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After years of planning, development is underway for a new residential project in Jersey City. The 64-unit, fully affordable project will rise in the northern edge of the city’s Greenville neighborhood at 445 Ocean Avenue.

Another new project is planned in Bayonne as development in the city continues to pick up. A report published by The Jersey Journal states that an 180-unit building is planned for 162-170 Avenue F, between 23rd and 24th Street, in the city's 2nd Ward.

For too long, Newark’s Downtown was pockmarked with vacant relics of the city’s heyday, but a few local developers have been turning that narrative around in recent years. The Berger Organization is one of these developers, having revived historic structures in the city like the Robert Treat Center and the Military Park Building.

World-renowned celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson has signed on to open up a restaurant in one of downtown Newark’s most prominent buildings, adding another feather in the cap to both the city’s revitalization and to a historic landmark that’s undergoing a thorough restoration.

The Heights neighborhood of Jersey City was a German enclave from the middle of the 19th century until World War I. Prosperous citizens, often of German descent, built the biggest and best houses on Summit Avenue and Sherman Place. Today, in the ongoing preservation conversation, we feature four of these well-preserved homes.

Progress is being made for Bayonne’s latest health center - a three-story, 80,000 square-foot medical facility in the heart of Bayonne. Officials are optimistic that the project will bring “quality healthcare, jobs, and economic revitalization” to the city.

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.

After announcing the plan two years ago, Jersey City is finally beginning construction on its City Hall annex. According to the Jersey Journal, a groundbreaking ceremony is planned tomorrow for the 45,000 square foot project.

Jersey City’s hometown coffee roaster Modcup is opening up it’s long awaited 25 Senate Place location today. The announcement on their Facebook page indicates a soft opening all week

Jersey City is planning a big bash for the grand opening of the long-awaited Berry Lane Park, a project that not only repurposes formerly abandoned properties but may be transformative for the neighborhood as well.