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- Newark Council Approves Zoning Change Despite Gentrification Fears
- New rule is approved unanimously. Residents worry it will significantly alter life in the Ironbound
- Challenge for NJ Cities: Gentrify Without Driving Out Less-Affluent Residents
- Newly minted report advises local and state officials on how to attract new residents and businesses without decimating older communities
- Newark Forms Commission to Fight Gentrification
- Mayor Ras Baraka wants to make sure that poor and working-class residents are not displaced as the city tries to attract a middle class
- Plenty of Backers for Big Tax Credit to Rehabilitate Historic Properties in NJ
- Homeowners and developers would be eligible for incentive, which could be worth up to 25 percent of the cost of a qualified project
- Trying to Repurpose NJ’s Empty or Underused Strip Malls and Offices
- There’s a new grant program for municipalities to redevelop ‘ghost malls’ and underutilized commercial properties
- The Challenge Facing New Jersey’s Suburbs: ‘Adapt in Order to Survive’
- Could suburban communities really empty out if officials don’t plan better to meet the demand for vibrant, walkable neighborhoods?
- Court Rules Jersey City Can Keep Some Funds from Failed Journal Square Project
- Appellate court decides municipality must return $2 million to developer but can hold onto $700,000 paid into affordable-housing trust fund
- Redirect Remaining Sandy Aid to Victims Who Still Are Not Back in Homes, State Urged
- Six years after superstorm’s devastation, not all recovery money has been spent. Advocates want some to go to people who are trying to ‘cross the finish line’
- Princeton Merger Pays Off in Property-Tax Slowdown, Better Services
- Five years after borough and township consolidated, officials say homeowners and municipality have saved money, and services have improved
- Top Court Sends Montclair State Back to Drawing Board Over New Campus Exit
- Because plans would affect public safety, state Supreme Court returns case to Superior Court to make sure legitimate county concerns are taken into consideration
- A Critical Question for NJ Towns: What Do You Do with a Dying Mall?
- There are more than 30 enclosed malls dotted across the Garden State — many in trouble — but some experts insist they can be given a new lease on life
- The Latest Move: New Jerseyans Return to the Cities
- Colleen O’Dea, NJ Spotlight’s editor at large, discusses a shift in the state’s population on NJTV
- Fort Monmouth Poised for Second Life as Tech Hub
- Sprawling, two-square-mile property could also be redeveloped as walkable community for millennials
- ‘Shaq Tower’ Marks a Milestone in Downtown Newark
- NBA Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal visits former home to watch workers finish top floor of his high-rise apartment and retail building on Rector Street
- Governor Tries to Calm the Waters Between Hoboken and Ferry Company
- Murphy intervenes in row over future of three-acre waterfront shipyard
- NJ’s Tech Future Begins with New Brunswick ‘Hub’ — Murphy
- Governor’s plan for economic development begins with creation of a center for innovation and technology to help small businesses and startups
- New Lease on Life for Urban Enterprise Zones, but Is Murphy Onboard?
- Legislation hopes to maintain UEZ benefits, like 50 percent sales-tax break, in dozens of communities where zones are scheduled to expire
- Business Task Force Hopes to Transform New Jersey into Millennial Magnet
- The Garden State has the highest millennial outmigration in the country, but attention to education, tuition, and vocational training could go a long way to turning things around
- Newark Makes it onto List of 20 Finalists for Amazon’s Second Headquarters
- Online giant promises $5B investment and as many as 50,000 jobs. City and state have offered $7B in tax incentives to try to land the project
- Lawmakers Approve Massive Incentive Package to Try to Win Amazon HQ for Newark
- Almost unanimous bipartisan support for multi-billion-dollar goody bag aimed at enticing Amazon to build its new corporate headquarters in Garden State
- Judge Won't Block $380M Sale of Controversial State Bonds for Building Projects
- Opponents of Christie administration’s debt issuance for new government buildings are running out of options. Only a final court appeal — and a snowstorm — can obstruct bond sale now
- Legal Bid to Stop $200M State Bonds for Controversial Trenton Construction
- Opponents try to block Christie administration from issuing debt to finance new office buildings at same time as under-the-radar panel give thumbs-up to project
- Throwing the Book at Coastal Flooding and Sea-Level Rise
- A comprehensive report from NJ Future gives the governor-elect a new challenge: devise a coordinated response to help residents deal with flooding along the whole coastline
- EDA to Issue $400M in State Debt for Controversial Government Buildings
- Christie administration uses obscure committees and commissions to push through contentious construction plan, keeping Assembly and Senate out of the loop
- Pols Play Musical Chairs, Trenton’s $220M Building Project Gets Green Light
- After making some deft changes to a lowkey — but powerful — panel, bipartisan lawmakers give go-ahead to contentious government construction plan for downtown Trenton
- Regional Plan Association Offers Recommendations Big and Smaller for NJ
- From T-REX, a massive mass-transit agency, and a Meadowlands National Park to tighter governance and finances for NJ Transit and Port Authority
- Private Developers Pile in for Camden Reconstruction
- South Jersey city’s downtown and waterfront are being transformed as state’s $2B incentive program proves a big lure for builders
- Christie Administration’s Push for New Government Offices in Trenton Stymied
- Demolition of two state buildings and construction of two more fail to get go-ahead from State House Commission
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