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Re: Area in need of Rehabilitation
« Reply #120 on: September 06, 2014, 03:08:03 PM »
On the left, at Mercer, are the Lobby & Office for the apartments. All the way on the right is the display window.

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Re: Area in need of Rehabilitation
« Reply #121 on: September 06, 2014, 08:48:24 PM »
Thanks for the photo and mini-drawing, I zoomed it to examine.  Looks like the lobby is on the corner, followed by a small office (unsure if that is the building mgmt office, or an office available for rent), then retail which is not very deep, and then the parking garage.

Based on the car symbols, it also looks like the parking garage's entry driveway is to Main Street, or is it just that the garage structure is there, with no storefront?  The pic is too fuzzy, can't tell.  Neither of those options are good, especially the first option. If someone knows the answer, please provide.

I only see 8 stories, what happened to 14?

I really think this is an excellent project, but in this case the Zoning or Planning Board did not do a good job steering the developer, tweeking this site plan. There are things that could have been done better.
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Re: Area in need of Rehabilitation
« Reply #122 on: September 06, 2014, 09:56:52 PM »
I will try to post a better image. Garage entry/exit is on Moore Street. The display window is right in front of where the cars are shown.This photo does not show the depth of the retail. It is about 3 times that depth. The photo does not show the full height. It is 14 stories. I think it is a great project. I was impressed with the presentation at the meeting.

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Re: Area in need of Rehabilitation
« Reply #123 on: September 06, 2014, 10:07:10 PM »
Sorry plans are a bit wrinkled from being folded. This is street level. Apartments begin on 3rd floor. Parking is basement, 1st & 2nd floors

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Re: Area in need of Rehabilitation
« Reply #124 on: September 07, 2014, 12:09:55 PM »
OK, so the "display window" will be filled with retail-looking things, and maybe some advertising. And the vehicle entrance is in the back.  Sounds better.  I am wondering if the setback is adequate for outside dining/seating for a restaurant.

I see there is just about 100% lot coverage, but I also recall that the roof will be green space for the residents and used for recreation.

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Re: Area in need of Rehabilitation
« Reply #125 on: September 12, 2014, 05:06:44 PM »
Parking rates may rise if Hackensack council OKs parking authority
September 12, 2014    Last updated: Friday, September 12, 2014, 12:31 AM
By Paul S. Hummel
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Hackensack Chronicle

HACKENSACK – Parking rates may rise in certain areas of the city as much as 300 percent in 2015 with the establishment of a municipal parking authority if the Mayor and Council agree to all points of a proposal that was presented at the council meeting on Sept. 2.

Leonard Bier of the Bier Associates firm presented a video recommending increasing the per hour rate on Main Street and Bergen Street meter from $0.25 per hour to $0.75 per hour.

In addition, other areas such as Washington Place and Bridge Street, are facing rate hikes from this year's rate of $0.50 per hour. Furthermore, an average increase of about 45 percent in 2015 and 65 percent in 2017 for permit and garage parking.

http://www.northjersey.com/towns/parking-rates-may-rise-if-council-oks-parking-authority-1.1086571

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Re: Area in need of Rehabilitation
« Reply #126 on: September 28, 2014, 11:32:37 PM »
Digital sleuth saves Hackensack long delay in redevelopment project

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014, 3:55 PM    LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2014, 8:45 PM
BY TODD SOUTH
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Hackensack plans to develop a parking lot near the Ice House and Bowler City into a multi million dollar project.

HACKENSACK — A multimillion-dollar redevelopment of a 4.3-acre parking lot near the Hackensack River was facing years of delays because of missing property records and a set of Colonial-era state laws.

But a history-minded city employee made a discovery that may spare the city years of waiting and expense to get the project moving.

- See more at: http://www.northjersey.com/news/digital-sleuth-saves-hackensack-long-delay-in-redevelopment-project-1.1097939?page=all#sthash.gvS5u6Pp.dpuf

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Re: Area in need of Rehabilitation
« Reply #127 on: September 29, 2014, 02:05:52 PM »
Here's a vote for the creation of the "The Hackensack HistoricAL Society".

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Re: Area in need of Rehabilitation
« Reply #128 on: September 29, 2014, 04:54:31 PM »
Can that be done without changing the form of government?

