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Ok I know where its at across from Prep. Is 109 Columbus where Harborside Plaza 4 was gonna be?
Nvm lol I found out its the place around the corner from Hard Grove that was stalled with the foundation poured.
No, 105 York is between Washington and Warren...closer to the Gotham apartments (actually, I think the overall project site includes the parking lot that is a the intersection of York & Warren, directly across the street from the Gotham building).
FYI - 109 Columbus was on the agenda at tonight's Planning Board meeting (I did not attend though), so it looks like construction might finally resume on that project by year's end. The developer is calling for 24 residential units instead of having the entire building dedicated to office space as the original plans included.
Ok I know where its at across from Prep. Is 109 Columbus where Harborside Plaza 4 was gonna be?
Nvm lol I found out its the place around the corner from Hard Grove that was stalled with the foundation poured.
Last edited by JCMAN320; May 11th, 2011 at 01:45 AM.
Moncao coming into shape
Monaco Gets Restaurant & Bank as First Retail Tenants; Ribbon-Cutting Slated for Thursday
By Jon Whiten • May 11th, 2011 • Category: Blog, Food, News
Developer Roseland Property Company says two retail spaces at its new Monaco luxury rental building have been leased, as it prepares to host an official ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday morning.
VB3, which is described as “an Italian pizza bar,” has leased a 3,800 square foot unit, and Sovereign Bank has leased a 4,100-square-foot unit. Both tenants will open “later this year,” according to a release from the developer.
“Monaco’s location on the light rail and Washington Boulevard lend a significant advantage to retailers in terms of attracting new business,” says Carl Goldberg, Partner in Roseland Property Company. “Retailers will benefit from an instant audience of hotel and luxury apartments above, office users, and waterfront visitors.”
The project, which was originally slated to be condominiums but was later switched to apartments, is a collaboration between Roseland, Garden State Development and Hartz Mountain Industries. The development features two 50-story towers, with 524 residential units, 12,000 square feet of ground-level retail space and a 10-story parking deck.
Developers, elected officials and others will be at the Washington Boulevard development Thursday morning for the official ribbon-cutting ceremony. With the addition of the Monaco, Jersey City now has the state’s tallest buildings in three main categories: rental building, office building (Goldman Sachs) and condo building (Trump Plaza). The building started leasing in March, and rents range from $2,250 for studio apartments to $9,000 for three-bedroom penthouses.
“The opening of Monaco sets a new standard for rental luxury in Jersey City but more importantly, it is a milestone for the apartment rental market and for Jersey City,” Goldberg says. “Monaco is the first luxury rental to hit the market in years, and the pent-up demand for high-end product is deeper than anyone could have anticipated.”
The ribbon-cutting is slated for 10 am on Thursday.
http://www.jerseycityindependent.com...-for-thursday/
Last edited by JCMAN320; May 14th, 2011 at 07:52 PM.
Boon for young JC families!
Tribeca Pediatrics & Tribeca Parenting Expanding to Jersey City; New Downtown Location Opens Next Week
By Jon Whiten • May 13th, 2011 • Category: Blog, News
As spring has come to Jersey City, Downtown’s Hamilton Park has been filled with children — in strollers and on feet, bikes and scooters — day after day. With that in mind, it is easy to understand why the latest addition to the neighboring Hamilton Square development — the first New Jersey office of Tribeca Pediatrics and Tribeca Parenting — is creating a huge buzz among Jersey City’s parents.
“With the huge influx of residents to Jersey City over the last decade, we recognized there was a significant need for more pediatricians,” says Eric Silverman, one of the two brother/partners in Silverman, the development company behind Hamilton Square. “It struck us that what would really round-out our development was a top pediatric practice that would cater to the burgeoning parent community in Downtown Jersey City.”
So Eric and his brother Paul met with Tribeca Pediatrics founder Dr. Michel Cohen about opening a practice here.
“He loved the idea, and thought the setting was perfect,” Paul Silverman says.
Cohen has already crossed the East River with his business, which he started more than 20 years ago out of his home, and currently has Brooklyn offices in Williamsburg, Boerum Hill, Park Slope, and Fort Greene, in addition to Manhattan locations in Chelsea, the Upper East Side and, of course, Tribeca. The doctor says he was convinced to cross the Hudson River in part due to the migration of many New York City families to Jersey City.
“Jersey City has changed so much in the last ten years, and we’ve seen a significant number of New York families moving to the area,” Cohen says. “We are thrilled to open this location at Hamilton Square as our first in New Jersey, and look forward to providing our accessible healthcare approach to the community.”
