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Journal Squared
Journal Squared, or J2, is a 3-tower retail and residential complex under construction at Journal Square in Jersey City, New Jersey Upon completion, the complex will consist of buildings of 54, 60, and 70 stories, among the tallest buildings in the state. Site The site of the project is adjacent to the Journal Square Transportation Center on Summit Avenue across from the Hudson County Administration Building, the county seat of Hudson County and the Newkirk House, the oldest extant building in the county. Funding and abatements Journal Squared is project of Kushner Real Estate Group. It was first approved by the city council in December 2012 and was later granted a 30-year tax abatement and $10 million in bonds. Design The project was designed by Handel Architects and Hollwich Kushner. The project consists of three towers, and a mix of office, residential, and retail, although the project will be chiefly residential, with 2,000 new units. One of the main components is a la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Journal Square
Journal Square is a business district, residential area, and transportation hub in Jersey City, New Jersey, which takes its name from the newspaper ''Jersey Journal'' whose headquarters were located there from 1911 to 2013. The "square" itself is at the intersection of County Route 501 (New Jersey), Kennedy Boulevard and Bergen-Lafayette, Jersey City, Bergen Avenue. The broader area extends to and includes Bergen Square, McGinley Square, India Square, the Five Corners, Jersey City, Five Corners and parts of the Marion Section. Many local, state, and federal agencies serving Hudson County maintain offices in the district. History Prior to its development as a commercial district Journal Square was the site of many farmhouses and manors belonging to descendants of the original settlers of Bergen, New Netherland, Bergen, the first chartered municipality in the state settled in 1660 and located just south at Bergen Square. In conjunction with the 1912 opening of the Hudson and Manhat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jersey City, New Jersey
Jersey City is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, after Newark.The Counties and Most Populous Cities and Townships in 2010 in New Jersey: 2000 and 2010 , . Accessed November 7, 2011. It is the of and the county's largest city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Handel Architects
Handel Architects LLP is an architecture firm that was founded in New York City in 1994. Led by Partner Gary Handel, the firm has offices in New York City, Boston, San Francisco, and Hong Kong. The firm is composed of five partners: Gary Handel, Blake Middleton, Glenn Rescalvo, Frank Fusaro, and Michael Arad. Well-known projects include Cornell University's New York City Tech Campus Residential Tower, Millennium Tower , the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, DC, and the National September 11 Memorial in Lower Manhattan. Works and projects United States New York City * Madison House, NoMad, Manhattan * The Essex at Essex Crossing, New York, NY * 180 Broome at Essex Crossing, New York, NY * One Blue Slip, Greenpoint, Brooklyn * Cornell Tech Campus Residential Tower, New York, NY * Sendero Verde, Harlem, New York, NY * Pier 57 (SuperPier) Renovation and Restoration, New York, NY * Enclave at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, NY * National September 11 Memorial, Lower Manhatta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollwich Kushner
Marc Charles Kushner (born September 27, 1977) is an American architect, entrepreneur and author. He was a partner at the New York City based architecture firm Hollwich Kushner and co-founded Architizer. Early life and education The son of Lee Kushner and real estate developer Murray Kushner, Marc Kushner was raised Modern Orthodox Jewish in Livingston, New Jersey. Kushner graduated from The Frisch School before attending the University of Pennsylvania where he received a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Political Science and Contemporary Vernacular Architecture as Cultural Artifact. Kushner then attended Harvard Graduate School of Design and received a Master of Architecture.New York Times: "A Kushne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kushner Real Estate Group
Kushner Real Estate Group, also known as the KRE Group is an American real estate development company based in Bridgewater, New Jersey. The company has developed, owns, and manages properties throughout New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, including more than 6,000,000 square feet of commercial industrial, and retail property, and more than 9,000 existing apartments, with an additional 7,000 apartments in various stages of approvals and construction. The company controls more than 6 million square feet of commercial industrial, and retail property, and more than 9,000 apartments. History KRE was founded in 1979 as SK Properties by Eugene Schenkman and Murray Kushner, the brother of Charles Kushner and uncle of Jared Kushner. The company was re-branded in 2010, and changed its name to KRE. In July 2014, the company began construction on the first phase of Journal Squared, a residential development adjacent to the Journal Square Transportation Center. The project was to be co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Tallest Buildings In New Jersey
