Northern Heights

Construction Bonanza in the Works in Northern New Jersey

A slew of new projects has begun and more is on the way in New Jersey's heavily populated northeastern region. Major residential, commercial, and infrastructure projects are in the works in Bergen, Essex, and Hudson counties.

The tally includes a planned $6 billion commuter rail tunnel for New Jersey Transit that would cross under the Hudson River into Midtown Manhattan; a swath of new residential towers still darting up on Jersey City's waterfront and other residential complexes along the Hudson River in Hoboken, Weehawken, and Edgewater; three major mall expansions around Paramus and Hackensack; a $160 million redevelopment in Harrison for a residential, office, and retail complex with a new soccer stadium for the New York Red Bulls; and a redevelopment worth more than $1 billion turning Bayonne's former military base into new communities. And Newark has a $310 million arena for the New Jersey Devils hockey team under construction, though in late June, the city was seeking a new construction manager after a Hunt-Bovis Lend Lease joint venture left the project.

Other new projects are also active to the west, including large office developments under construction in Morris County for Pfizer, Novartis, and the Gale Co. that together are worth more than $375 million. And in Passaic County, Paterson's historic mill district is set for a redevelopment that will bring 973 residential units, a hotel, and retail spaces.

Adding to the impressive slate of work are mammoth plans for developing the Meadowlands region just west of Manhattan. See our coverage of the billions of dollars of work on the way in that district and our profiles of three other projects in the northeastern New Jersey region in the pages that follow.

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