Historic Preservation

A Jersey City business that served the community for almost 50 years could soon be home to a restoration and addition project that includes ground floor retail space.

Audible plans to renovate the ground floor of a well-known modernist building at 33 Washington St in Newark designed by architect Welton Becket.

Jersey City has opened applications for $5 million in grants to enhance parks, playgrounds, and historic sites citywide.

The question of why the Loew's Journal Square has been unable to undergo a Kings Theater (Brooklyn) style full renovation under the Fulop administration (or prior administrations) and become a cultural destination with more jobs and year-round programming, is a complex one. We caught up with Friends of Loew's to get the scoop.

Interior design details have been finalized for a church-to-residential conversion project, which looks to put a modern touch on historic details.

The owners are now partnering with Newark-based developer Hanini Group to bring a five-story residential building to the property.

A famous Newark Rabbi, who preceded Dr. Martin Luther King at the lectern before the “I have a dream” speech, has somehow faded from local memory. 

A stately Jersey City home has been listed for $1.4 million several years after it appeared the boarded-up property would be restored to its former luster.

A development that reused and expanded an old Jersey City warehouse into a large retail complex has been acknowledged for its efforts to maintain the property’s historic character.