“Recession Threatens to Derail Transit Hub Tax Credit”- NJBIZ |
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Developers praise expansion to residential projects, but fear economy, limitations will blunt impact. |
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| Under the state Economic Stimulus Act…developers of residential projects in an urban transit hub, to receive a credit of up to 20 percent of its capital investment. | ||
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“Project Would Bring a Downtown to a Township”- Sunday Star-Ledger |
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| Downtowns are places for the community, where you can see what is going on, and people miss that. | ||
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It’s the downtown Livingston never had. Older New Jersey suburbs – Bloomfield, Montclair, and Summit among them – had a train station around which downtowns sprung. Not Livingston. “People who came out here wanted their back yards and garages and then found they missed their downtown,” said Beth Lippman, who has lived in this 14-square-mile community for 23 years. |
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“Livingston’s Old Plaza to Make Way for Retail Hub”
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| Livingston Manor Shopping Plaza has long been considered a white elephant in the heart of this sprawling suburb. |
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But soon the dowdy 1920′s plaza will be bulldozed to make way for a sized-use development intended to give Livingston a commercial hub it is now missing. The development, to be called Livingston Town center, is to have 50,000 square feet of stores – from boutiques to restaurants and upscale food shops – and 20,000 square feet of offices, with apartments above some some of the stores as well as a 233 car garage. |
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“Creating a Sense of Place”
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| Livingston, New Jersey, like many affluent suburban bedroom communities, used to lack a strong retail focus. Now local developers promise to build what residences want: a new downtown.
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| In most of the successful communities in the country, a joint venture comprised of Jacobs Enterprises, Eastman Companies and Roseland Property Company is developing a 13.8-acre mixed-use project that promises to create an entirely new downtown for the affluent Essex County community of Livingston, New Jersey.
Livingston Town Center, which will feature 50,000 square feet of retail space, 20, 000 square feet of office space and 114 residential units, is located at the northeast… |
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New Jersey Survial Conference – October 2009 (Downloadable PDF) |
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