JERSEY CITY | Projects and Construction thread

[chris08876]

Originally Posted by CIA

I have the breakdown per tower for Liberty Harbor.

The big 55-story one is 1.5 million sqft and 1,320 units in the tower and it's base. The small 25-story one is just under 500,000 sqft and 512 units. It's not inclusive of the 2000+ Crescent Park or the recent RFP for 41 and 52 Athena St.

Crescent Park was originally only going to be 995 units and is seeking a major rezoning to 2,295.

Great news. JC under Mayor Fulop has boomed. Although the big wild card in a booming JC is the strain on the transit system. But, in the end, its good that these mixed used communities are rising. What they are replacing is worth it. A lot of this region use to be garbage. And literally, garbage, so its good to see improvements.

What will be nice is the neighborhoods between Journal Square and Newport/Downtown are set to boom as well. Making a nice, high density node of highrises and mid rises between the two main skyscraper nods. Journal Square I'd expect in the next 10 years to rival downtown JC.

The foot traffic from observation is impressive, and its good that there will be an evermore increase in street activity.

Originally Posted by CIA

Some updates - Journal Square is going GANGBUSTERS. Two new boutique hotels are planned for the Journal Square neighborhood!

Was talking to a friend of mine the other day about Journal Square, and he said its a dump. Mind you he's an architect. I just wanted to pull a Joe Pesci on him. You know, with a telephone. And I don't think real estate people would mind either. Say dumb things, get a telephone over the head.



He just doesn't know. Journal Square will be one of the hottest neighborhoods in the next 5 years.

[chris08876]

Project: 16 Bennett Street



1) 5 Floors
2) 63 residential units + 57 Parking Spaces

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[C.]

Originally Posted by chris08876

Was talking to a friend of mine the other day about Journal Square, and he said its a dump. Mind you he's an architect. I just wanted to pull a Joe Pesci on him. You know, with a telephone. And I don't think real estate people would mind either. Say dumb things, get a telephone over the head.



He just doesn't know. Journal Square will be one of the hottest neighborhoods in the next 5 years.

Damn right!

[C.]

double post.

[citybooster]

All this development news has me so overwhelmed I have to sit for a few minutes...soon enough I'll be standing back up in ready to jump with glee and excitement over the next wave of incredibly fantastic development news!

[C.]

The stupid crap going on in NYC with the illogical zoning limits and 421a has made Jersey very attractive. Development have taken notice at being able to build at half the cost, but still command decent rents with a much better regulatory environment. Things should only peak up now as long as the market remains strong.

[chris08876]

^^^^

Hudson County needs more office. 99 Hudson is a start, but the area needs more office towers. Residential will always be there, but I think having an attractive area for office tenants is crucial. If the office comes, the residential units will even more so.

[chris08876]

The great JC Skyline. Full screen a must for these two pics.

Note Ellipse on the far left, 33 Park on the far right, and URL around mid center. Foreground where you can see 4 WTC in the back. Cast Iron Lofts can also be seen if you look closely.




Extra SHOT: Dense, Hudson County. A huge city in its own right.


Credit for both: EVAN BINDELGLASS

[chris08876]

Some projects: (From the JC Planning Board Meeting) ; See PDF *


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Case: P16-042 Preliminary and Final Major Site Plan
Applicant: 2 Shore Drive North, LLC
Review Planner: Maryann Bucci-Carter, Barkha R Patel
Attorney: Lisa A. John-Basta
Address: 2 Shore Lane
Block: 7302 Lot: 11, 17 &21
Zone: Newport Redevelopment Plan
Description: Construction of an 8 story mixed use building with 71 condominium units and 15,603
square feet of retail
Decision: Approved

Case: P16-027 Minor Subdivision with “C” Variances
Applicant: Broadway West Associates LLC
Review Planner: Jeff Wenger
Attorney: Francis Regan
Address: 1072 & 1075 West Side Avenue
Block: 9204 Lot: 1 & Block: 9301 Lot : 24, 27-30
Zone: R-3 Multi-Family Mid-Rise
Description: Consolidation of 6 tax lots into 1.
Variance: 5 structures on 1 lot.
Decision: Carried to an unspecified date

Case: P16-025 Preliminary and Final Major Site Plan with "c" Variances
Applicant: Broadway West Associates LLC
Review Planner: Jeff Wenger
Attorney: Francis Regan
Address: 1072 & 1075 West Side Avenue
Block: 9204 Lot: 1 & Block: 9301 Lot : 24, 27-30
Zone: R-3 Multi-Family Mid-Rise
Description: Construction of 3 new mixed use buildings and conversion of one existing mixed
use building, ranging from 3 to 8 stories for 486 residential units, 25,452 square
feet of retail and 384 parking spaces.
Variance: Maximum parking level height, Minimum setback for rooftop height exceptions.
Decision: Carried to an unspecified date

Case: P16-033 Preliminary and Final Major Site Plan with Deviations
Applicant: LBM Group
Review Planner: Matt Ward, PP, AICP
Address: 829-843 Garfield Avenue
Block: 22704 Lot: 7, 8 and 9
Zone: Canal Crossing Redevelopment Plan
Description: New five-story mixed-use building containing 108 dwelling units of which 10 are
affordable units, 76 parking spaces and roughly 10,000 square feet of ground floor retail.
Deviation: Unit mix breakdown, maximum height, minimum rear yard
Decision: Approved with conditions

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* JERSEY CITY PLANNING BOARD
PUBLIC NOTICE

[Hamilton]

Those are from 9 months ago....

