Lawsuit

The Jersey City Redevelopment Agency has filed a lawsuit over a vacant warehouse at 125 Monitor Street as part of their ongoing effort to see residential reuse of the building.

A pair of property-owning companies are taking the city to court hoping to throw out changes that could allow three new developments to rise near the city’s train station.

An eatery under construction at 586 Newark Avenue has taken grievances with their landlord to court.

A lawsuit over community givebacks has officially killed an agreement that would have allowed a 20-story hotel to rise along the Hudson River.

Officials have moved forward with a plan to investigate whether a swath of Downtown land could qualify as a redevelopment area after a deal that would have paved the way for a linear park was derailed.

A builder renovating two homes says that longtime politico Michael Manzo revoked his permits to “teach [him] a lesson,” later demanding a friendship to avoid his wrath.

The owner of TelCo Lofts has taken the city to court over a 2015 ordinance that bans formula businesses in a large portion of Downtown’s neighborhoods, which the mayor is now looking to roll back.

The current owner of the Bergen-Lafayette property, who was sued for fraud earlier this year, was arrested in May after a bench warrant was issued against him over an unsafe structure citation.

The lawsuit stems from the Board’s denial of a mixed-use development in the city’s northwest earlier this year, a decision the company is looking to reverse in court.

A three-judge panel ruled that Jersey City’s planning board acted appropriately when approving the project.