I would gladly ship any one of a dozen cookie-cutter high rises uptown in exchange for having the Loews downtown. Any day of the week. You can have the Trump building AND that hideous Soviet-era monstrosity, Grove Pointe, in exchange for the Loews.

As for the Boys and Girls Club building being a blighted structure? Are you serious?



Four years ago it didn't make your list, Ian:

http://jclist.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=156358

It may not be as nice as the renovated The Rocket on Newark, but it is a functioning building that for many years housed a popular school (until they had to expand). Blighted? Hardly.

Now it will be torn down, and in its place will be Gulls Cove II: The Reckoning. Will anyone be happier?

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Are you actually saying you wish the Loews theater was torn down for some poorly designed tower to be in its place so the JSQ could be more prosperous now? I know the progress is basically at a stand still, but as downtown fills up and people get priced out, JSQ is next in line and will be developed. Thank God more developers and planners dont think the way you do. The theater is one of the few things to be proud of in this city with some actual character and history.

Attention all Downtown JC developers!

How about throwing a freakin bone to Journal Square? We have all been left flapping in the wind by our city leaders since the 80?s. What?s a few million in brick and mortar to you? Chicken scratch! Just order extra material for the two new buildings (18 Park and 1 Canal) mentioned in this thread or cut out some of the 1,100 apartments and ship them up to JScare..please!

Hey Barry boys wouldn?t it be nice adding Journal Square to your billion dollar portfolio? It would surely impress.

Current assets include the Shipyard, 333 River Street and Hudson Square, three mixed-use waterfront development projects totaling over 2,000 residences, 125,000 square feet of retail, 2,200 enclosed parking units, marina, yacht club and ferry terminal in Hoboken, New Jersey; Port Liberte, 50 Columbus and 225 Grand, three mixed-use developments of over 2,000 luxury residences along the Hudson River in Jersey City, New Jersey; Pier Village, a vibrant mixed-use development of over 550 residences, boutique hotel, 100,000 square feet of restaurants, retail stores and beach club, and over 1,000 parking units on the Atlantic Ocean in Long Branch, New Jersey; and The W Hoboken, an iconic new 25-story hotel featuring 225 guest rooms and 40 condominium residences on the Hoboken waterfront facing midtown Manhattan; and the soon-to-open extraordinary W Marrakech Hotel.

We don?t care that your father was jailed for some shady dealings..like paying bribes in exchange for help winning state and federal grants for development projects in Hoboken. In fact we all loved it because he brought down that slime bag Hudson County Executive Robert Janiszewski.


I must admit I often regret putting my name on the countless ?Save the Loew's Theater? petitions in the early 80?s. Journal Square was going to be THE place for development not DTJC. WE were first. JScare could?a been a contender. If only Hartz Mountain built that 10 million dollar complex on the Loew?s site who knows what the Square would be now. (ok so we wouldn?t have those ?great? once every few month?s classic movie showings, but come on you can always catch them on cable) Just think all of you DTJC folks may just have been livin? up here now. (Probably still dreaming about a Trader Joe?s though. )

It will also allow for the continuation of Grove Street into Liberty Harbor and further integrate LH into the rest of downtown. I think this is a very positive development on all counts.

Its not wholly altruistic. Moving the Boys and Girls Club means redeveloping the existing lot, extending Grove Street into the development and building a higher density residential tower in place of the old Boys and Girls Club. No doubt gifting the Boys and Girls Club new, modern space will help reinvent it as a community asset while simultaneously allowing for a great deal of profit to be generated from the redevelopment of the old site. Not only does this eliminate a blighted structure from heart of the Liberty Harbor Redevelopment Area, but also allows the developer to profit from the change.

Nice to see a developer and source of financing not afraid to share their project with a non-profit recreation center. Is it a bad assumption that some of these kids come from families that would qualify for moderate income housing?

Developers break ground for new Boys & Girls Clubs facility in Downtown Jersey City

Published: Thursday, June 28, 2012, 6:48 AM
Updated: Thursday, June 28, 2012, 6:54 AM

By The Jersey Journal

Developers broke ground yesterday on a new home for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Hudson County that is slated to open in the fall of 2014, The Jersey Journal reports.

After 30 years at its current facility in an adapted warehouse, the new custom quarters are part of a new 11-story, residential and retail development, with 422 rental apartments, to be called 18 Park in Jersey City.

Full JJ piece?

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... _break_ground_for_ne.html


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This is in the piece..interesting?.

Development partners Ironside Development Co. and Kushner Real Estate Group entered a deal with the Boys and Girls Club to buy the existing building at 1 Canal St. and are seeking site approval to build a 660-unit residential building there, said Hoboken based developer David Barry, owner of Ironside.


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