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Editor:
From today's Record:

HACKENSACK -- More areas in the city are being targeted to be redeveloped.

The City Council has hired three planners to conduct studies on sections of the city and determine whether they should be declared areas in need of redevelopment. The city will spend more than $57,000 to hire the firms, City Attorney Joseph Zisa said.

Alaimo Group Consulting Engineers will be paid $25,000 to prepare a report centering on Green, Essex and South Newman streets.

Birdsall Engineering Inc. will earn $12,500 to evaluate Main Street near Banta Place, State Street and Salem Street.

Remington & Vernick Engineers will get $19,785 to conduct preliminary studies of properties on Passaic, Anderson, Park and Linden streets, as well as Panborn Place and Maple Avenue.

-- Monsy Alvarado

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Latest story:

Judge derails Hackensack bid to take over underused land

just watching:
This is sad turn of events. 

I have always thought that Tucci needed a little prodding to move ahead with his project. Even if the city made the project an official redevelopment, Tucci himself could have been selected as the developer by the city, to build HIS OWN PROPERTY.  But that way, the city would have been in the drivers seat, and totally in control of what is built, and when it is built.  The city council might not prefer a hotel,  maybe the council would have rather had a mixed use project.  I don’t know.

Peter Tucci  doesn’t like that scenario, he wants to be in control. But as far as I’m concerned, that’s what he gets for sitting on all that land for too long.
The judge’s ruling seems to mean that Tucci can move ahead independently with his hotel project, at his own pace. And that’s the problem. Even if it is approved by a city board, if it was a 100% private sector project, Tucci would have the right to shelve the project and not build it. That’s not acceptable. That property MUST be redeveloped. It looks hideous, it’s the southern gateway to the city, and it’s a waste of potentially needed ratables.

I’m also interested in seeing the area between Tucci’s holding and Moonachie Road to be redeveloped by eminent domain. The city has already outlined an area, without any residential houses, to be redeveloped.  It is along and near Moonachie Road where there are lots of small land holdings and a fragmented land use pattern. This is great case calling for eminent domain, even more so than Tucci’s larger land holding to the south. It would be a shame if the city was prevented from moving forwards on that one. 

That whole strip from the Little Ferry border up to the Record Campus will someday be the next Edgewater. It’ll be a mixed use area of retail strip centers with upscale townhouses and larger residential buildings.  And if the city has to nudge and prod land owners to move ahead, I’ll support that 100%.

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Latest story:  Land-seizure foes will get chance to speak

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Latest story:  Building owner bashes redevelopment plan

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