No, it's just that there is a lot more time and labor involved than getting a tree and digging a hole.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.silive.com/news/2022/04/with-tree-costs-rising-are-pushes-for-another-million-tree-program-in-nyc-in-jeopardy-experts-explain.html%3foutputType=amp

Would sooner walk across broken glass.

This is an interesting question.

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I have said this before on this sub. Every historical building worth preserving is already well preserved. Historical preservation commissions serve only 2 purposes:

1. It give extraordinary power to unelected elites to determine whist constitutes the “public good”

2 it’s a giant money laundering/ wealth transfer scheme that washes public funds into the pockets of the elites through tax credits, grants and other giveaways

The saddest part is that there are so many uninformed sheeple who so easily fall prey to this whole scale scam.

Yup, i’m all for maintaining historical areas, but where the Arc is located is far from “historical”

Running for office?

My company plants trees for 3 and a half times the price of the tree to account for time labor fuel ect...the average tree that will be planted as a 'sidewalk' tree will probably be between 8-10 ft tall and will be what ever is cheapest at the time usually between 200-300 max for that height(species doesn't matter because towns do not ever plan for 20-30 years and possibly sooner because of how little open area newark actually has due to population and over development when roots start to push up sidewalks and the height of the tree disrupts overhead wires so they'll plant completely inappropriate trees for the application such as locust or maple because it's the flavor of the month and again cheapest) so at the very most each tree should be about 1200 but then also take into consideration they will be purchased in bulk making them cheaper than a contractor would get them one at a time..newark should be able to plant 1132 new trees at a minimum given these factors...I'm sure that number will not even be half of that and probably less but most people will have no clue how to go about knowing how much it costs a contractor to plant a tree.

Edit - I just realized they are only planting 330 trees...2k of that 3500 per tree or so is not going toward planting trees lol

It’s disgusting to see these elites that live in the so called historic district gloat over their abuse of the historic preservation commission to effectively torpedo developments they find counter to their interest. Notice how the “approved” projects are all low density and as a result will be able to avoid the affordable housing mandate.

Wonder where all the social justice/ anti gentrification peeps on this sub went to?

The arc was supposed to have ~350 units of apartments; 20% would be 70 units of net new adds to the affordable housing stock in the city.

No prizes for guessing how many affordable units this 8th wonder of the world will have.

With friends like this who need enemies 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Weehawchic and Clinton hill will be last . Lower Broadway and Roseville will be first. Eventually it will all gentrify just like JC.

It's the infill projects for me! They are lower visibility but also important. Drove down Market Street in the Ironbound this Saturday and saw a few projects recently completed or nearing completion that I didn't even know were being built. Smaller bldgs (10 to maybe 20 units) but about a half dozen of them.

Drive around certain parts of the city, and you'll see a good number of these

Yes.

Thats been a shitshow forever. For years that site was home to the Pabst brewery, super visible from the parkway. Once it closed it got scrapped and became a massive eyesore that sat there for over a decade. When they eventually did tear it down they apparently did not properly remediate the building for pests. Rats flooded the surrounding neighborhood by the thousand, and it's been a huge problem ever sense. Meanwhile that land just sits there. The whole thing just sucks.

Love that Newark is getting the grant to plant healthy trees!

FYI, I drive through Berkeley heights and they have lots of trees…not sure why they were given $700k

Damn, how much does it cost to plant a tree?

Give it another 50yrs and the whole city and surrounding cities will gentrify ...in 10yrs it will start to spread in from the Oranges , Elizabeth and Bloomfield.

As an aside, this photo is excellent with the lighting and composition imo.

330 trees for 1.2 mil. That’s works out to be ~ 3500/ tree. No prizes for guessing who’s “cousin” will get these contracts 😂

Forest Hill, since it doesn't need gentrification. Old money FTW.

I believe Kawaida Tower is waiting on an ASPIRE grant from the state.

Opportunity Zone tax break expired.

I get where you’re coming from. I’m not thrilled about it overall either, but what can you do sometimes.

That’s better than what I expected too. Think it will improve as more restaurants open up and more Seton Hall/Devils games go on over time.

Just looking out my window, I can see two projects currently going up...

55 Norfolk (only like 5 stories, never had a crane) 165 residential units & 3200sqft of retail.

Not sure the exact address, but there's one that's been going up on/around Hoyt Street (behind Giovanni's pizza across from NJIT) that actually has the crane up right now.

I don't follow all the exact projects, names, addresses, developers, city approval processes, inside leg measurements for the developer's CEO like some of the weirdos in here do.

My point was that a lack of cranes in the skyline is not an indication of a lack of development. These things take time, there is always plenty of red tape and hoops to jump through.

Just take a drive or walk around and you'll see an insane amount of stuff happening. Sure, they aren't all 75 story skyscrapers, but that's irrelevant.

Im grateful for your comments here, just noting that the current setup means zero walk-up traffic from folks who dont work in there. It doesnt look open. I appreciated avoiding the rain though.

Which reminds me, from my walk today (9am), I would guess there was about 40% as many people in the corridor vs pre-pandemic. A little better than what I expected actually. I saw 3 people in the Dunkin, pre-covid there were 6-12 waiting usually (and there were 2 open)

I mean the development boom is literally still here. There is a crap ton of new housing under construction or just a few months away from leasing, and many more other projects in the neighborhoods that are stabilizing the city.

If you are asking why havent we seen more towers under construction at the moment, it might have to do with the interest rates on borrowing money going up/potentially a more planned slow down by the city and developers to not swarm the city with too much construction and new housing as that can kill any positive growth the city has seen over the last few years.