looks all banged up
Here are a few more renders plus a diagram of the location of the new towers. I wish they would redevelop the whole area like what happening at Hudson Exchange in Jersey City
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I recently saw a cool update on NJ’s under construction state park, The Greenway, which is basically 9 miles long x 100 ft wide from Montclair to Jersey City.
The update is on all NJDEP socials but here is the youtube:
And more info about it: https://dep.nj.gov/parksandforests/urban-state-parks-initiatives/greenway/
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792 Communipaw Avenue: approved by planning board
Five floors, 38 units with 4 being affordable units, more than 2,000 square feet of commercial space, a green roof, and storage for 21 bikes but no vehicle parking.
The site currently:
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The 792 Communipaw can go into the relevant neighborhood thread
The Allenhurt Power Station redeveloped is a new development at 313 Main Street in Allenhurst, NJ set to include 28 luxury townhomes and an apartment with 62 units. There will be 23 affordable units within the 3.3 acre site. A third future phase could come with 30 residences in a condominium building. The project has just gotten a 49 million dollar construction loan so work could begin soon.
Facing Main Street
Townhomes on Hume Street
The building on site has already been demolished and work might begin soon.
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The Toms River Community Medical Center‘s 6 story, 444,000 square foot expansion has been approved and is part of a four phase expansion plan.
Site of the project located on Route 37
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The residents of Union County, NJ are currently fighting against a proposed $1.8 billion data center that would be located at 2000 Galloping Hill Road in Kenilworth, NJ. The data center would be 392,600 square feet with a planned capacity of 250 megawatts and a completion date of 2027.
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As a thought experiment, I wonder how many extra units Palisades Park would have to give the developer in order to get them to extend the light rail to here at their own expense a la the developer-paid-for London Underground Northern Line Battersea expansion. Based on the original HBLR light rail expansion plan, it would be about 4.4 miles and three stations (91st St, Ridgefield and Grand Av/Palisades Park).
Since all of the red tape that comes with federal funding drives up infrastructure costs, I took a quick look at other non-federally funded rail transit projects, and…there aren’t many. St. Louis Metrolink is being expanded to Mid-America Airport in Illinois for $98 million (5.1 mi of mostly one track light rail similar to the HBLR with one station). Assuming a $15 million for the station + $16 million per track mile that would mean a cost of ~$186 million for a two track, three station extension to Palisades Park. The Mid-America extension is on much more open land but the rail alignment for the HBLR already exists and the regulatory environment in Illinois probably isn’t that different from New Jersey. Also a two-track line should typically cost less per track-mile than a one-track line.
Maybe Ridgefield or Jersey City or the counties could throw in some money or 91st St could be infilled later to reduce costs, but I wonder how much extra development rights the developer would need to offset an extra +/- $200 million in upfront costs (though the higher rents/sales prices due to being next to a light rail station will help too).
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Some JC population info: Jersey City has almost certainly passed more people that Pittsburgh proper at this point, they are each around 307k. And Jersey City also has more people that St. Louis proper (STL once had 856k and now it has 278k, yikes!). Jersey City has added about 90k people since bottoming out in 1980 at 223k. Jersey City’s peak population in a census was 317k in 1930 so it’s going to overtake that in the not too distant future. Not bad for a city of 14.75 sq miles in land area.
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