Known for its low-intervention philosophy where “less medicine is often the best medicine,” Tribeca Pediatrics creates what it dubs a “uniquely hip, playful environment” that aims to have kids forget they are even in a doctor’s office. The Jersey City location will be led by Dr. Monika Symms, a New Jersey native, and it opens Monday, May 16.
“Frankly, I can’t wait,” Hamilton Park resident Noreen Kelly-Najah says. “Just knowing that I can walk my sick child over to the doctor’s office gives me incredible peace of mind.”
A hallmark of Tribeca Pediatrics is its commitment to “parent support,” hence the 2010 founding of its affiliate organization, Tribeca Parenting, which will be joining Tribeca Pediatrics in the new Jersey City location.
Available to all parents, not just those who use the pediatric practice, Tribeca Parenting offers classes based on specific parenting needs, from pregnancy through the challenges of the teen years. Childbirth education, newborn care, and CPR classes will kick-off the series in Jersey City, with new topics added to the roster over time.
“Parents need resources for the various stages their children go through. Hospitals and other facilities put the emphasis on pregnancy classes, but that’s just the beginning of the road,” says Erica Lyon, Tribeca Parenting’s consulting director. “We’ve developed our curriculum to age-up with families so no matter what the parenting issue may be chances are there is a resource here. Parents need a trusted, non-judgmental guide to help navigate this territory as there is often so little support for them after their baby is born.”
Jayne Freeman contributed to this report.
THE DETAILS
Tribeca Pediatrics & Tribeca Parenting; 21 McWilliams Place. For more information on classes and hours, call 201-706-7175 or click here.
http://www.jerseycityindependent.com...ens-next-week/
JC Gaining Arts Center and Beer Garden
Enormous Contemporary Art Center, Host to Galleries, Foundations and — Yes — a Beer Garden, Opens This Weekend in Jersey City
By Jon Whiten • May 13th, 2011 • Category: Arts, Blog, Food, News
One of the most significant fine art and arts-business events in years is set for this weekend in Jersey City, but it is not happening where you likely think it is. It’s not Downtown, but the industrial outskirts of Journal Square — rife with raw industrial loft space (some of which has already been refashioned into condos by CANCOlofts) — that will be home to the new 125,000-square-foot Mana Contemporary Art Center, which celebrates its grand opening Sunday.
The space at 888 Newark Avenue is home to The Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation and Trinkhalle Restaurant, and brings together artist studios, performance and exhibition spaces, and art-storage facilities all under one roof.
If the name Mana rings a bell to Jersey City art scenesters, there’s a reason. Mana Fine Arts previously operated out of the Moishe’s Moving Company building under the New Jersey Turnpike extension in Downtown Jersey City; the space was an art-storage facility, and it also hosted a number of exhibitions in the first floor gallery, including the 2006 studio tour show What Have You Got to Say?
Mana Fine Arts later secured the massive space at 888 Newark Avenue, and the owners decided to bring in an art foundation to act as a flagship for the building. That foundation ended up being The Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation, which aims to bridge the gap between artists, collectors, galleries, museums and cultural institutions and is now headquartered on the sixth floor of Mana Contemporary. The center’s owners say they plan on eventually bringing five more arts foundations to the building — one on each floor.
“The foundation will create a community and the business will build around it,” Mana Contemporary founder and director (and former Moishe’s CEO) Eugene Lemay says. “There are thousands of galleries in New York. We’re not trying to compete with that. But not everyone shows the eyes of the collector.”
Several floors of the center will be dedicated to art storage, others will include customizable artist studios, and Mana has just announced a partnership with Videoart.net to establish a new screening room dedicated to showcasing contemporary international video art and experimental film. A sculpture garden, theater partnership and artist residency program are all reportedly in the works as well.
And to top it all off, the renowned Austrian chef Kurt Gutenbrunner is bringing his latest creation — Trinkhalle Restaurant — to the center. The restaurant and beer garden will feature a “modern interpretation of Austrian cuisine” from Gutenbrunner, the chef and co-owner of NYC restaurants Wallsé, Blaue Gans and Café Kristall, as well as a series of rotation art exhibitions and performances.
“We want every form of the arts here,” Lemay says. “Now we’re not just an art moving and storage company.”
Photo of Mana Contemporary’s soft opening courtesy of Mana Contemporary.
