jklm wrote:
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140 Bay - rehabilitated - full occupancy, retail and residential.

150 Bay - rehabilitated - residential, future retail and commercial occupancy

CitySide Archive - some commercial use - possibly moving more of their business back into this location. There is some noise coming out of the first floor (some kind of cleanup/construction going on).
Homeless will move back when the weather improves.

Powerhouse - colorfully boarded up awaiting next phase of project

Butler Brothers - owner/developer letting it rot with possible illegal tenants living in the Bay Street side of building.

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all other buildings in area are occupied with residential and commercial tenants.

JPhurst wrote:
1. No, there is a mixture of light industry and residential use. 150 Bay Street has been partially converted and includes both residential on the upper floors and the self storage units on the lower floors. Other places have or have recently had commerical tenants. Some of the landlords have thrown their tenants out because they were expecting to either convert to residential or raze the buildings.

2. Not sure what you mean by massive 9$$$). Any change to the buildings, whether it would be a rehabilitation or demolition and replacement would be expensive. Large scale construction generally is.

3. The project has had it's fits and starts, like many large projects in Jersey City, particularly in this economy.

JPhurst wrote:
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jsqfunk wrote:
so is it fair to say that
1. no one is living or working in these warehouses as of today?
2. before anyone could live or work in these warehouses a massive ($$$) rehab job would have to be done, including environmental remediation
3. the powerhouse rehab has stalled

1. No, there is a mi...

2. Not sure what you mean by massive 9$$$). Any change to the buildings, whether it would be a rehabilitation or demolition and replacement would be expensive. Large scale construction generally is.

3. The project h....

jsqfunk wrote:
so is it fair to say that
1. no one is living or working in these warehouses as of today?
2. before anyone could live or work in these warehouses a massive ($$$) rehab job would have to be done, including environmental remediation
3. the powerhouse rehab has stalled

ianmac47 wrote:
About fifteen years ago the first proposal for 111 First Street surfaced. The plan called for keeping the existing warehouse and building a new tower on top of the structure. This proposal proved offensive to a coalition of preservationists despite the fact that the plan called for renovating and preserving most of the existing structure. After a series of lawsuits delaying the project, the developer gave up on the initial proposal and came back with a plan to raze the entire warehouse and build a new tower twice as tall as the original proposal. Again, preservationists were even more appalled and more lawsuits were filed and the city became involved spending thousands of taxpayer dollars on legal fees and again the project was delayed. Ultimately the developer won the right to demolish the warehouse. The only trouble was, the court proceedings took so long that when the warehouse finally came down the housing bubble had popped and the financing for new towers evaporated. So now 111 First Street is neither a historic warehouse nor is it a new tower. Instead its an empty fenced in lot. Well played.

Rorschach wrote:
I've lived in Jersey City since 1968. And the truth is there is neither public or private monies available to rehab those warehouses. I would much prefer to see development on the order of what's been done in Weehawken, West New York and Edgewater along the Hudson.

The idea of rehabbing the warehouses is an elitist's pipe dream.

pferm201 wrote:
and how exactly are they useless. They are buildings that are still intact, with issues nonetheless(which can be fixed). Only someone who isn't from the city would want to see old architecture want to see it taken down. Every great and beautiful city has found a way to use their old buildings and change them into something great. Having these buildings gives us our own distinction and stops all the buildings of generic buildings being built, making the city worst than before.