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This is the current owner of all of the lots?.between Cook and Oakland are these the ones you are asking about?

M & H DEVELOPERS,LLC 12 COOK STREET
M & H DEVELOPERS,LLC 18-20 COOK ST.
M & H DEVELOPERS,LLC 23 OAKLAND AVE.
M & H DEVELOPERS,LLC 21 OAKLAND AVE.
M & H DEVELOPERS,LLC 17 OAKLAND AVE.
M & H DEVELOPERS,LLC 15 OAKLAND AVE.

If so?I don?t know if you know the history of that Cook street property. If not?in 2005 someone wanted to build on the lots. But the County was eyeing up the entire block Cook to Oakland, Newark to Hoboken for a new Court house/ Administration building. The County backed off as can be seen in the below Sept. 2005 Hudson Reporter piece.

County looking elsewhere Sept 2005

The approval by the Planning Board of the Oakland Avenue/Cook Street project was a long time coming for the developers.

Tony Deluco and his partners Harry Persaud and Mohan Myneni of M&H Developers LLC had their application for a hearing in front of the Planning Board postponed several times before it was scheduled for the Aug. 23 meeting. The main obstacle was county officials looking at land across the street from the current Hudson County Administration Building and the county's William Brennan Courthouse on Newark Avenue as the site for a new courthouse.

However, some residents in the area opposed the county's plans, favoring housing instead. Deluco also met with county officials to discuss their plans. But approval was given for the 160,958 square foot development that will also include over 1,500 square feet of retail.

City planning director Robert Cotter said last week that the approval was given since the project met the requirements for development in that area and did not require any variances.

County spokesman Jim Kennelly said last week that the county had stopped considering the site and are looking at property already owned by the county.


Kennelly noted that the county would have had to embark on seizing the property on Oakland and Cook by eminent domain, which would have required paying the property owner and also going against the wishes of the municipality.


http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/fu ... le-chemical-contamination

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I found this from August 2008, since M&H Developers, LCC still own the property maybe they are going forward with it??????

Adjustment board minutes??..

Carried from August 21, 2008

11. Case: Z08-033
Applicant: M & H Developers, LLC
Attorney: Charles J. Harrington, III, Esq.
Address: 12, 18-20 Cook St. & 15, 17, 21 & 23 Oakland Ave.
Block: 527 Lots: 5.C, 5.E, 6, 7, 16, 17, 18.B & 18.C
Zone: O/R Office/Residential District
For: Preliminary/Final Major Site Plan w/ ?c? & ?d? variances to construct an 8-story mixed use building on a through lot (fronting on both Oakland & Cook) with 106 dwelling units, 53 on-site parking spaces, and 2,700 sq.ft. of ground floor commercial space along Oakland Avenue
?c? Variances: Max. building coverage, max. lot coverage, Min. side yard, Min. # of parking
Spaces
?d? Variances: Density
Decision: Approved with Conditions

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Your question would be better answed by SammytheT!

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Just one more interesting thing. Do you know that in the Journal Square 2060 plan Cook Street is going to disappear? The plan is to make a new section of Central Ave. sort of next to Cook Street to connect Central from Hoboken Ave. to Newark Ave. (check Google map and you can see how it fits in)

It's great to see that the President's efforts to bolster the economy is resulting in increased investor confidence..Now let's just hope that the jobs picture gains more momentum!

Got any info on what is going to be built on Cook st. (near the County court house)? They have graded the lot and put down gravel.. but that is it so far.

jsquare will always be second to downtown jc and 3rd to newport for the mere fact that there is no waterfront in the town and newport and downtown have better views of manhattan.

besides that, jsquare is the next area after newport and downtown to hit it big..which is good.

Wow two threads about development in Journal Square in a span of a week. Get me a drink! And they have nothing to do with the big ugly lot! Watch out DTJC we are catching up to you...we are "movin' on up" just like George and Weezy. (rip Sherman Hemsley)

I forgot to post this from a couple of weeks ago. It looks like there is movement on the old AC Chevrolet /Volkswagen land over by St. Paul?s and JFK Blvd. (and behind on Skillman) There were BIG plans to do something with the property a few years ago but the economic meltdown killed them.


JC Planning Board meeting minutes?.June 2012

15. Case: P12-021 Preliminary and Final Major Site Plan w/ c variance
Applicant: Journal Square Estate LLC
Attorney: Charles Harrington
Review Planner: Jeffrey Wenger
Address: 71 Skillman Avenue aka 65-67 Skillman Avenue
Block: 6304 Lot: 2.01
Zone: R-3 Multi Family Mid-rise
Description: New 5 story, 46 unit building with 22 parking spaces.
Variance: Minimum side yard.



16. Case: P12-020 Preliminary & Final Major Site Plan with deviations
Applicant: Journal Square Estate LLC
Attorney: Charles Harrington
Review Planner: Jeffrey Wenger
Address: 3075 Kennedy Blvd.
Block: 6304 Lot: 5
Zone: Journal Square 2060 Redevelopment Plan
Description: Construction of two 6 story buildings with 85 residential units, 19 parking spaces and ground floor retail.
Deviation: Building height, building stepbacks.


(Funny I was going to post something about how JC is letting the owners get away with NOT being on the abandoned property list. Then this news popped up. That property is the second ugliest property in JScare. From looking at the JC Mayoral donor website it seems the owners are Healy contributors so I was wondering if that is how they missed ?The List? . Put in 3075 Kennedy Blvd., Jersey City in Google street view and see what?s in the window?s of the decrepit building. Too funny? Hmmm maybe not.)