If they want to leave, fine. They dont pay any property taxes, and as far as i can tell, do not employ any people at the Caven Point location. I live nearby and walk my dog by there once a week and only once have i seen people training there.

Lets get somebody in the site that will employ people and/or pay property taxes!

In the meantime, some other town can spend their tax dollars building a new facility for them.

BTW I no issues with the Reserve, I just dont see any reason for our local tax money to be used to subsidize the Federal government!

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Trader Joe's then...

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Newark will be getting a Whole Foods, and not Jersey City. Too many people here are satisfied with their Stouffer's!!!

Maybe a Whole Foods will go there.

There is no way in hell residential units will be built there. Barry still has as many or more acres of vacant land in Port Liberte, some even with water views and golf course views. That land (infinitely better than the Army property) has been sitting idle since 2006. The Army property is good for a gas station... ;) They should have sold it to Fireman (Liberty National GC) when the selling was good.

What is the zoning on the land once the army leaves?

And of course, ya gotta love councilman Richie B.....

Yeah, Port Liberte without the water and views, good luck finding a developer for that location challenged spot. Best plan: let artists squat there for a decade and make the area cool, then kick them out and build condos. Time tested method, no?

I live five minutes walking from here what we need is shops, like supermarkets, all the shops are on the other side of town at 440, so people in PL and GV have to hop in a car to shop. As far as no one would be interested in living over there is BS, they said the same thing when they were building PL. Also there is already a ferry service there.

Perfect opportunity to expand Caven Point add more sports fields. The place is overrun every weekend.

My Munchkin soccer players are squeezed into the tiniest spot of bumpy grass possible.

Adult soccer teams have had to fold because it is impossible to get field time in Jersey City / Hudson County.

Lacrosse can't find a space to play.

I'm sure the baseball and football teams are equally desperate for space!

Robin.

Army Reserve seeking to unload 27-acre Jersey City property

By Terrence T. McDonald/The Jersey Journal

The U.S. Army Reserve may be saying bye-bye to Jersey City, with the feds seeking to unload their 27 acre property on Caven Point Road by next April.

Though the lot sits just half a mile west of the well-heeled Port Liberte development, real-estate experts told The Jersey Journal they don?t think there will be much interest from developers in building residential units on the land, which is several miles from the bustling Downtown.

The Army Reserve isn?t selling the land, located at Caven Point Road and Chapel Avenue, but hoping to swap it in a transaction known as a ?real property exchange.? The ?buyer? would take the reserve property and, in exchange, build the reserve a new home within five miles of the current one.

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