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Old Posted Nov 26, 2022, 6:46 PM
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Seeing the redevelopment of the PABT in New York has me thinking long term about the Port Authority's other redevelopment project at the Journal Square Transportation Center.

They issued a RFI in 2019, and not much news since then. The zoning allows around 9.6 million sqft of development, with no height limit. To put that into perspective, the Journal Squared development is 2.4 million sqft. The RFI called for improving passenger circulation and reconfigure the bus lanes.

https://rew-online.com/old-jersey-ci...et-a-new-look/

Journal Square is getting rapidly built out, and this will probably be one of the last parcels to be redeveloped. Except to see something big, one day.
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Old Posted Nov 29, 2022, 10:19 AM
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C., the West Side development looks amazing.
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Old Posted Nov 29, 2022, 1:38 PM
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Yeah, the Journal Square Transportation Center will eventually be replaced. It really needs to go.

Journal Square needs a grand transit hub, and I suspect the hub will be accompanied by soaring residential towers.
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Old Posted Nov 29, 2022, 8:30 PM
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C., the West Side development looks amazing.
I have to give a high five to the Jersey City planners that wrote the Route 440-Culver Redevelopment plan that made it possible. It's really well designed how it integrates into the light rail row.
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Old Posted Nov 30, 2022, 4:32 PM
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I have to give a high five to the Jersey City planners that wrote the Route 440-Culver Redevelopment plan that made it possible. It's really well designed how it integrates into the light rail row.
They were supposed to have a Planning Board meeting for the first phase of the Westview project last evening. Did it pass, get moved? This is such a transformative project, would eventually provide for a very sizable public park within the four tower development as well as the light rail aspect cutting through the project with the raised connnection cutting through to Bayview.
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Old Posted Dec 2, 2022, 1:14 AM
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They were supposed to have a Planning Board meeting for the first phase of the Westview project last evening. Did it pass, get moved? This is such a transformative project, would eventually provide for a very sizable public park within the four tower development as well as the light rail aspect cutting through the project with the raised connnection cutting through to Bayview.
No news yet, but I mean...

When was the last time the Planning Board rejected a project. Especially one that ties into the light rail goals of the region.
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Old Posted Dec 2, 2022, 3:44 AM
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No news yet, but I mean...

When was the last time the Planning Board rejected a project. Especially one that ties into the light rail goals of the region.
I'm just worried the neighborhood NIMBYs will scream how out of scale four huge towers will be in the neighborhood. We're not downtown especially near the waterfront or Journal Square, and though much of Bayview wil be mid rise and there iloks like a few mid rises are being planned(Carbon Place twin 12 story towers, two 12 story towers possible in the development of the lot across from the West Side light rail stop, a 15 story tower approved for Route 440 across from the Hudson Mall area) these towers will be dense and quite tall. two at 55 and 56 stories, a bit under 600 ft. But the parkland would be great and it seems like a terrific use of land and density surrounding the light rail.
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Old Posted Dec 2, 2022, 4:25 PM
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I'm just worried the neighborhood NIMBYs will scream how out of scale four huge towers will be in the neighborhood. We're not downtown especially near the waterfront or Journal Square, and though much of Bayview wil be mid rise and there iloks like a few mid rises are being planned(Carbon Place twin 12 story towers, two 12 story towers possible in the development of the lot across from the West Side light rail stop, a 15 story tower approved for Route 440 across from the Hudson Mall area) these towers will be dense and quite tall. two at 55 and 56 stories, a bit under 600 ft. But the parkland would be great and it seems like a terrific use of land and density surrounding the light rail.
That’s the beauty of this thing. It’s complaint with zoning and technically can’t be rejected.

Having said that, it looks like it was an extremely busy planning board meeting and they might not have gotten to this item, so it was carried to the next meeting. We will know for sure in a couple days.
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Old Posted Dec 2, 2022, 4:55 PM
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That’s the beauty of this thing. It’s complaint with zoning and technically can’t be rejected.

Having said that, it looks like it was an extremely busy planning board meeting and they might not have gotten to this item, so it was carried to the next meeting. We will know for sure in a couple days.
Yep, we will soon see.
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Absolutely surreal how much this area has changed!
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Old Posted Dec 5, 2022, 10:24 PM
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New 35 floor building for JSQ

https://jcitytimes.com/city-council-...re-skyscraper/

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At its meeting on Nov. 28, the Jersey City Municipal Council introduced an ordinance that would allow for the construction of a new skyscraper in Journal Square: a 35-story building at 701 Newark Ave. where there is currently a parking lot.

Requested by city business administrator John Metro, the ordinance would amend the Journal Square 2060 Redevelopment Plan and allow for an unrestricted number of units per acre (or floor area ratio). Instead, the developer would be constrained by area, yard, and bulk requirements.

According to Metro, the building would be eligible for a 20 percent affordable housing bonus (also known as the Homestead Place Extension Bonus) and an office space bonus that would permit two additional stories if they were reserved for office space.
It looks like this replaces the crappy "Dream Hotel" proposal for the site. (I say crappy because they at least could have done a better rendering)


https://jerseydigs.com/dream-tower-s...e-jersey-city/
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Old Posted Dec 5, 2022, 10:52 PM
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^ Looks nice. I especially like how the base mirrors the historic commercial building height of the nice row of neighbors. Now if only something can be done, anything, to the disastrous superblock across the street bounded by JFK, St.Pauls and Summit. Redeveloping everything except the tallest towers and restoring as much of the street grid as possible would go a very long way.
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Old Posted Dec 5, 2022, 10:53 PM
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^ Looks nice. I especially like how the base mirrors the historic commercial building height of the nice row of neighbors. Now if only something can be done, anything, to the disastrous superblock across the street bounded by JFK, St.Pauls and Summit. Redeveloping everything except the tallest towers and restoring as much of the street grid as possible would go a very long way.
That's the old design. New renders have not yet been released.
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Old Posted Dec 5, 2022, 11:01 PM
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^ Bummer. Hopefully the redesign will be just as promising.
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A JOB WELL DONE HERE

https://jerseydigs.com/city-hall-park-jersey-city/



LOL at the European-style plates though.
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Old Posted Dec 9, 2022, 4:00 PM
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You know...

https://jerseydigs.com/extend-hudson...int-ironbound/

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Just thinking here, but that Kearny point could be a really cool development BUT right now it looks like a glorified office park. They need a Kushner brother with vision. lol
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Old Posted Dec 18, 2022, 7:41 PM
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Anyone have info on this never built proposal?





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Old Posted Dec 19, 2022, 7:29 AM
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First time seeing it, but wow.... the current buildings and proposals are good, but this would have been amazing at the heart of Journal Square.
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Old Posted Dec 19, 2022, 12:46 PM
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I believe the HBLR should end at Bayfront, and even link Bayfront with a ferry to Downtown Newark. The HBLR should focus on expanding north to Englewood, NJ, rather than focusing on Newark. As for Newark, it has a lot of potential to expand it's light rail system, to communities such as Nutley, West Orange, Irvington, and maybe even further into the Ironbound and Port Newark.
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Old Posted Dec 19, 2022, 3:51 PM
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HBLR sucks. It's a half-assed lower cost "solution" for a dense service area that easily justifies PATH or some other rapid metro type heavy rail.
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