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| Governor Murphy's October 25 Announcement |
Hoboken has been waiting for Governor Murphy to tell us what we can build with the $230M Rebuild By Design grant.
And waiting... and waiting. The Mile Square is under a federally-mandated 2022 completion deadline.
Well, the waiting's over! The Governor's pick was presented last night at a public meeting held at Stevens University, and the Governors office issued a press release. GA spoke to an attendee at there, who described the plan (I will post when it comes online- stay tuned):
The southern alignment was on a slide shown at the meeting last night. I think it will be up on the RBD website today. Together with lots of info about the design of the northern alignment. LCOR and the unions fought hard against this alignment because of the reduction it requires in the size of the development. Hence the press coverage in Politico and The Record. IMHO losing 1 million square feet of residential development in SW Hoboken is a wonderful thing, given the traffic etc. We wind up with 1 million square feet of commercial development by the train station, an upgraded train station and flood protection - pretty amazing result. I expect there will be pressure down the road from the unions and LCOR to turn the commercial into residential or to increase building sizes to add back the residential. It's important that our elected officials understand from the get go that will not fly.
Fantastic!
No wonder DeFusco and Ramos are pumping special interest dark money into Hoboken (" Vote Yes Hoboken" New Jersey Democracy in Action") to bring back run-offs.
No wonder the Council of Spite wants to toss Gary Holtzman off the Planning board, to make room for a pro-development crony. If DeFusco ever gets has paws on the levers of Executive power, he will open the floodgates for his PAC, Union and developer donors.
It starts with the November 6 vote. Everyone who voted to eliminate run-offs in 2012 should vote "NO" on Municipal Question 1.
11 days to go, people!
RBD doesn't just protect us from flooding - it's an incredible project that will be transformative for North Hoboken. It not just about erasing a negative (risk of flooding). It's a huge positive in and of itself. It creates an enormous park as well as lots of other cool amenities all around the area. It would be huge for the City if it did nothing to address flooding.
ReplyDeleteI don't think many people realize that. Lots of folks thinks it's just a floodwall.
You do realize the vote farmers would love nothing more than to convert that parkland into condos. The whole reason they want to get rid of runoffs so they can get rid of elected officials who might actually insist the amenities get installed. Nothing but condos is their goal.
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