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Developer breaks ground on 309-unit project in Jersey City's Lafayette section
Updated 3:08 PM; Posted 3:01 PM

By Ron Zeitlinger The Jersey Journal

Ironstate Development Company, known for its Downtown Jersey City projects, broke ground this week on a mixed-use building in the Lafayette neighborhood.

The $84 million project, undertaken with joint venture partners Brookfield Property Group and Landmark Developers, is expected to include 309 residential units, 3,800 square feet of street-level retail space and 8,000 square feet of commercial space that will serve as the new headquarters for the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency.

The planned five-story building, at 100 Monitor Street, will occupy a now-vacant 2.7-acre site near the Liberty State Park Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Station and within walking distance of the Liberty Science Center and Liberty State Park.

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... a.html#incart_river_index

Yvonne wrote:
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hero69 wrote:
yvonne, i thought you might like to know that george washington's tooth is on display at the fraunces tavern museum in manhattan.

Yvonne, I, and George Washington should use capital letters.

user1111 wrote:
Jersey City is full of haters. Go suck on some rocks!

brewster wrote:
Using the Bergen Arches for a light rail line from Secaucus Junction park-n-ride lots to downtown Waterfront is a far better idea. There's no reason to encourage more cars to come downtown.

Yvonne wrote:
Newark is known for crime and Newark has many adult entertainments also known as strip clubs. Certain things feed off each other, high crime areas and adult entertainment. Property values will drop in a heart beat if this city becomes another Newark.

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hero69 wrote:
times square in the 80's had character. lol. besides, i don't think the times square crowd of the 80's was looking for burlesqueQuote:

Yvonne wrote:
I agree that there are worse things on the internet but I also remember Times Square in the 1960s to the 1980s. It was crime ridden due to the strip clubs, peep shows and other sexual attractions. As archaic as those laws are, they might prevent JC from becoming a Times Square from the past.

Only someone on jclist can romanticize crime as having character. It was a sleazy time.

Yvonne wrote:
I agree that there are worse things on the internet but I also remember Times Square in the 1960s to the 1980s. It was crime ridden due to the strip clubs, peep shows and other sexual attractions. As archaic as those laws are, they might prevent JC from becoming a Times Square from the past.

K-Lo2 wrote:
Let's see where it actually sells before proclaiming trends.

Stringer wrote:

Leasing Caven Point would be disaster; Area should remain natural | Feedback

By Letters To The Editor The Jersey Journal

Caven Point a critical natural habitat

I have just written the NJ Department of Environmental Protection to implore the Office of Leases to keep Caven Point (in Liberty State Park) as a natural wilderness area. It would be disastrous to lease it to Liberty National Golf Course for any length of time. Currently managed as protected wildlife habitat, Caven Point includes one of the last relatively undisturbed marsh areas of the Hudson River Estuary and a long natural beach.

Being off limits to people (and their dogs) from March 1 through September, the Point provides critical and unique habitat for wildlife in the area because it is relatively undisturbed. These existing benefits, which will get only more valuable as time passes, need to be factored into any land-use planning for the area.

http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2 ... disaster_area_should.html

JCGuys wrote:
Return to state control and cut administrative expenses.

Dinger wrote:
I looked at this building with a potential buyer and my PE a few years back. It was a leaning tower then but fully occupied. If I recall correctly, this was one of two buildings sharing a common party wall. The owners of the buildings could not get their act together. In any event, at least then, the owner I met was a greedy bastard and the asking price was far too high for the project to make any sense given the height restrictions for the lot and the aforementioned issues with the party wall. Guess it never did sell after all.

user1111 wrote:
Just received my letter, my taxes went from $6,100.00 to $4,500.00. We Greenvillians have been overpaying for too long.

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hero69 wrote:
it ain't pretty but at least its not another boxed tower totally lacking in an type of imagination, imo

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tern wrote:
Astonishingly ugly! I appreciate that can be said about most of these modern towers, but your average Lefrak tower, though bad, looks nicer than this carbuncle.

Soviet style brutalist architecture, out of scale and with no redeeming qualities.

On the rear side, which you can't see in the photos, is a huge windowless wall with channels of cinder-block covered with some green siding material. I can only pray that they intend to construct some other structure to cover that part, as the way it looks now is dire.

Robin.

Talk about cutting the nose to spite the face. Favoring an ugly building over a traditional (or, boring) one seems like an odd stand.

I am with the others. I have watched this building go up and it always struck me as oddly out of place: too large for its location, aesthetically it clashes with its surrounding, and the design itself is not at all visually pleasant. Complete and total FAIL.

tern wrote:
Astonishingly ugly! I appreciate that can be said about most of these modern towers, but your average Lefrak tower, though bad, looks nicer than this carbuncle.

Soviet style brutalist architecture, out of scale and with no redeeming qualities.

On the rear side, which you can't see in the photos, is a huge windowless wall with channels of cinder-block covered with some green siding material. I can only pray that they intend to construct some other structure to cover that part, as the way it looks now is dire.

Robin.

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hero69 wrote:
we really need to get bergen-lafayette, west bergen and greenville gentriyfing more. sad to see these parts of jersey city are not benefiting from jersey city's success and growing popularity

I have to ask: have you ever actually stepped foot in BL? Because if you have done so recently, you should have noticed all the young professionals living in the area, the nice cars parked on some streets, along with new developments, some of them of substantial size.