A very early-stage proposal. Would have 600 apartments and be built on the parking lot of the Battery View tower (aka 72 Montgomery St aka Tikvah Tower):
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Very similar to how Haus25 was built! Is it also Veris or a different company?
Would be great for infill like this to happen at Montgomery Towers too, far too much surface parking there being so close to PATH. Too bad all the past proposals there have failed.
it’s KRE
The rezoning for this site will face the Planning Board soon. 600-foot height limit, 600 apartments, 5,000 sq ft of ground floor retail plus a café. 90 of the apartments will be income-restricted at very low, low, and moderate incomes.
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This rezoning ordinance was withdrawn without explanation from the last meeting of the city council.
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The ordinance was adopted by the City Council on March 20. Next step is Planning Board consideration of the actual site plan (which will be just a formality now, but will give us the first indication of the actual design and specifics)
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Updated the floor count from ~55 to 56 based on a Planning Board Site Plan Application filed last week:
Subdivision of existing Lot 1 into new Lots 1.01 and 1.02; Construction of a new 56-story mixed-use building containing 600 residential units, approx. 2,788 SF of retail space, amenities and 181 garage parking spaces with open space plaza on Lot 1.02; Construction of new surface parking area and open space plaza on Lot 1.01 with existing residential building to remain.
Building Height Proposed (feet): 600
Building Height Proposed (stories): 56
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Here are some elevations and massing models of the building from a shadow study by Dresdner Robin. Total height is 635 ft according to the elevation.
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A notable feature that I’m not sure you can see above is the ivy-covered green wall on the podium. I believe this will be a first for JC. Should look nice, and hopefully more of them are incorporated in future JC buildings. Too bad it’s not covering more of the podium however.
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Plans Revealed as Jersey City to Consider 56-Story Tower Downtown | Jersey Digs
Jersey City’s Planning Board is slated to hear two applications for the project in the coming days. The first will subdivide the lot into two portions separating the open space component from the towers while the tower application is seeking eight total variances from current zoning.
A special meeting of the Jersey City Planning board is being held on February 4th and both portions of the 72 Montgomery project are tentatively scheduled to be heard during the proceedings.
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While this is a great infill project, it irks me so much that so little of the ground floor frontage is retail.
I guess it is better than nothing but it is pretty close.
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The lobby/mailroom could be another small corner store, but other than that a lot of this stuff was required by the city or by fire code or the utilities: loading dock, mechanicals, parking driveway, fire/pump room, water room, fuel pump room, fire command center, etc
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So much parking…that whole podium could have been something useful. Multiple modes of public transit within walking distance. Glad to see the affording units though! And it’s nice to see all this infill along Montgomery/ CC Drive. Looking more and more dense.
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They were required to replace the parking in the Battery View lot, so they had to build a garage driveway anyway. 62 spots for Battery View, and the remaining 109 parking spots are for the 600 apartments. 1 parking spot per 6 units is a pretty low parking ratio.
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When are they breaking ground ?
When (and if) they get a construction loan. In other words, they don’t even know yet. Projects usually only start trying to get loans after they are approved by the Planning Board, and this one hasn’t even been heard yet.
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Approved last night at the Planning Board.
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