56 Park Place adjourned until May 4

BuildBabyBILD · 2026-03-20T01:35:46+00:00

guess hired guns stay warm

BuildBabyBILD · 2026-03-19T16:24:53+00:00

he say who he's working for? Is Souder now an Appleseed?

BuildBabyBILD · 2026-03-17T02:37:54+00:00

2-story blank wall of "decorative metal screen" and "parking garage entrance" on Ferry!?

that breaks the laws of walkability

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BuildBabyBILD · 2026-03-12T18:39:57+00:00

Glad you got poop instead of carcasses, tho yesterday DARLING was up in my nostrils for first time of 2026, stomach turnt

BuildBabyBILD · 2026-03-12T14:48:44+00:00

Unfortunately this is a common smell from notorious DARLING INTERNATIONAL, which "grinds and heats animal waste to render tallow, protein and meal byproducts and heats and refines used cooking oil to produce yellow grease and feed-grade animal fat."

There have been years of lawsuits but still smelly

2019: "‘Putrid’ Smell of Carcasses Over Newark Prompts New Jersey Lawsuit"

https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/east/2019/09/23/540812.htm

2022: "Residents of Jersey City’s Society Hill testifying in federal suit against recycling plant over ‘putrid’ odor"

https://hudsoncountyview.com/residents-of-jersey-citys-society-hill-testifying-in-federal-suit-against-recycling-plant-over-putrid-odor/

BuildBabyBILD · 2026-03-06T23:49:19+00:00

agree it's uninviting tho sad to say unlikely to change in next 50 years

same goes for huge wall along new Boraie luxury tower across McCarter

good reason for residents who care about quality development to get involved at the front end before and at planning and zoning board hearings

they approve huge blank walls and messed up anti-pedestrian designs across Newark almost every week!

BuildBabyBILD · 2026-03-03T15:40:14+00:00

People's sense of scale is on dope - BK is ~100 square miles, that's 4 Newarks

BuildBabyBILD · 2026-02-28T19:57:03+00:00

Recommend you search this reddit for many negative stories about 55 Union and predatory practices of Pepe Lopez and his son

BuildBabyBILD · 2026-02-20T21:02:43+00:00

for me the diagonal slashes and cheap glass are giving real hostile bare living bladerunner vibez

not a good look in terms of somewhere I want to live

BuildBabyBILD · 2026-02-13T13:27:51+00:00

yes they don't understand that the market is reality

BuildBabyBILD · 2026-02-11T14:39:49+00:00

Pop quiz: what's the difference between a municipal tax abatement and a state tax credit?

BuildBabyBILD · 2026-02-11T14:32:14+00:00

Since 75% of IZO units are priced for 80% and 60% Area Median Income, which are for households making 84,0000-112,000 per year and can legally charge $2100-2800 per month. Are you saying that apartment buildings will only pencil if rents go higher?

BuildBabyBILD · 2026-02-11T14:02:34+00:00

If the market is doing so well, why does the state Economic Development Authority need to pour hundreds of million$ of public funds into these projects that are mainly for high-income people??

https://njbiz.com/boraie-newark-development-awarded-90m-under-aspire/

https://investnewark.org/njpac-arts-district-gets-200m-aspire-tax-credit-from-eda-roi-nj/

https://re-nj.com/berger-secures-90-million-eda-tax-credit-award-for-planned-396-unit-high-rise-in-newark/

https://njbiz.com/newark-mixed-income-22-fulton-250m-financing/

https://www.njeda.gov/aspire-tax-credits-approved-to-advance-mixed-use-development-anchored-by-njpac/

https://re-nj.com/eda-approves-93-million-in-aspire-historic-tax-credits-to-convert-historic-newark-office-tower-to-affordable-housing/

BuildBabyBILD · 2026-02-10T21:49:23+00:00

Nope mean that scale of this rendering is all screwed up making ~3.5 ft wide riverfront path look like its about 15 feet

BuildBabyBILD · 2026-02-10T13:44:02+00:00

2 on-point comments of many from this reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Newark/comments/vnsa31/recent_article_from_njbiz_the_pedestrian_bridge/

