Bayfront is an

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project in Jersey City, New Jersey. Bayfront Jersey City Honeywell redevelopment site 2013

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Route 440 West Side Jersey City Bayfront

Hackensack Riverfront

The Hackensack Riverfront is an area on the eastern banks of the

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near its mouth at Newark Bay. It is on the West Side of the

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, specifically west of NJ Route 440. It lies north of Droyer's Point and south of Lincoln Park. It is home to the Hudson Mall, Four Hundred Forty Shopping Center and the former Jersey City Public Works incinerator as well as the planned site.

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and the piers of the former

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, now River Terminal, are on the opposite bank. The Hackensack RiverWalk is a partially complete greenway

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intended to run from the

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to the

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, mostly at the water's edge.

Bayfront project

Bayfront is a proposed mixed-use development to be situated on a brownfield site and developed though a public-private partnership once environmental remediation of

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is completed by

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, which purchased a company that once operated facilities there. Though separated by the highway, Bayfront and the West Campus of

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(NJCU) were intended to transform large parts of the city from industrial and manufacturing zones into residential, educational, recreational and commercial zones. Development plans are required to incorporate public access to the river's edge along the bulkhead and will connect to the

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at Droyer's Point. While construction was expected to begin in 2016, chromium and other

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was still being completed as of 2017. The project won't be completely "built out" until 2043, however. Under the 2008 agreement, the city turned over 35 acres of municipal land to Honeywell, which agreed to cover the cost of the environmental cleanup. That land along Route 440 is home to the Jersey City Incinerator Authority (JCIA), the Department of Public Works (DPW), and the Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority (JCIA). JCIA and the DPW will relocate to a new location on Linden Avenue. Some JCMUA functions will also be relocated and downsized. Remediation work was completed in 2009 of several other formerly contaminated sites, including the sites of the old Roosevelt Drive-in and the new NJCU West Campus. The city will purchase the property and apportion the land, lay out infrastructure, and resell parcels to developers. In July 2022, approval for the construction of the first building in the project was given, with construction expected start in 2023.

Boulevard and BRT

In March 2011,

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granted nearly $640,000 for engineering work to transform Route 440, between the two projects and beyond to an urban boulevard. Plans include the use of the Journal Square BRT, a bus rapid system along the boulevard. As envisioned, the BRT corridor would run from Droyer's Point and reach

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via Sip Avenue.

HBLR extension

Currently bus service is provided by A&C Bus Corporation route 32 from the shopping centers or Droyer's Point to

. In May 2011 after two years of studies,

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announced a plan for 0.7 mile extension of the West Side Branch of the

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from its current terminus. The new track would be laid along the former

Newark and New York Railroad The Newark and New York Railroad was a passenger rail line that ran between Downtown Newark and the Communipaw Terminal at the mouth of the North River (Hudson River) in Jersey City, bridging the Hackensack River and Passaic River just north ...

right-of-way on an elevated viaduct from the West Side Avenue Station over Route 440 to the northern end of the redevelopment area, where a new station would be constructed. The trip between the two stations would take 1 minute and 50 seconds. The project, eligible for federal funding, is estimated to cost $171.6 million. As of March 2017, funding for final design and engineering work was appropriated. Construction of the first phase of the extension commenced in March 2020.

Ferry study

Bayfront is considered potential site of ferry service along the Hackensack. Studies will be commissioned in 2020.

References

External links

1860 MapBayfront Appropriations Request1921 Droyer's Point development planVapor instrusion migitationFrom Vision to Development
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