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Re: Area in need of Rehabilitation
« Reply #129 on: October 09, 2014, 10:00:46 PM »
Hackensack project would create hundreds of apartments in former downtown bank building
OCTOBER 9, 2014, 7:51 PM    LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2014, 7:51 PM
BY TODD SOUTH
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HACKENSACK – Construction could begin by January on a third major downtown residential redevelopment project that is likely to be voted on by the City Council later this month.

Three adjacent properties, anchored by 210 Main St., -- the former Bank of America building -- comprise the project that was publicly described in detail this week before the council. The project was approved by the city’s planning board on Wednesday.

Plans call for the development of 327 units total in the three buildings – 96 units at 210 Main St., 39 units at 214 Main St., and 192 units at 210 Moore St.

- See more at: http://www.northjersey.com/news/hackensack-project-would-create-hundreds-of-apartments-in-former-downtown-bank-building-1.1106379#sthash.vHX9Ti1u.dpuf

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Re: Area in need of Rehabilitation
« Reply #130 on: October 16, 2014, 06:35:03 PM »
Panel discusses ways to energize Bergen County downtowns

OCTOBER 16, 2014    LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2014, 1:48 PM
BY LAURA HERZOG
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Ridgewood Chamber of Commerce President Paul Vagianos, from left, Fairview Chamber of Commerce member Frank Del Vecchio, Paramus Regional Chamber of Commerce President Fred Rohdieck and Hackensack Chamber of Commerce member Francis Reiner were part of a panel that discussed ways to energize Bergen County downtowns.

Ridgewood, Fairview, Hackensack and Paramus may have very different community identities, but they do have one thing in common: They all care about the development of their economic centers.

This was clear when officials representing each of these communities spoke on a Bergen Community College panel on Oct. 7 about the challenges and triumphs they have encountered during ongoing efforts to support their economic centers.

- See more at: http://www.northjersey.com/news/business/business-leaders-agree-rising-tide-lifts-all-boats-1.1111089?page=all#sthash.A1VjkVtF.dpuf
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Re: Area in need of Rehabilitation
« Reply #132 on: November 11, 2014, 06:20:51 PM »
And once Main & State streets become two-way, there will immediately be a conflict between traffic flow and redevelopment.  And future city planners will change the zoning to limit redevelopment, because the street network won't be able to handle so many more units and their cars.  That's one of the main reasons the traffic flow should remain one-way.

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Re: Area in need of Rehabilitation
« Reply #133 on: November 11, 2014, 07:32:38 PM »
I agree with Just Watching not only for the reasons he talks about; but, for the astronomical costs of the undertaking. Just for sake of discussion, take a look at the area of Main Street and State Streets between Essex Street and Bridge Street and Bergen Street. The County has a huge building project underway  behind Court Street. At some point in time traffic flow into and out of the new facilities will have to be considered in conjunction with any one way change over. Even without the new building construction, the entire intersection of Main Street, Hudson Street and Essex Streets would have to be ripped up and reconfigured to allow for two way flow. And of course sewer, drainage and utility relocation would have to be accounted for.
That would all have to be tied into new signification at Main and Sussex Streets and Bridge Street as well as State Street.
An uneducated guess would be that one million dollars just for this one area would be in the ballpark.
If I am correct, EssexStreet is a County Road so until some kind of joint planning is undertaken, the whole one way/ two way issue is really premature.

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Re: Area in need of Rehabilitation
« Reply #134 on: November 16, 2014, 01:11:08 AM »
Bergen County's suburbs embrace a touch of the city

NOVEMBER 16, 2014    LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2014, 10:01 AM
BY JOAN VERDON
STAFF WRITER | THE RECORD

Demand for rental units near transportation has already prompted some towns, including Ridgewood, above, to alter their downtowns.

Robert Weiner, co-owner of the Bruce the Bed King mattress and furniture store on Hackensack’s Main Street, last week took his 96-year-old father to see a first in the 60 years since his family opened its store — a 222-unit apartment building rising on State Street, a block from downtown.

That project and two others that will put an additional 700 apartments on Main Street are the result of zoning revisions that Hackensack put in place two years ago and the first signs of a policy shift that could produce the biggest transformation of North Jersey’s downtowns since the arrival of the malls pulled shoppers away from town centers in the 1960s and 1970s.

A growing number of North Jersey municipalities, like Hackensack, believe that adding rental apartments in their downtowns is the key to revitalizing their Main Streets. Not everyone, though, is convinced that downtowns and residential apartments are a perfect fit.
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