Ibby’s ReturnsIbby’s Falafel, the much beloved Grove Street fixture closed for months of renovations has finally reopened. Go, eat falafel. Developer scales back abatementGrove Pointe is backing out of its 20 year tax abatement in favor of phasing in regular taxes over the next five years citing a savings for the developer. This Way UpNew […]
Littered park to be pretty ‘plaza’The Grove Street PATH plaza has a name, and has nothing to do with Grove or Pointe. A park extending onto roofs up for discussion in Hoboken12 story high development approved for Hoboken with the caveat of public roof decks, or something crazy like that.
111 First Street may not be the ugliest building to grace the Jersey City skyline. Gridskipper went and asked a bunch of experts what they thought were the ugliest buildings in Manhattan. Joey Arak, writer for Curbed points to the Zebra Building saying “You come up from the tunnel, thrilled to be out of Jersey, […]
GlobeSt.com is reporting that 154 Steuben Street will soon see 18 units rise from a parking lot located there. The building is being built by TreeTop of New York, and Fields Development, responsible for Waldo Lofts, among others downtown. 154 Steuben is located just north of Columbus Plaza and Tower with this neighborhood fast becoming […]
A month ago, this small commuter parking lot was filled with cars. And then we saw a piece of heavy equipment parked on the lot and a green privacy fence that usually means some sort of construction. From what we can tell, we’re talking about a small mixed use development with shops– 10,000 square feet– […]
According to a rumor circulating over on the Kannekt forum, Grove Pointe will soon be home to everyone’s favorite Seattle Coffee house and a Duane Reade. An anonymous user writes: “I went to sales office, they said that Starbucks and Duane Reade have already signed on for retail space” Of course, the great thing about […]
A tipster tells us a rumor is circulating that Starbucks might be scouting locations on Grove Street or Columbus Drive. The tipster claimed a Newport Starbucks employee had made the claim that two new locations would soon be headed to the downtown area. We all know how untrustworthy baristas can be (like “oh yeah, that’s […]
Rumors have been circulating all over the internet ever since Metropolis Towers began to demolish the low-rise strip mall between the two towers. Yet, with all the other construction projects around the site– Grove Pointe, Columbus Plaza, and Gulls Cove just to name a few– its easy to forget the potential of this lot. According […]
The long closed “park” at the corner of Christopher Columbus and Grove Street opened today, sort of. The park is quite obviously not finished, and not too obviously a park yet either. The developers of Grove Pointe agreed to rebuild the park while constructing the tower. Astute observers may be asking themselves what exactly was […]
