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Isn't that what real estate developers are? [ba dum ping] I'll be here all week, don't forget to tip your waitress!

On a side note, if you go to fields website and click on their "asset management" / "Investment opportunities" - you get a blank/non-working link: http://www.fieldscapital.com/ Seems like a sure-fire way to bring in investors.

Here's what Fields has to say about it - Good News, it was completed in August:

A hole in the ground is better than a project. If they just dump enough bleach into the hole to stop it from breeding mosquitoes then all is good.

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The "sidewalk" across the street is another perfect example of the "progress"

"Progress you can see!" Yea some one needs to write that on the sign, I agree.

All it takes is creative marketing:

Lovely condominium complete with USE OF POOL!

"Giant Pit Across from 149 Essex (Fulton's Landing) - Who's Responsible?"

I thought this was another thread about big menacing dogs....

that's jersey city for you. Everything could completely change just walking 1-2 blocks. And you have million dollar luxury condos sitting with 1 side facing beautiful/modern streets, while the other side faces a wasteland of weeds and garbage. Case in point: gull's cove.

The site is the former Bel Fuse Company, and is to become a low rise housing project called The Belfuse. The project initially broke ground in January of 2007 at which point the site needed soil remediation. Towards the end of 2008 the remediation process concluded. I believe about 50 units are planned.

I used to live a few doors down from there, on the ugly side of Essex St. The lot being empty isn't such a big deal - the plot of land that 149 Essex was built on, behind the old (and new) Captain Al's, was empty for at least a decade. People used to dump junk there.

If the soil is contaminated that bad, one has to remember that water pipes travel through it !

I do like the black sheeting on the fence - is that to stop people watching ?

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FWIW, I think you got that backwards. It appeared that ozone gas was being injected into the ground to remediate the soil (i.e. oxidize contaminants).

So this has been bugging me for a while, and I just thought I'd vent here. WTF is going on across the street from 149 Essex St?

I took some photos of the work they were doing here back in February of 2008. Here are some of the highlights (click on the pics for larger images):

Pumping something out of the ground:


Into these:


...and Financing brought to you by...:



So that was Feb 2008 - a year an a half ago. Well, i suppose a lot has happened since then, lets check in on our favorite "development", shall we? These were taken a few days ago:



So... they've dug a hole in the ground (and believe me, that's been there for about 6mo at least).

Another angle:


Brought to you by:


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As much as I love piles of rubble, holes in the ground, barbed wire fences (which are falling down in certain spots), etc, at some point isn't enough, enough? If you want to build more condos and/or rentals, go on and do it. If you ran out of money and the bank took the keys, shouldn't the bank do something like clean up this mess? Shouldn't the city demand that you not demolish & excavate a piece of land and then leave it sitting that way for months and months?

What I love about this place is that 3 different entities have signs up advertising their "brand" around this hole in the ground: Fields Development Corp, CH Kaufman Mortgage Company, and none other than the Healy Machine! CH Kaufman (i think) has taken their's down, but the others are definitely still there. Are they trying to take credit for something here? The funniest one is the Healy sign which was placed there probably in the last month or so. It's a shame the sign didn't say: "Progress you can see!" (Who was the genius who put this sign here thinking it enhances Healy's image?)

Finally, from the perspective of residents at 149 Essex (full disclosure, i do NOT live in 149 Essex), aren't they sick of looking out their windows and seeing this mess?

I'm just curious what others think about this...