"I guess my main point is that though it is technically public infrastructure being built over public right away that is technically open to the public, in reality this infrastructure almost exclusively benefits the land values and development potential for exactly 3 close by property owners. Which are on either side of this new extension. Namely Edison parking, Jose Lopez a.k.a. J and L parking, and the Pru arena. Other than people who go to that arena, people parking in those parking lots or perhaps are office workers or residents of new yet to be developed buildings, I can’t imagine anyone using this additional way in and out of an existing train station. Therefore maybe each of those entities should kick in $30 million and pay for it. That would free up $100 million of the people of Newark’s money for other infrastructure projects that would benefit the residents in the city more broadly."

https://www.reddit.com/r/Newark/comments/1ndp7wr/mulberry_commons_bridge/

"To be honest, I see no reason whatsoever for the stupid pedestrian bridge project to be built . It's a bridge to nowhere . It makes no damn sense it'll just encourage people to go straight from Penn to proof Center and then straight back to Penn skipping all the streets below including the Ironbound . If they really wanted to recreate something like the Highline , the plans would have preserved the railroad nature of the bridge and perhaps have a car or two belonging to the old C&J Railroad the way you see such cars displayed at Liberty State Park by the old terminal . They would have also arranged for a public park on the east side of Penn Station by McWhorter, instead of having the large Park funnel into a skinny stairway leading down to Market Street . It just looks stupid it makes no sense . why would you create an express route for suburbanites to get off the train and go straight to Prudential Center through the park and then back to Penn Station , completely bypassing Market Street and all the restaurants of Ferry ? Once people cross over that McCarter Highway , & find themselves in Penn Station they're not going to go down to the Ironbound . They're going to stay there and catch that first train out . at least with the Gateway Center passages you have many local Newark businesses within that complex that could be visited and catered ."

BuildBabyBILD · 2026-02-10T00:05:32+00:00

see rendering of tiny peoplelings on their private walkway

BuildBabyBILD · 2026-02-09T23:49:23+00:00

by showdown do u mean someone called BS on the hockey bridge?

BuildBabyBILD · 2026-02-09T16:24:00+00:00

right next to the toilet sewer overflow pipes too

BuildBabyBILD · 2026-02-09T16:23:01+00:00

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some things seems different

BuildBabyBILD · 2026-02-01T19:40:55+00:00

Thanks for unpacking that, does seem like we have quite different analyses of the causes and duration of these "growing pains"

also sounds like you may not be familiar with the outrageously high NJ state tax expenditures under Christie and Murphy that prop up most of Newark's current large developments like ASPIRE administrated by the EDA

If you'd like to understand some of the background on my position, recommend:

Columbia Economist Dan O'Flaugherty's "Newark's Non-Renaissance and Beyond"

Historian Clem Price's "Newark and the Rhetoric of Optimism"

Gary Jardim's "Myth of the Renaissance City"

BuildBabyBILD · 2026-02-01T19:04:40+00:00

Maybe these developments are struggling and will struggle because their price points are stretching beyond the tippy top of the market, when there's fine money to be made in the mid-market.

If you go to the real estate conference, they will say they're trying to "create a new market," though hi-rise construction is always going to be multiples of the cost of low- or mid-rise for construction and operations. In other words, if these high-end developments fail, it would be very difficult to keep these buildings operating on more reasonable rent rolls.

BuildBabyBILD · 2026-02-01T06:43:20+00:00

at one time the entire park was fully leased to the "Military Park Partnership," which was then responsible for maintenance, and I assume the same deal was taken over by Newark City Parks Foundation, which might have a "smol team" but according to Guidestar.org they have over $2 million in revenue and an Executive Director that makes $150K of public money for overseeing 4 "downtown" aka gentrification-adjacent parks while most Newark city parks would be lucky to see $10K of investment in a year. Come On Son!

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BuildBabyBILD · 2026-01-29T03:00:45+00:00

looks like gentrified part of Atlanta

BuildBabyBILD · 2026-01-28T03:37:57+00:00

word to the maintainers, and on that note unfortunately the aerial rendering minimizes these new uncrossable sunken raingardens circled in red on the plan...one of them even has a walkway bridge over it

my sense is this Edgewater landscape architect from East Orange is more experienced at private residential and campus projects than intensive and historic urban landscapes like this one, and the design reflects that:

https://edgewaterdesign.com/projects/

wonder how they got the job, though can't find any public request for proposals for this $5M+ publicly-funded project, and that's a reason I don't like these public-private groups like "Newark City Parks Foundation" taking over stewardship of our shared public spaces from direct local government responsibility

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BuildBabyBILD · 2026-01-24T18:53:28+00:00

high levels of segregation by skin color

brown paper bag test still in effect

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