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As everyone knows, Jersey City is on the move. There are skyscrapers going up seemingly everywhere, cool restaurants, neat stores, pop-up beer gardens and more. This is especially true in Bergen-Lafayette. While we don’t quite have the infrastructure and shiny things, our advantage is that almost everywhere can be beautified and refurbished. All that it takes is someone that cares, a little funding and a lot of elbow grease.

Everyone’s favorite French bakery, Choc•O•Pain Bakery and Café, has announced a fourth Hudson County location planned for the Heights section of Jersey City.

Updates on food & drink happening around Jersey City. Hard Grove announces new location, Pho 888 opens on the West Side, Tidal Poke Co. and Lizzmonade now open in Harborside.

A Jersey City ordinance that says developments granted property tax abatements must hire union labor on their projects was struck a blow last week by an Appeals Court, although the city’s top official says the matter is far from settled.

A new development project may soon be breaking ground in the Lafayette neighborhood of Jersey City. Last week, City Council voted to approve a 20-year tax abatement for a project at 2-16 Ash Street / 440-446 Whiton Street.

Yesterday, officials from The KABR Group and Jersey City came together for a ceremonial ground breaking on a new 5-floor rental building at 720-726 Bergen Avenue in Jersey City’s McGinley Square neighborhood. The project is the first major residential development in the area in decades.

Earlier this week, officials from Claremont Companies, Circle Squared Alternative Investments, and the Hampshire Companies came together for the official groundbreaking of the New Jersey City University’s University Place project.

The $230 million Rebuild By Design project, which aims to curb flooding in parts of Hoboken, Weehawken and Jersey City, hit another major milestone late last week when the Department of Environmental Protection announced what they’ll be building and what it will look like, although the benefits of the undertaking are still a few years away.

A century-old building right in Jersey City's The Heights is being re-imagined into loft-style rental apartments with a sustainable component, spaces that will start leasing very soon.

Updates on food & drink happening around Jersey City. Van Hook Cheese to open, a sneak peek at Atlas Public House's menu, 9th and Coles is up for sale, Ani Ramen to open soon.