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than Bayfront, the 100-acre former
Center — a previously stalled but
Honeywell Corp. property that Jersey
vital piece of the planned $450
City purchased in 2018 and is slated
million campus known as SciTech
for 8,000 units with an unprecedented
Scity — after a multiyear effort to
35 percent affordable housing
redesign and “value engineer” the
component. The mayor spoke in
project to account for rising costs.
mid-December after the city had just
His team is also marking progress
closed on its sale of the project’s
on the so-called Sixth Street
fi rst parcel, where plans call for 210
Embankment, the site of an elevated
rentals, paving the way for vertical
former freight line downtown,
construction to begin in the spring.
where city leaders and advocates
“I feel that Bayfront is going to be
hope to build a distinctive public
one of the biggest success stories,”
park akin to Manhattan’s High Line.
he said. “The whole West Side is
The plan, stalled by more than 20
changing … but (with) Bayfront,
years of litigation over Conrail’s
the next mayor will run with that
sale of the land to a developer, is
for four years, eight years or twelve
fi nally advancing after a settlement
years, however long James is there.
agreement approved by the council
And I think it’s going to be one of the
in mid-November. That reportedly
most signifi cant things that we did
includes approval for a 40-story,
Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop (holding scissors) joined fellow city offi cials and
when you look back, the same way
604-acre residential tower on the
developers Alpine Residential and Fields Grade in 2024 to mark the opening of Atlas, a
Paul Jordan (the city’s mayor in the
easternmost portion of the site,
169-unit apartment tower in the city’s Bergen-Lafayette neighborhood.
1970s) … is given credit for all the
while the balance will have some fi ve
closed out.”
market — “but I didn’t have an idea
redevelopment plans that started
acres of open space.
of how well it would have worked, if
Newport.”
Looking back, he said he “never
“I think I’ve been putting my foot on
I’m being fair about it.”
THE FINAL STRETCH
really set an objective” when it came
the gas with the Embankment, with
to housing production during his
He also conceded that “if you stay
It wasn’t the only item on Fulop’s
SciTech Scity and Bayfront,” Fulop
time in offi ce. He believed “we would
in offi ce long enough, you’re going
fi nal checklist. Construction could
acknowledged. “I’ve been trying to
be good on housing and good on
to have ups and downs.” The city
soon begin on a new high school
make sure that the things that I can
development” — largely by coupling
“had a good run for a couple years”
adjacent to the Liberty Science
control that I started are getting
ambitious policies with a strong
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