For People Who Think Price Matters
This in from a Daily Newarker tipster, a Times piece about low-and-medium income housing units going up in Newark and Jersey City.
Similarly, in Newark — another revitalization site that has relatively little midpriced housing — there is a shortage that at least one developer is setting out to remedy.
“We think [...]
I received a flyer from the City Hall the other day describing the new parks coming to the city. The city is partnering with philanthropists to bring playgrounds, sports fields, pools and walkable green space to Newark neighborhoods.
Mayor Cory A. Booker and the City Council create the largest historic fund for City Parks
Through Green [...]
Luxury condos coming to Newark
One might be forgiven for waiting on getting excited about this project after the developer’s former project, the Mulberry Street Redevelopment Project, was summarily halted in court over improper use of eminent domain.
That aside, we’re really psyched to see new construction in the city. While meeting a fellow Newarker over breakfast, [...]
No one’s home: Newark and builder at odds over housing project
Quality, in-depth report from Sunday’s Star Ledger about a total train wreck in the construction of a public housing project on Elizabeth Ave. The money and time wasted in the pursuit of these failed housing units would be tragic in and of itself, not accounting [...]
Newark picks buyers for bargain land
It will be interesting to see the monitoring put into place as a result of the new legislation over these properties.
I also wonder, with commodities prices being what they are and lending still difficult to come by, whether Newark would strike most developers as a high value opportunity with [...]
$2.9M added for makeover of Newark riverfront
Like violent crime and poverty, the Passaic River is one of those challenges in Newark that just resists a resolution.
While Mayor Booker and Senator Lautenberg announced an additional $2.9 million for the restoration project along the riverfront, much of the near term work will just be laying [...]
Early Saturday morning, my 11-year-old son and I rode our bicycles in the middle of Market Street, once the most automobile-congested street in the country. Of course, we could not do it without over a hundred fellow Newarkers, who joined the Brick City Bike Tour.
“That’s how it feels in a city without cars,” my [...]
An even playing field for Newark
A new $24 million sports complex will be built to replace the crumbling and partially condemned Schools Stadium, which has sat along Bloomfield Avenue since the early 1900s. Two baseball/softball fields, concession stands, locker rooms, and a football/soccer turf field will be built.
The project will be paid for [...]
Newark is the fastest growing city in the Northeast, leading the nationwide trend of people migrating into cities. The Wall Street Journal ran a piece describing the demographic aspect of this move—boomers and millennials, mostly—and identifying higher energy prices as one of the main reasons for this trend.
The Journal (and a similar CNN piece [...]
The New Urbanism and the Communitarian Trap (PDF)
Great piece from the Harvard Design Magazine, Winter/Spring 1997, Number 1. New Urbanism is the model that many US cities are attempting to adopt to make sense of their post-industrial communities.
While dipping a toe into the ocean of material about urban design, I was surprised at [...]