This list of tallest buildings in New Jersey ranks skyscrapers and high-rises in the U.S. state of New Jersey by height. The tallest building in New Jersey is the 79-story 99 Hudson Street in Jersey City, which topped out at in September 2018. It is the 41st tallest building in the United States. The 42-story 30 Hudson Street, known widely as the Goldman Sachs Tower, which rises 781 feet (238 m) at Exchange Place in Jersey City is the state's tallest commercial building. It is also the 81st-tallest building in the United States. The tallest building in New Jersey outside Jersey City is the 57-story Ocean Resort Casino, which rises 709 ft (216 m) in Atlantic City and ranks as the second-tallest casino tower in the United States. Tallest buildings This list ranks New Jersey skyscrapers that stand at least tall, based on standard height measurement. This includes spires and architectural details but does not include antenna masts. The "Year" column indicates the year in wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Journal Square Transportation Center
The Journal Square Transportation Center is a multi-modal transportation hub located on Magnolia Avenue and Kennedy Boulevard at Journal Square in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States. Owned and operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the complex includes a ten-story tower, a retail plaza, a bus terminal, a two-level parking facility, and the Journal Square station of the PATH rail transit system. The underground station has a high ceiling and a mezzanine level connecting the platforms. History The transportation center is built over a cut through Bergen Hill. The Bergen Hill cut was originally excavated in 1834-1838 by the New Jersey Rail Road and Transportation Company, later part of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR), to access the Hudson River waterfront. Passenger trains traveled to what became Exchange Place, while freight trains on the Harsimus Branch continued to the Harsimus Stem Embankment. The center began as the Summit Avenue station of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Summit Avenue (Hudson Palisades)
County Route 617 is long and follows one street, Summit Avenue along the ridge of the Hudson Palisades in Hudson County, New Jersey. Its southern end is List of county routes in Hudson County, New Jersey, CR 622, or Grand Street, at Communipaw, Communipaw Junction in the Bergen-Lafayette, Jersey City, Bergen-Lafayette Section of Jersey City, New Jersey, Jersey City (although Summit Avenue continues one block south to Garfield and Communipaw Avenues without county maintenance). Its northern end is List of county routes in Hudson County, New Jersey, CR 691, 32nd Street, a section of the Bergen Turnpike, in Union City, New Jersey, Union City. History The route of the avenue follows a Lenape trail, used by the Hackensack Indians between their summer encampment at Communipaw on the Upper New York Bay and a more permanent settlement at Overpeck Creek. In the 17th century it was also used by early European settlers to region, first at Pavonia, New Netherland, Pavonia and later Bergen, N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hudson County Administration Building
The Hudson County Administration Building is home to the seat of government of Hudson County, New Jersey, US. It is located at 595 Newark Avenue in the Journal Square section of Jersey City in the abutting Five Corners and Hilltop neighborhoods The building houses government administrative offices, the hall of records, and courts for the county and state. Opened in 1957 and expanded in 1966, the International Style structure is considered obsolete and under consideration for replacement, while being demolished once a new courthouse is built. County seat Hudson County was part of a much larger Bergen County until the latter was divided in 1840. "The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606–1968", John P. Snyder, Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 145. By 1845, the site of a new county seat was made for the construction of a new courthouse and jail in Bergen Township, which at the time comprised much of the new county. The original courthouse w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hudson County, New Jersey
Hudson County is the most densely populated county in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It lies west of the lower Hudson River, which was named for Henry Hudson, the sea captain who explored the area in 1609. Part of New Jersey's Gateway Region in the New York metropolitan area, the county's county seat and largest city is Jersey City,New Jersey County Map New Jersey Department of State. Accessed July 10, 2017. whose population as of the was 292,449. As of the |
Newkirk House
The Newkirk House, also known as the Summit House, located at 510 Summit Avenue is the oldest surviving structure in Jersey City, New Jersey. The two-story Dutch Colonial building, composed of sandstone, brick, and clapboard dates to 1690. Originally one story, the outer walls are two feet of stone fitted in lime and mortar. Beams of timber in the basement are six-by-twelve inches and those on the second floor are four-by-six inches spaced four-feet apart. Eight-inch wood pegs, rather than nails, were employed during the time of construction. Old Bergen The part of New Netherland that would become Hudson County was first settled in the 1630s as Pavonia. In 1660, Director-General Petrus Stuyvesant granted a charter for development of a fortified village at what is now Bergen Square. Upon the British takeover of New Netherland it became Bergen Township, while the population remained rooted in native tradition and became known as the Bergen Dutch. Bergen, New Netherland became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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