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$40M state grant moves high-rise project forward New Newport development will include 20 percent affordable housingJun 21, 2015 A handful of Jersey City kids were posed in front of the old Pep Boys store just north of the Power House building on this weekday in June at the start of the summer school recess. The building had ceased functioning several years ago, and now was a platform for local graffiti artists and the back drop for selfies.
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Advance Auto Parts I think. There's a great selection of local auto shops downtown. For example I order tires from tirerack and have them delivered and fitted at Ralphs on Erie. Oil changes and maintenance I get done at A M Auto on 6th at a fraction of the cost of Pep Boys or anywhere else. Amazon is a better shop for general parts/accessories. There's a Sears Auto at Newport Mall or a Pep Boys at Hudson mall if you want to be charged a lot for sub-standard parts and service.
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There is a similar car shop next to Pathmark on Grand street.
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Where's Yvonne going to park her car fleet?
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Grove St Bicycles. (You seriously didn't ever send people to Pep Boys?)
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didn't I read somewhere no one down there has a car... oops.
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There is a sign on the door telling people to go to one of the other Pep Boys locations, one on 440 and the other on Kennedy Blvd somewhere.
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Wait, pep boys is closed? Shit, where should I tell people to go to get car stuff now?
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I actually did get a response, the side facing the light rail has no retail, it will be loading decks/garage entry. One other side will connect to an adjacent building (the Southern side) and the other 2 will have retail. The phase 2 adjacent building will have retail on the Southern side.
So 3 sides of retail. I still hate to have a dead side of the building, but 3 sides are OK. Hopefully several of the buildings will share the parking, that would help.
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I walked by yesterday and noticed that the Pep Boys is officially closed. Windows covered in brown paper and everything. Is it slated to be demolished already? I thought it was a few years away.
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Too much parking. Last thing we need in downtown are more vacant parking garages.
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And zoning limits restrict the supply of new housing, thus generating more wealth for property owners. You got part of your statement right: Rent control in Manhattan allows for middle class people. End of sentence. Rent regulations are the only thing that are keeping middle-class people in New York City.
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It's 'over 12k' (not that 2k makes a difference). If the stores are fronting a parking deck, they're going to be small.
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It says 10k ft of retail. That's not a lot. on a Manhattan Avenue that would be four 25' storefronts. But Manhattan commercial spaces tend to be much deeper than in JC. As I understand it one of the problems for restaurants in the historic areas is the small spaces make i hard to fit in a decent kitchen and enough seating to do well. Hence Skinners and several others being multifloor.
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Well it depends... They don't have to wrap the retail around all sides of the building (I wish they would though). Still, there are at least 4 openings on that side that could easily be store windows. They could also easily be garage openings, it's hard to tell, though I don't know why they would have 4 + of them. I actually have the developer's email address. I'll see if he'll answer the question.
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Check out Pic #5 on the link to the NJ.com article. Adjacent to the light rail tracks, that looks like a massive parking structure with no outward facing retail. Am I looking at it wrong?
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So the people who claim the sky is falling when new buildings include parking are full of it?
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I'f I'm not mistaken there is commercial on the first floor. Kind of like what is on Grove St with the subway/GNC tucked into the parking deck.
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New condo towers in Manhattan also have parking -- but it would be nice to have some commercial on the first floors!
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How the hell does saying that rent control is a piss poor solution to the housing problem equal eugenics? If "society" want affordable housing "society" should pay for it. Rent control in much of Manhattan allows middle class people who won that lottery to transfer wealth from their landlord to themselves and allow them to buy weekend homes and private schools they would not be otherwise able to afford. Forcing landlords to solve the affordable housing problem makes as much as sense as the longtime hospital policy of forcing the solvent patients to subsidize the insolvent sick, rather than society at large footing the bill.
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Its so depressing seeing another tower with an obnoxiously oversized parking monstrosity at its base. I can understand the city accepting any and all architecture in the 80s when there was little demand for new buildings, but when there is obviously a boom, there should be someone in the "urban planning" dept of the city if there is one, who can suggest something to prevent destroying the streetscape for the walking public.
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I wonder how many JClisters would vote YES, if there was a referendum to cull, liquidate, 'social cleanse', euthanize our poor, working poor, aged, disabled and on welfare?
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Rent control is against basic economic logic. It just encourages system-gaming, disinvestment and wealth transfer from later arrivals to early arrivals. The solution to demand is not restricted supply, it's more supply.
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It will become a playground for people with money and another forces those working on the poverty line (which is no-one on JClist from what I gather) to be painted into a corner. Instead of luxury apartments, why not 'rent control' apartments for the majority of struggling families and individuals ... this would include those that have retired, on welfare or disability pensions !
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No one lives there. It's just a terrible layout of land that can be better used for retail and residences. I can't wait for it to be completed.
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When we define livability as luxury, or point to a millionaire?s playground as a worthwhile model, then our conversations of how to improve our communities will always come at the expense of the poor. If livability means transforming the places where people already live into places where more wealthy people want to, then I hope it?s not what
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Looks OK other than the hideous parking structure that completely disengages the streetscape. Will developers ever learn?
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Developers reveal plans for 35-story tower at Jersey City Pep Boys siteBy March 03, 2015 at 5:44 PM JERSEY CITY -- New renderings show developers' plans for a 35-story residential tower on the site of the Downtown Pep Boys, part of a large-scale development called Hudson Exchange West proposed for that area. If approved by city planning officials, the tower would house 421 units and include over 12,000 square feet of retail space on a four-acre site just north of the Harsimus Cove light rail station. Read more: http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... t&utm_medium=facebook
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