Rockefeller Group developing plans to build Hoboken's tallest building

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Tuesday, July 6, 2010 Last updated: Tuesday July 6, 2010, 10:13 AM
BY JOSH MARGOLIN

Rockefeller first came to the city with its original concept nearly two years ago, in the final months of the administration of Mayor David Roberts.

"They certainly had come to us," said Roberts’ chief attorney at the time, Steve Kleinman. "They bought up a large number of properties in the northern segment of the town." Negotiations continued into last July and the start of the mayoral administration of Peter Cammarano III.

But the discussions, along with much city business, came to a standstill on July 23 when Cammarano was arrested as part of a massive corruption and money-laundering sting. Cammarano pleaded guilty in April to conspiracy to commit extortion by accepting $25,000 in illegal campaign donations from federal informant Solomon Dwek.

Zimmer said that any commitments made during her predecessors’ administrations are not binding.

http://www.northjersey.com/realestate/070610_Rockefeller_Group_developing_plans_to_build_Hobokens_tallest_building.html

So this project proposal is about 5 years old, and it has been stalled since Zimmer took office in 2009.

The overall Hoboken redevelopment plan is even older --

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Roberts_(mayor)

Early on during Roberts’ time on Council, he became the chief negotiator on development project with the Port Authority that began the first steps toward developing Hoboken's waterfront.

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1. The stall may be for the best.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Personally, I think Hoboken and other coastal areas of the region would be much better off focusing on building sea walls like the Netherlands -- before they do any other kind of new development.

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3. It makes even more sense to put development up on top of the Palisades

Hoboken was originally an island with the Hudson on the east side and a marsh separating it from the Palisades which rise to the Jersey Heights on its west side.

If you Google New York City and then do a streetview from the West Side Highway, you can look west and see the tall buildings atop the Palisades from Jersey City to Fort Lee.

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2. Of course it's a bad deal. Is there something confusing about The Rockefeller Group?

Maybe it's Mitsubishi that is too ambiguous?

Parasites do one thing and one thing only. It only works one way, period.

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4. Somebody must be keeping this proposal alive -- there must be some Hudson County Dem support

No developer in their right mind would make a proposal in Hudson County without first getting Democrat support.

I think that Dawn Zimmer is out of step with the HCDO. Wonder what Stack, Sacco, Fulop, Prieto, et al think?