2 shore drive is already well under construction. 1075 is the project of the puccini's site...they were hoping to get a PATH station there under a governor fulop (he was the frontrunner at the time)

http://www.yimbynews.com/category/1075-west-side-avenue

[chris08876]

^^^

Extra info never hurts. Plus as this is a contruction/projects thread, its good to aim to list all of the projects.

Just like in NYC, most of the projects going on in any given city are not highrises or skyscrapers, but smaller ones. Whether it be Seattle or LA or SF, smaller projects constitute a big portion of total urban investment.

[C.]

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...17#post7745717

41 and 52 Aetna Street - not much details know as this point except it will be two more high rise residential buildings and developed by "Argent Ventures, LLC."

[C.]

Protestors at Journal Square fighting the tax abatement for One Journal Square. Citing Trump, Kushner. Part of larger organized effort by someone.

[citybooster]

Screw that... as much as I'm no fan of the guy in the White House, the Kushners represent the best chance to get things moving here and whoever has the agenda to start nipping at the heels of One Journal Square hopefully nothing wil come out of it. And Kushners, get busy on One Journal Square for goodness sakes... the other Kushners are very close to starting the second and largest tower at their own Journal Square transforming project, Journal Square. I heard they were going to start soon but we've heard that music for years since the Harwoods promised to transform the Square with nothing to show for it. You've got the money, now get busy!

[limak116]

I wonder if the delay has anything to do with this.... http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2..._by_judge.html

[C.]

Originally Posted by limak116

I wonder if the delay has anything to do with this.... http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2..._by_judge.html

My sense is now. This is still at the FAA for approval and has recently gotten a design change. There is also an awarding of a tax abatement vote planned for tonight.

[Hamilton]

Hudson county population estimate for 2016: 677,983, an increase of ~4,200 (or 0.5%) from the estimate for 2015. Estimates for 2015 were revised downward by 1,000 from the ones provided last year.

http://www.recordonline.com/news/201...nsus-estimates

[Hamilton]

Leasing to begin at 3 Journal Square, starting at $1600: http://www.njbiz.com/article/2017032...ter-this-month

[chris08876]

Project: 520 Palisade Avenue

Formerly occupied by the Ladder 10 Fire Company, the property at 520 Palisade Avenue was an active fire station for many years. Built around 1920, the station was eventually disbanded in favor of two other ones that also service The Heights neighborhood.

Despite that history, the building remains aesthetically similar to this day and the structure has been used for many different purposes over time, from a warehouse to a grocer to a furniture store. It most recently housed a Filipino gift shop and several different owners have proposed redevelopment plans at the site over the years.

Jersey City-based Pronti Construction purchased the property in 2015 for $2.5 million and has presented their plans for the building to the Riverview Neighborhood Association. Their vision, designed by G3 Architecture, calls for the restoration of the entire front façade of the building and the construction of a new section up the back of the structure that will rise about 75 feet.

Scaling back plans that they originally presented, Pronti’s latest and final version of the project will consist of 17 units, 10 parking spaces and 2,000 square feet of retail space. Currently, there is a loading bay on one side of the property that will eventually be home to the development’s parking garage component, which will use a lift-style system to stack cars.

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[C.]

Journal Squared is 22.8% leased (122 units) as of March 27, after being on the market for 24 days.

• Video Link

Journal Squared leasing starts out strong
More than 120 units gobbled up in opening weeks
By Mario Marroquin, March 27, 2017 at 4:00 AM

When the Marketing Directors first started to market apartment units in the first tower of the Journal Squared complex, the firm had no idea what to expect.

“There’s been a huge wave of construction in downtown Jersey City, it’s been very established and very sought after,” Martin Brady, the executive vice president of the Marketing Directors, said. “Journal Squared is the new one.”

But after only 20 days, Journal Squared had signed 104 leases for that first tower. By Monday morning, four days later, the number was up to 122.

“We opened on March 3, and we have been incredibly busy since,” Brady said. “We probably had over 1,000 people who had expressed interest before we opened.”

By the time of its completion, the Journal Squared complex will house 1,838 units across three towers, as well as 36,000 square feet of retail space.

Brady said more than 50 people a week are coming to take a look.

“If we see on average 20 or 25 people during the week, we’ll see more than 25 people on the weekend alone,” he said.

Some of the first looks went to Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop, who joined the Kushner Real Estate Group’s Jonathan Kushner and National Real Estate Advisors’ Jeffrey Kanne at the official ribbon-cutting ceremony earlier this month.

Fulop said the importance of the project cannot be overstated.

Read the full article from NJBIZ at http://www.njbiz.com/article/2017032...rts-out-strong