Two Major New Jersey Development Projects Secure Key Approvals

The Bayonne development is comprised of several buildings, which include a new 218-key premium hotel, nearly 75,000 square feet of retail space, and 4,500 residential housing units.

3-D rendering of the development proposed by Mahalaxmi Flagship, LLC. Credit: Scarinci Hollenbeck Partners

LYNDHURST, NJ—Locally-based law firm Scarinci Hollenbeck Partners reports that two significant real estate development projects secured municipal approvals earlier this month.

Law firm partners Donald M. Pepe, Patrick J. McNamara and Michael A. Jimenez shepherded the two significant development proposals through the approval process in Bayonne and North Bergen, NJ.

Mahalaxmi Flagship, LLC) applied to the Planning Board of the City of Bayonne seeking General Development Plan approval for a proposed large-scale mixed-use development. The Bayonne development is comprised of several buildings, which include a new 218-key premium hotel, nearly 75,000 square feet of retail space, and 4,500 residential housing units. The development is located in the Harbor Station South Redevelopment Area in Bayonne. McNamara and Pepe represented Mahalaxmi before the Bayonne Planning Board when the application was heard and approved at the board’s meeting earlier this month.

In addition, ETS Realty, LLC applied to the North Bergen Board of Adjustment, seeking Municipal Zoning Board approval for a proposed luxury hotel on Paterson Plank Road in North Bergen. The currently unnamed 12-story hotel project, when completed, will feature 198 rooms, luxury amenities, two stories of a state-of-the-art automated parking system for guests, a rooftop bar, spa, and more.

Jimenez and Pepe of Scarinci Hollenbeck Partners represented ETS Realty before the North Bergen Board of Adjustment, which approved the project earlier this month.