Rendering of One Journal Square, Jersey City, NJ

JERSEY CITY, NJ—Jersey City's Planning Board approved two major mixed-use development projects, named One Journal Square and 30 Journal Square, a decision praised by long-time development advocate and Genova Burns attorney Eugene T. Paolino. Paolino represents developer Kushner Companies and the KABR Group.

“This continues the inevitable movement of Jersey City redevelopment from the waterfront to the City's interior, particularly toward the Journal Square transportation hub – a major draw for millennials seeking housing, as well as the retail businesses and offices that provide them with goods and services,” says Paolino.

Paolino describes the projects, with three mixed-use towers (56-, 79-, and 72- stories each), as “absolutely unique.”

“A one-acre plaza as large as that of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art with a graceful memorial fountain is planned at the foot of One Journal Square, which will bring green space to the heart of the city,” he says. “Further, the former Jersey Journal building will enable developer Kushner/KABR to create a striking vertical landscape that opens into another magnificent public plaza with a promenade bracketed by two retail buildings off of Sip Avenue.”

Both projects offer an efficient pathway to the Journal Square Transportation Center.

Approval of the projects by the Planning Board on August 16 comes a week after Mayor Steven Fulop proposed a municipal open space tax to raise $1.2 million annually for open space and parks in the state's second largest city.

Paolino has lived and worked in Jersey City and has been the attorney for many landmark real estate projects along the Hudson River. Paolino notes this project “exemplifies the city's transformation into becoming one of the most exciting and appealing urban communities on the East Coast.”

Paolino describes the projects, with three mixed-use towers (56-, 79-, and 72- stories each), as “absolutely unique.”

Both projects offer an efficient pathway to the Journal Square Transportation Center.

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