Submitted by ScrollHectic t3_113sh1i in Newark
It's a large footprint - virtually an entire block in the Ironbound. The below youtube video shows the parcel assemblage. It will be 367 units, 20% affordable.
Zoning board special hearing for it is planned for Feb 23rd
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I think it was mostly commercial/industrial but has been demolished and flat for quite a while.
Do you have any more info on this PATH station? I’ve heard about a few different locations for added stations that were never built but never about anything in the ironbound.
There used to be a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger station above the South Street viaduct in the ironbound.
When PATH was studying extending the Newark-WTC line to EWR, they also looked at opening a PATH station on this site but later abandoned it due to site constraints.
South Street, there was an once a rail station there and path once said they would add one there on the way to southern expansion
I was wondering why it's so low , didn't realize Mulberry went all the way down there. I'm ok with that height in that part of the Ironbound. If it were near Penn then it should be a high rise or skyscraper.
Only thing I know for sure is it’s gonna be far too expensive to rent a place in that location
That area has a bunch of weird half empty blocks that I always wondered about.
Why can’t they go more vertical?
The majority of the Ironbound is capped at 5 stories. When the city zoned a few blocks near Penn to 12 and the closest to Penn to like 30 some people lost their minds.
Edit: here’s the zoning map. https://www.newarknj.gov/zoning
Google maps says it is a good 25 minute walk to Newark Penn station. It's not near the transit at all.
Its near 3 bus lines...so it has transit..
On the bright side, if that proposed South Street PATH Station ever happens that space will be in prime position to capitalize on it.
Last I heard, which admittedly was a while ago, is that a South St station is pretty much a no go because there isn't enough room for a platform given that 21 is a county road and not owned by the city.
I think there was a report/study put out by PATH that goes into that too. I have to imagine the county might be willing to accommodate if it’s a matter that.
The SB path track can easily go over 21 on a partial Viaduct over the Northbound Lanes. If they really wanted to build it, theyd find a way. Highways and roads are constantly realigned whenever the government wants to build rail or highways. Also keep in mind when the South Street station reactivation was dismissed that area was not seeing much Redevelopment. Since then, a major apartment building has been built right next to the old station on what used to be a former rail yard. You can still see the bridge that carried the siding over South Street just east of the bridge carrying the 4 main tracks. Developments like this will once again make the South Street Station viable.
It's only two or three blocks south of South Street, a bus route. And the building most likely will be in the Harrison Riverbend slash Red Bull Arena Zone model with interior parking and residential around the sides. But that's just my guess.
It would be a nice addition to the South Street / Oak Island neighborhood. Southernmost place in the Ironbound before the Oak Island Rail Yard itself.
thebruns t1_j8rz6v6 wrote
Anyone know what used to be there?
This building would be steps away from a the proposed and then cancelled PATH station of PA didnt hate people