A landmark project in Journal Square is especially meaningful for Gene Paolino, a senior partner with Genova Burns who spent nearly 20 years guiding the development. He’s also a Jersey City native, meaning he’s been personally invested in the city’s growth during a legal career that spans more than four decades.
On the money
I’ve spent a decade watching Devco tackle some of the state’s largest, most ambitious redevelopment projects with complex capital stacks and broad coalitions of stakeholders. It’s a topic that we feature in this month’s cover story, which follows a year in which the organization broke ground on more than $1.5 billion worth of development. That makes it all the more timely for us to highlight an operation that is seemingly unlike any other developer in New Jersey.
