No we just need more big buildings and then all the problems will go away you see

This is the best post I have read so far! This post truly brings up how we are all wrapped up in preconceived ideas of race and class. Thank you Kaleb!

So many reasons…

But the most basic reason I will give is that this doesn’t help the residents of Newark. There’s ALREADY more empty housing available in Newark than there are homeless people and this won’t solve our homeless problem. There’s already too many glass buildings and not enough canopy cover for walking around, and this will contribute to the problem. There’s already issues with parking and this provides no additional parking while, as just mentioned, making the city more uncomfortable to walk in.

I oppose trying to change the population of the city over reinvesting in what the people of this city actually need. Especially since, as you very well know, there are ALREADY a bunch of developments going up.

This development includes 20% affordable housing - the absolute minimum they can include - and I guarantee that the 20% won’t be affordable to the majority of people in Newark that need housing help.

So I oppose it.

And why don’t u like the project?

Might be easier to piggyback in an existing event like Newark First Fridays.

Unfortunately I’m not in favor of this project and I doubt Calvin will convey my disapproval as it is counter to his objective. I’ll try to find the meetings and show up in person.

Oh yeah I almost forgot, the developer family will be paying for the tower construction.

Yup that’s what I was trying to point out. Fingers crossed.

Unfortunately I don’t have board members emails but Calvin did agree to send the letters to them

I commute into the city for work from Harrison on the Path train…but still have a car for non-work reasons. I imagine others do the same 👍🏽

You say you want more art deco and then you say you don't want it to be like Miami. You contradicted yourself because Miami has Art Deco and glass. In fact, Miami was the king of art deco. Now it is the southern king of both glass and art deco. So why can't Newark do the same?

Regarding the design, I think we should compare what is proposed with the likely counterfactual rather than with some ideal.

Consider the likely options with rental buildings. Typically, rental apartment towers are thrown up with the least consideration for exterior aesthetics. Painted concrete, ungainly proportions dictated entirely by interior design, PTACs galore. Or some design that is touted as contextual but value-engineered to the hilt.

Here we have a developer willing to spend some more money on the design. Note for example the way the tower cantilevers over its base floor in the renderings.

But the building is not contextual, the critics say.

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Who here among us would wish the iconic (Broad and Academy) Prudential Plaza had never been built? And yet, does it look like any building around it? Did it look like anything around it when it was built in 1960?

I'm reminded of a Douglas Adams quote about technology, which can readily be paraphrased to apply to the built environment:

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A set of rules that describe standard (NIMBY) reactions to buildings:

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1. Anything that is already built in your town when you are born is normal and ordinary and just a natural part of your world.
2. Anything that is built when you are young is new and exciting.
3. Anything built after you're 30-35 or so is against the natural order of things.

I generally do sympathize with regard to sidewalks, but it's McCarter Highway -- who really wants to be walking on the sidewalk there next to multiple lanes of fast-moving traffic? The pedestrian traffic would be mostly at the corner and on Market St. Instead of a parking lot, we have a building that will add 400+ residents downtown. How is this not good? The cladding on the parking podium isn't bad either. Boraie looks to be doing a pretty good job of it, though of course one can't be sure until it's finished. But note too what appears to be a grand entrance on Market St.

I'd be down to go. This sub has really been moving in an activist direction, and I think meeting in person would only strengthen that.

Citiquare is the one that stands out. Problem is that it has 3,000 parking spaces for a transit-oriented development across from Broad Street Station. Why?

When are the board meetings and do you have emails for the board members and the city?

Oh yeah baby 😎

Don’t see how that effects the city in whole. North Newark isn’t getting effected by tiny sidewalks. The tower bring more residents, more residents more small businesses, more small businesses more jobs, more jobs more economic opportunities

Midtown Manhattan is very developed. Its a shit place to live.

Look at how the new Shaq building is destroying the streetscape with a parking podium and tiny tiny tiny sidewalks. Thats going to be garbage for 100 years.

They need to get it right from the start.

If you did it, I’d go. I live in downtown Newark and I constantly marvel at how little there is to do in this town after hours.

Maybe

In the ironbound, grab a pasteis de nata at Teixera’a Bakery. Sihana is good for coffee. Both on Ferry Street. Independence Park is nice for people watching and you’ll pass by a lot of the local businesses. Burke’s tavern is a new spot with pretty good food right near the arena.

If you’d rather check out downtown, Military Park is nice and you could check out the Hahne Building. Black Swan Espresso is good for coffee downtown. The building with Newark Local Beer is cool in terms of architecture - art deco. A bit further but not exactly walking distance is Branch Brook Park and the Basilica which is stunning. Enjoy!

Love it!

Without development how will we get a better city

I hear you but the tower would be iconic with it’s current design. The building falls into military park district, the same area that house the new prudential tower. One theater square and Shaq tower 1 are art deco type towers do they look iconic in their district. If this is going to be Newark next tallest it has to look the part