[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Condos vs. Port at former Bayonne Army Terminal (NJ)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Developer that sought to build luxury condos on Peninsula at Bayonne  
Harbor files suit asking for damages from BLRA's sale of adjoining  
area to Port Authority for use as a container port


By CHARLES HACK
JERSEY JOURNAL (NJ)
April 20, 2011
By now, luxury condos were supposed to be rising at the northwestern  
end of the Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor. Instead, there's weeds,  
wildlife, and trash at the old military base.

Six years ago, the developers Fidelco Bayonne Realty of Millburn and  
Roseland/Bayonne of Short Hills signed a development agreement with  
the Bayonne Local Redevelopment Authority to build 447 residential  
units and retail space on 47 acres of the 201-acre site dubbed Harbor  
Station.

But in a lawsuit filed last month in Hudson County Superior Court the  
developers claim that the BLRA crushed any possibility of them  
building an upscale, mixed development community when on Aug. 3, 2010  
the agency sold 131 adjacent acres to the Port Authority of New York  
and New Jersey to be used for a container port.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.defensecommunities.org/headlines/developer-sues-bayonne- 
lra-over-container-port/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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