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Political Insider: Mayor Fulop says the city is prospering and in good handsBy: Listening to Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop's State of the City speech on Tuesday, one gets a sense that the Hudson County seat is slowly coming out of its economic hibernation. The engine that drives the rest of New Jersey has been pushed for more speed and Fulop and company are trying to energize our local track by having installed a friendlier and accommodating development approval process. What everyone hears at these State of Whatevers are upbeat and positive narratives. Jobs, housing, municipal services and safe streets are all the right ingredients for a staying-in-office recipe. In Fulop's case, though, there is more at stake. By ringing the improving economy bell, he is hoping the echo is loud enough to be heard outside of Hudson County. You have to give him credit for effort. While the State of the City was one big "Make It Yours" branding commercial, he's not working with a vivid imagination but real props. While there will always be Downtown projects, major development is making its way up the Palisades toward Journal Square, McGinley Square and the Marion sections of the city. A push for a West Side light rail spur extension would make development of the west bank of the city a certainty. I don't want to list all the projects on the drawing board because you can find them on nj.com/hudson. Read more: http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2 ... _says_the_city_is_in.html
Posted on: 2015/3/1 6:48
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I was at the speech. All this talk of extreme development and population increase, not a single word about transit. All this over-development is just infuriating without any efforts to improve transit.
Posted on: 2015/2/25 14:28
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Fulop, at State of the City address, contrasts Jersey City economy with N.J. under Christie
Posted on: 2015/2/25 5:39
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Fulop puts economy at center stage in annual addressBy JERSEY CITY -- Mayor Steve Fulop put the focus on the city's economy during his second state of the city address tonight, saying his administration's policies are directly responsible for "driving the greatest growth and expansion ever seen in Jersey City's history." While rattling off a list of positive news he shares at almost every public gathering -- the city will soon be home to 17 of the state's 20 tallest buildings, there are 6,000 residential units under construction right now -- Fulop, speaking to a crowd of about 300 inside the City Council council chambers, promised a sharper focus on the inner city and other long-neglected neighborhoods. A $2.25 million grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies will be used to form an "innovation team" focusing on struggling commercial districts along West Side and Central avenues and Martin Luther King Drive, he said, while the proposed City Hall annex will be "the most significant capital investment in Bergen-Lafayette in its history." Read more: http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... ge_in_annual_address.html
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