JERSEY CITY | Hudson Exchange West (6 block development) | 12 Towers |

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Construction Wraps On Hudson Exchange West’s Second Tower, In Jersey City

Construction is complete on VYV East, a 432-unit residential building at 444 Warren Street in Jersey City. Designed by Perkins Eastman and developed by Brookfield Properties and G&S Investors, the structure is the second building to rise in the 18-acre Hudson Exchange West development following the completion of its sibling VYV at 474 Warren Street. Both edifices feature a curtain wall of dark gray brick and glass panels, and culminate in relatively flat parapets. The entire development will consist of 12 new towers with 5,400 units and 350,000 square feet of amenity, retail, and dining spaces.

A select few apartments on the southeastern corner of VYV East have balconies that run the height of the building from the top of the podium to the pinnacle. They provide views across the Hudson River of Hudson Square, Soho, Tribeca, and the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan. The structure also contains 9,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space that is being marketed by RKF.

VYV East is bound by Warren Street to the west, VYV and its multi-story parking garage to the north, light rail tracks to the east, and Metro Plaza Drive to the south. The waterfront is only two blocks away to the east, while the Harsimus Cove Hudson-Bergen Light Rail station is right across Metro Plaza Drive. The Newport Centre mall is a short walk from the front doors, as are big-box stores like Bed Bath & Beyond, BJ’s, and Shop Rite, which are located immediately to the west.

A completion date for the entire masterplan has yet to be announced, but is likely several years off.

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[Oron Zchut]

Basically done, some minor work ongoing

[citybooster]

How many more buildings are scheduled to be going up as the development expands out? I thought the original totals were 12, and I hope the rest are individually different and there is a bit of size contrast as well.

[Oron Zchut]

I believe there are 11 total in the current version. I haven't seen anything yet about future buildings on the planning board's agenda, so it might be quiet for a bit.

[chris08876]

This is one of those long term projects from a total build out standpoint. Overtime, we'll see more towers being added. Think of it more akin to let's say the Greenpoint Landing build out across the rivers. On a side note, I'm curious about some of the Passaic River developments over in Newark NJ. One of them had numerous towers involved.

[citybooster]

Yep, from the scope of it probably not completed for another decade... hopefully they can do two at a time if they deem it possible.

I'd love to see as well how they develop along the waterfront in Newark, a lot of room to build something exciting if they have the vision and don't simply want to max out profits.

[Crawford]

The Hudson Exchange project allows for varying heights, so I really hope we get taller towers in the next phases. It would be nice to see a mix of heights, up to the 700 ft. range or so.

[Oron Zchut]

Hopefully they do that - if these are all the same it would be quite ugly.

The second tower is finished and open for leasing (what a time to start that...)






They also redid the street/parking area in front of the building in an odd and inexplicable way. However, they did add a bunch of stop signs, which will hopefully make it so people stop flying around here

[Oron Zchut]

I'm wondering which tower would be next, and when. It was interesting, therefore, to see this soil tester right in the Shoprite lot (close to Marin Blvd)

[citybooster]

I hope this is the last of the identical designs... there's supposed to be 12 towers in all when finished, hopefully the rest more inspirational than the first two. Not that they're horrible, just the first wasn't worthy of a mirror second. And yeah, a couple of 60 story towers(remember "The Metropolitan", the boomerang shaped 67 story tower that was originally designed to go where the first the "VYV" was built?) would be very nice.

[chris08876]

Plans Submitted, Renderings Revealed for Phase Two of Jersey City’s Hudson Exchange

A large Jersey City redevelopment effort could soon be home to one of the city’s tallest buildings as revamped plans for the next phase of Metro Plaza’s revitalization have emerged.


Earlier this month, G&S Investors submitted an application to revitalize what is known as “block 3” of the Harsimus Cove Station Redevelopment Plan. The property’s formal address of 400-420 Marin Boulevard includes a parking lot and a one-story retail building that recently housed a now-shuttered Bed Bath & Beyond store.

The developer has already constructed the first two tower phase of their Hudson Exchange project, which aims to urbanize and revamp an 18-acre parking lot with big box stores called Metro Plaza. With the VYV complex completed across the property, G&S is now moving forward with a 60-story tower designed by Beyer Blinder Belle.

Set to rise just about 634 feet at the corner of Sixth Street and Marin Boulevard, the development includes 802 residential units above a parking garage and retail base. Despite Jersey City’s recently enacted inclusionary housing ordinance, the development’s application does not list any affordable housing component.

The living spaces at the proposed project break down as 80 studios, 399 one-bedrooms, 295 two-bedrooms, and 38 three-bedroom spaces. The garage facility will have room for 538 cars and 422 bicycles, and the retail component is slated to span a massive 118,401 square feet.

he application notes that the retail block includes a “new Shop Rite supermarket” that will essentially replace the current facility across the parking lot. Renderings of the project were first revealed by the Jersey Journal, with G&S Investors Chief Operating Officer Abe Naparstek disclosing that 85,000 square feet of the retail on the second floor will be home to the future Shop Rite.

As part of the property’s development, a plaza is called for along the northwest corner of the parcel. That component is intended to act as a gateway for people visiting the potential Sixth Street Embankment, a long-delayed greenery project that aims to transform the abandoned rail line to an elevated green space.

The proposal will be skyline altering if completed and is significantly taller than the VYV buildings that made up Hudson Exchange’s first phase. The tower would be Jersey City’s fifth tallest building if built (discounting approved but unbuilt developments), ranking behind the 700-foot tall Urby Harborside.

G&S Investors still need to gain approval from the city’s planning board before moving forward, but the company hopes to start construction on the project sometime this year.

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