Politics

The company announced in an email to property owners that they are no long pursuing a 50-story redevelopment that would have added a 300-student school to a Downtown Jersey City neighborhood.

The proposed task force in New Jersey’s largest city would be among the first of its kind in a state where homelessness remains a crisis.

New Jersey’s largest city should create a land bank like Detroit's in order to sell public property, according to the new Newark Forward report.

Exchange Physical Therapy – a Jersey City-based chain of physical therapy offices owned by Jaclyn Fulop (wife of Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop) – recently expanded to a new location in Hoboken.

Last year, Newark Deputy Mayor Baye Adofo-Wilson, who oversaw development in New Jersey’s largest city, resigned and took a job with a Central Jersey law firm. Now, that law firm will continue to be paid by the City of Newark to provide legal services related to development.

Over the past week, the story on how a Monopoly-themed mural at the tip of the Newark Avenue Pedestrian Plaza wound up officially painted over, has materialized into a public discussion. Commission, censorship, hypersensitivity, freedom of expression in art, and corporate sponsorship are now the charged pieces at the center of the game board.

Jersey Digs has learned that a former official with the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency and the Newark Community Economic Development Corporation has pleaded guilty in connection with an alleged conspiracy involving the Orange Public Library. In part, Franklyn Ore allegedly used money that was supposed to serve low-income families on “entertainment and restaurants.”

Almost all the properties eligible for the liquor licenses happen to be owned by Mack-Cali.

Carmelo Garcia, previously of the Newark Community Economic Development Corporation and the Hoboken Housing Authority, is taking Baye Adofo-Wilson’s position at Newark City Hall.

The Atlantic’s Citylab recently published an article outlining Jersey City’s strategic development plan and its potential for success. They were optimistic. Similar to most major...