A developer is seeking a partner for a project that would bring at least 720 apartments to a well-known site just minutes from the Journal Square Transportation Center in Jersey City.
Hitting home: ‘The Journal’ is latest project to arrive in Jersey City with Paolino, attorney and city native, as a guiding hand for developers
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.
Looking back: Fulop, outgoing Jersey City mayor, reflects on policies behind historic development boom, affordability push
With his time as mayor winding down, Steve Fulop feels Jersey City is better off after 12 years of pro-growth policies and a historic development boom that spread beyond the downtown and waterfront areas. He also acknowledged that the city and the region still face an affordability crisis and an undersupply of housing, issues that his successor will confront in the years ahead.
