JSQ Redevelopment Plan is Moving Forward

Journal Square rendering shows towers, new PATH station, and greener surrounding

Just a quick post to give you an update on the Journal Square Redevelopment Plan. It is moving forward after it was discussed by the City Council last Monday. As a matter of fact, today, the Jersey City Council will give the plan its first reading.

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Jersey City Council considers Greater Journal Square Redevelopment Plan
by Amy Sara Clark / The Jersey Journal
Monday February 09, 2009, 10:45 PM

The second major topic discussed at tonight’s City Council caucus meeting was the Greater Journal Square Redevelopment Plan.

The plan would include in the 244-acre area several skyscrapers, landscaped streets, pedestrian malls, a revamped PATH station, a narrow-gauge trolley from Route 139 to McGinley Square, a light rail spur to Journal Square, bike paths and more parks.

Bob Antonicello, executive director of the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency, praised the plan, saying it would bring people out of the PATH station and back onto the street, bringing vibrancy back to Journal Square.

He said the plan was based on more than 20 community meetings.

Tony Nelessen, principal planner of the plan, said, “One of the things we’ve heard over and over again is a kind of wonderful romance and nostalgia for the past. We wanted to capture the nostalgia for the past, but bring it into the future.”

Council members were also fairly quiet about this plan, but one issue that came up was a plan to allow developers to build higher than the cap of a floor area ratio of 10 if they gave money to a district improvement fund, which would be used only in the Journal Square area.

“I don’t know that I’m jumping for joy for that one,” said Ward A Councilman Michael Sottolano.

The plan will receive its first reading at Wednesday’s council meeting.

News Source: Jersey Journal

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