I currently live in Middlesex county but I’ll always rep the hometown no matter what. What do they say? The amount of times I’ve had to tell people that Newark isn’t a warzone is astonishing. The city has changed for better or worse depends on who you ask, so opinions are divided but it’s still a great city would still like to see more representation next time.

Right! It was literally an outdoor sculpture and someone's upset they're storing it outdoors? LOL!

That doesn't surprise me that most of the people aren't from Newark. They way they talk about current residents of this city...

Opportunities for whom? The gentrifiers moving in or the original residents being priced out? The locally owned businesses that can't afford the new high rents or the national retailers who pay too low for their workforce to live in the now gentrified city they work in?

I think balance is key and I'm happy that we don't have runaway gentrification like so many people on here dream about. Growth and change is healthy and, like someone pointed out, there is room for more people but it shouldn't be at the detriment to others. And that's what the "Ghetto Lobby" is fighting for - balance.

And I don't understand why people still point to this "Ghetto Lobby" when clearly lots of development proposals get approved. It's like when Trump kept brining up Hilary Clinton years after anything she did had any relevance.

It's both nonsense.

Yeah developers can do more as a gesture of good faith, as part of financing / grant schemes, or to off-set variances.

I think it also makes it harder to judge right now because housing prices are up everywhere. A lot of the construction hasn’t even had people move in either. If it will be locals or people trying to get affordable commuter living remains to be seen but anywhere along a train line the developers seem to build “luxury” apartments.

Idk why I thought 40. I think maybe one building that voluntarily. My bad. 20% isn't nearly the same level. Still considerable though.

LOL at how when Newark decides to rename a street its "Newark is getting rid of history", but when White people try to change the historic boundary of a community to exclude minorities no one says that its destroying our history.

The inclusionary zoning Ordinance is a 20% affordable set aside.

Hopefully it happens soon, activist are only looking for fame because there is absolutely no good for locals by keeping the status quo, those who can afford immediately send their kids to private schools outside the city or move out to provide their heirs better opportunities. Gentrification comes with a price but it offers opportunities and better local schools.

The gentrification is coming. Just give it time & be ready. Newark’s geographic position, rail connections, & currently depreciated property values make it a prime target for NY-centric gentrifier developers.

Meh. It’s kind of like taking a mortgage on your house at 5% because you can take the cash out and invest it at 7%.

North Newark (ex Woodside twp.), southeastern Bloomfield & southern Belleville share an unincorporated area called Silver Lake. The entire area sits on the flat lakebed of glacial lake Watssessing. Silver Lake was the remnant Sunfish pond expanded by a dam in 1800s to create Silver Lake for ice harvesting.

When Newark annexed "old Woodsie" , Woodside was divided along the eastern shore of Silver Lake. Everything west including the lake itself, returned to Belleville. Woodside itself lasted only 2 years after succeeding from Belleville. It sought annexation to Newark after a rich prosperous expanding Newark agreed to cover its debt.

In 1889 the dam burst during a storm. That was the end of Silver Lake.

As whites moved out of Newark & Hispanic immigrants moved in, the white majority Belleville & Bloomfield got the US Census to shrink the boundaries of Silver Lake to exclude Newark. The Newark area was renamed "Stadium Section" (Now part of "Upper Roseville".

But many Newarkers aware of Newark history ain't going for that racist revisionism.

So Im glad it's called SILVER LAKE Hospital.

Imma loan myself some cash and the write it off

Permanent financing as opposed to a construction loan. In this case looks like the developer “loaned itself” some cash.

I think the big issue in this article is that it’s only looking at Newark overall. Gentrification is apparent, but only we if we focus on individual neighborhoods like the Ironbound and Forest Hill. Places that at most were asking 1400 for a 2BR near South St are now asking for at least 2400. A house in Forest Hill recently became the first one-family in Newark to sell for over $1 million. It’s a tediously slow process that hasn’t yet spread to other neighborhoods , but it’s happening.

Didn't grow up here but have lived here for over a decade. I was at the last one and it was awesome but couldn't make this one. Hoping there is another sometime this year.

Newark is not seeing gentrification even close to many/most other cities, and I'm not sure it will. That does not stop the political shtick which uses it as a buzz word. We don't have widespread or significant gentrification yet you still have an ordinance requiring (EDIT) 20% affordable housing in new buildings. You'd think the city would encourage more rapid gentrification at least in the downtown area, knowing that vast swaths of the city are so far off from it than such ordinance could be enacted later. Still, with Halo and etc going up, downtown is headed that direction. Ironbound an intriguing hybrid of a cultural center primed for hospitality already, now kind of seeing an influx.

Interesting that this research found Newark mayors to be putting forth pro-gentrification policies, yet despite that Newark still stalling in that regard. I suppose that's a mixed bag of good thing/bad thing. Newark has a complex history with alot of other factors, including the racial politics that won't go away on either end of the racial dynamic, a new political racial divide amongst Latinos who are a rising power, and the unique subdivision and territorialism of New Jersey and its municipalities. I'm interested to see where Newark is in about 20 years...I imagine it will continue to evolve, but I never saw some Brooklyn or Jersey City. I'm not sure it even has the housing stock, let alone the intangible factors for that to happen.

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Newark is a big city and still has a lot of room for infill and large scale developments relative to other areas. I think there’s still room/time for Newark to absorb additional developments before “gentrification” as we know it (ie people becoming displaced on a large scale due to housing price outs) truly happens.

Gentrification will happen it just made a pitstop in Harrison first but once all these luxury buildings are finished around Newark Penn its going to pick up.

I live down the street from this. It came up incredibly fast. I wish the city would sell their municipal land in the same area and put a few more of these guys up

Thought there would be more people there, the turnout was about 8 or so when I arrived? Not sure if anyone was actually from Newark either? Not to say it shouldn't be all inclusive but was surprised at how no one mentioned they were from the city? Atmosphere was cool, but no one really took advantage of all the other games available? Hopefully next time more people show up and we can all join in to more activities or have discussion about the city or swap stories about growing up in the city. Just my opinion.

East Orange has improved its nowhere as bad as it used to be.