We don't need detached towers that goes back to the 1940s to 60s. We need development that complements and continues the urban wall effect that compliments the rowhouses on the other side . This project is perfect and it's the type of development you see in Harrison around the Red Bull Arena. Newark has been ignored too long for this type of development.

It appears developers are now using the threat of undesirable outcomes as well. It appears to Harlem case has set a precedent**. developer made clear that they could use other revenue streams for the site, such as light Manufacturing, big box retail like a Costco bringing a nightmare to the neighborhood as far as traffic, or a supermarket which will also create a traffic situation.

** a developer proposed to build a gigantic housing development in Harlem that was the stuff of dreams for that neighborhood, which has been crying for redevelopment and more affordable units as well as mixed income units. Even though close to a quarter of the units would be affordable housing, and the developer went way out of his way to accommodate Community concerns , a leftist radical commie councilwoman killed the project because she wanted zero gentrification. The developer retaliated by constructing a trucking Depot and trailer storage yard instead. He had every legal right to create the depot.

Now this sounds familiar because it also happened in Newark where a bunch of ghetto radicals actually killed a Wawa proposed to McCarter Highway and Governor Street. (It got built across the street from Newark just north of Clara Mass Hospital-IN BELLEVILLE! ) the site is now a trailer parking lot. And trailer parking lots are taking over every empty plot of land in the cities. In Newark they took over the entire railroad right of way. The Newark branch has been buried under three feet of fill and it's now used as a linear parking garage for trucks from Chester Avenue to the city line with Belleville. So these activists opposing we development better be careful what they ask for!