The issues tomorrow will be the demolition of the existing buildings and the design of the new ones. If you support this tower and want to speak publicly, it is important to note the existing buildings are not worth saving and the new one complements the other historic buildings in the district and doesn’t detract from them. Similar situation to the newest glass Prudential tower on Broad. Decrepit out of use buildings replaced by a tower that brings life to the neighborhood.

Definitely had an unlicensed Corona there once. In a paper coffee cup.

First tower soon. The other two will take so long we will doubt it will happen but then it will.

The Arc tower meeting was an online community meeting and not the official hearing.

Community boards like this are bad. They serve to prevent development. We already have local elected officials and professional planning boards where the public can speak. Who chooses who sits on a community board? Who gets to represent the community? We have elections to decide that. NYC has these and they’re fucking terrible. At a minimum the extra time and effort to get through ends up raising the cost of a building and requires higher rents to make up for it. Hope it stays dead.

Labor and materials cost roughly the same in Newark as in JC and Manhattan. The biggest difference in cost would be land. Most large towers in Newark need subsidy in order to generate enough revenue to pay off what it costs to build them.

One summer, late at night when we were in bed with our windows open, we heard some kid singing and playing Britney Spears’ Hit Me, Baby, One More Time on his acoustic guitar. He was not good.