Didn’t here anything about affordable units but hey atleast another large empty block is getting filled up. Very massive project, would very much like to see something like this on the dirt land on south orange ave.

About 3-4 blocks north of here that could use similar sized projects. Nice.

They should have done two separate 11 story towers

wow!!

That just sounds like the spires- but somehow worse?

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!

This is great news. I knew Vermella would pave the way for development like this. For too long, Newarkers could only see Harrison & JC get these massive developments.

Yeah I posted about this project two week. 20% affordable

That thing is massive Westside Hoboken style development. I hope they don’t cheap out on the quality of the cladding. A strict 5 story height limit means a big plain box instead of design variation

“a bunch of ghetto radicals actually killed a Wawa proposed to McCarter Highway and Governor Street.”

It was actually a small group of Lower Broadway homeowners who blocked anything that WASN’T high rent. Their pie in the sky plan was to get Trader Joe’s to come to that spot. So it’s the opposite, they were actively trying to gentrify the neighborhood.

Last I heard, the ringleader of the opposition moved to a luxury apartment downtown. That lot currently has trucks on it, obviously worse than a WAWA.

We are not Harrison we are Newark, we should have skyscrapers.

This project isn't downtown. It's in the Ironbound further away from Penn station. It's already higher density then the surrounding neighborhood which is mostly 3 family homes.