The last remaining piece of Hoboken’s waterfront walkway is now underway following a groundbreaking ceremony for a new greenspace at the former Union Dry Dock.
Mayor Ravi S. Bhalla, Mayor-elect Emily Jabbour, and other dignitaries broke ground on Maritime Park, an 8.7-acre waterfront park located at 901 Sinatra Drive. The ceremony marked a milestone in Hoboken’s decades-long effort to create a continuous, publicly accessible waterfront.
The park will be a recreational, ecological, and educational destination. The design includes an upgraded skatepark, a flexible lawn, a new learning pier for marine education, a living shoreline of marshes and tide pools, a playground, a public plaza inspired by the Castle Point bluffs, a community building with a rooftop observation deck, expanded beaches, and an extension of the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway.
“Today we’re celebrating what happens when a city truly listens to its community, because Maritime Park is a reflection of the passion and ideas of Hoboken’s residents,” said Mayor-elect Jabbour. “From parents and skaters to environmental advocates and longtime neighbors, this community shaped every part of what Maritime Park will be.”
Hudson County kicked in $500,000 towards the development of Maritime Park through the Open Space Trust Fund. The project is moving forward on the heels of a road reconstruction project along Sinatra Drive that has left the stretch partially closed for many months.
“I know the future park at this site will be in good hands with Mayor-Elect Jabbour who has been a strong supporter of this project, and I have no doubt she will see construction through to completion. I look forward to its grand opening during the Jabbour administration,” Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla said.
Project construction for the first phase will begin in earnest in the first quarter of 2026, with the first portion including the skatepark and an extension of the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway. Other components included in the initial construction include the public plaza, seating areas, a water fountain, and a learning plant nursery and tree staging area to cultivate native plantings for later phases of the park’s development.
