEM building on Journal Square Campus.
JERSEY CITY -- "Another opening, another show," Hudson County County Executive Tom DeGise said at the ground-breaking ceremony for a new Hudson County Community College building today.
Members of the college gathered on the Journal Square campus to mark the start of construction for a six-story, 74,000-square-foot STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) school building.
The future STEM building, located at 282 Academy St., is currently a parking lot across the street from Jersey City's School 11.
"We're growing, we're going to continue to grow, we're going to continue to succeed because of what we have, the human resource, the personnel and our student body," Hudson County Freeholder Anthony Romano said. "We're going to keep building."
I hope they propose a condo building above what zoning currently allows as there is so few high rise homeownership options in Jersey City. Everything seems to be rental.
Late June - Downtown Jersey City Update from Brandon Nagle
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The Newark Street Pedestrian Plaza has apparently become permanent, as the road markings are being removed.
Jersey Avenue and Christopher Columbus 7? story retail and residential building
Liberty Harbor
Montgomery and Grove condos
33 Park Avenue, once the foundation piles are finished and the slab is poured, this will begin rising fast. They can't excavate due to flooding.
99 Hudson Street site was empty of cars, but untouched.
The new hotel by Harborside
URL Harborside. It was 42 stories high as of June 28th.
The old Harborside model is still prominently displayed.
The large building in the front and the left twin were built exactly as is. The two tall right side buildings have been replaced by URL Harborside's three 70 story towers. The tall building on the left remains a parking lot.
Trump Plaza II
Marbella II (M2) and 110 First Street This dog park was destroyed during construction and is being rebuilt to a different design.
143 Second Street (they are doing some kind of renovation here.)
Bayonne City Council to consider 46th Street redevelopment plan tonight
- A redevelopment plan that would allow an apartment complex to be built up to 10 stories tall in a neighborhood of mostly two-story homes will be considered at the City Council meeting at City Hall tonight at 7 p.m.
The plan, which targets the northwestern corner of 46th Street and Broadway, will be open for public comment before it is voted on, if the council decides to take a vote on it.
The city's five council members could take a final vote to accept or reject the redevelopment plan; table the plan for another meeting but leave it unchanged; or table the plan for another meeting while considering making amendments to it.
If approved by the council, the plan would help pave the way for developer Lance Lucarelli of The L Group to build what he has said would be a nine-story building with retail stores on the first floor and 88 apartment units on the upper floors.
Normally, following the city's Master Plan, a building can be built at 46th Street and Broadway with a max height of 45 feet, according to city Business Administrator Joe DeMarco. Under the redevelopment plan, the max would go up to 120 feet.
Hopefully this will get approved. The vote appears to be pushed back.
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The City Council last night ended up tabling the redevelopment plan for the next City Council meeting on August 19 at 7 p.m., after a councilman appeared confused during the final vote for the plan.
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