THE DETAILS
Mana Contemporary Art Center celebrates its Grand Opening this Sunday, May 15 with an all-day celebration that features tours of the Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation and the exhibition on display there, live music from David Sheetrit, DJ Nick Cohen, (U)nity and Hazmat Modine, and the grand opening of Trinkhalle, with an open bar from 4 to 5 pm. For a full schedule of the day’s events, and to RSVP, go here: http://www.artmanafest.com/
45 Fourteenth Street to Break Ground this Month
According to a doc on the city of Jersey City website, the LeFrak organization plans on breaking ground on a 17-story rental apartment building at 45 Fourteenth Street this month. Its supposed to have 158 apartments and around 5,500 sf of ground-floor retail space. I haven't been able to find a rendering of the building, but just thought I'd pass along the info.
833 Jersey Ave goes U/C
I drove past the site today and it has been re-excavated, with dozens of piles already hammered into the ground. It looks like the Lackawanna Warehouse is well on it's way to having a much taller, 20-story neighbor. It sure will be fascinating to see what happens when such a large highrise building goes up in an area that currently has the feel of a 'ghost town' and is filled with empty lots at the moment.
Does anybody here know if they have a 2030 projected skyline look with all the completed projects featured?
A 2030 skyline plan? I doubt it. How can you guess what will be built, how tall? Or even if its all over? Remember, it was the great depression that stalled JC at 320,000 residents.
Im not saying its over,I believe Jersey City will Manhattanize and become Nj's largest city.
Jersey city's Newport has become a self sustaining magnet for large residential developments. The city is seen as"wall street west". Jersey City is considered an honorary part of manhattan. At the A&P supermarket next to the Holland Tunnel, as you exit the store, on the wall, are Newport Real estate flyers( more like brochures). You may like the maps of Newport, using colors to denote what's proposed, already built, what's approved for construction, as well as vacant land.
Last edited by Newarkguy; June 13th, 2011 at 05:07 PM.
A Guess , a few cities have them..... I think all the open parking spots in Downtown Jersey City will be gone and converted to Dense Garage / High Rise Retail and condos. I do think Jersey City will overtake Newark , but what do you mean by Manhattanize?Originally Posted by Newarkguy
Whats the story with the Canal Crossing Redevelopment , when is that supposed to pick up?
Its a term to describe a city with many new skyscrapers. Manhattan is the urban standard( Chicago also mentioned ) for cities with dense development, yet walkable with Mass transit. The term is also used as a negative when reffering to developments considered too big for a township. Especially a 15 story tower in a leafy suburb, as example....." The village needs a major redevelopment plan, but we don't want to ruin the town's charm"..."we don't want to manhattanize the village square."Its a good thing, in JC'scase.
Downtown JC Construction Update
Here's an update of the construction situation in downtown:
Cast Iron Lofts (833-837 Jersey Ave):
More equipment arrived this past week:
Concrete has been poured over a few select sets of pilings to begin to form the foundation of the builidng:
Excavation around a set of pilings:
In the distance in the photo below, you can see dozens and dozens of pilings lining the site along 18th Street:
BelFuse (Paulus Hook):
Work apparently re-started after being stalled for several years:
The site was re-cleared:
Newport:
Infrastructure work in Newport for new roads, buildings, & park; the fence covered with artificial turf along Washington Blvd was finally taken down after being in place for most of the past decade:
Infill/Reconstruction:
A few buildings have recently been re-constructed and made taller as part of gut-renovation projects:
(Newark Ave near Grove Street):
(Monmouth @ Third Street):
Last edited by tbal; June 19th, 2011 at 10:41 PM.
Whats proposed for this site...
Its not going to be a Parking lot forever ?
DSCN2327 by Nexis4Jersey09, on Flickr
Whats the latest Scoop on the Powerhouse project & what is planned for the Parking lot infront of it...
DSCN2325 by Nexis4Jersey09, on Flickr
What is proposed for this lot on Washington Street?
DSCN2334 by Nexis4Jersey09, on Flickr
That big parking lot as you can see is not used. That whole lot from Harborside Plaza 5 to the light-rail ROW and from Greene St. to Hudson St. is owned by Mack-Cali and is the site for Harborside 6&7. The project is approved but obviously waiting for the office market on this side to bounce back.
The Powerhouse is still being worked on to stabilize it on the Washington St. side. The project will move forward once the PA relocates the substation on Washington. That triangular piece of land you photographed is one of the proposed sites for the substation.
Sorry I haven't been on in a while my family is dealing with a health issue and one of my best friends passed away so my mind has been elsewhere. Great construction update Tbal. 109 Columbus got a new fence and new activity so that will get started soon as well.
Last edited by JCMAN320; June 22nd, 2011 at 12:27 AM.
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