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ahtasva t1_j5m0u0x wrote

It’s disgusting to see these elites that live in the so called historic district gloat over their abuse of the historic preservation commission to effectively torpedo developments they find counter to their interest. Notice how the “approved” projects are all low density and as a result will be able to avoid the affordable housing mandate.

Wonder where all the social justice/ anti gentrification peeps on this sub went to?

The arc was supposed to have ~350 units of apartments; 20% would be 70 units of net new adds to the affordable housing stock in the city.

No prizes for guessing how many affordable units this 8th wonder of the world will have.

With friends like this who need enemies 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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effort268 t1_j5mhr72 wrote

Yup, i’m all for maintaining historical areas, but where the Arc is located is far from “historical”

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ahtasva t1_j5mijxn wrote

I have said this before on this sub. Every historical building worth preserving is already well preserved. Historical preservation commissions serve only 2 purposes:

  1. It give extraordinary power to unelected elites to determine whist constitutes the “public good”

2 it’s a giant money laundering/ wealth transfer scheme that washes public funds into the pockets of the elites through tax credits, grants and other giveaways

The saddest part is that there are so many uninformed sheeple who so easily fall prey to this whole scale scam.

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Newarkguy1836 t1_j5mtyjl wrote

Living in Newark all my life I eventually learned James Street is mostly populated by city hall employees a handful of college professors who think they're above it all.

Especially a former Newark police commissioner or chief who decided he was going to alter the facade of a historic building on the corner of Washington and James Street. The very historic windows were replaced by little windows. Naturally, nothing happened to him. But I digress.

They are majority African-American and their opposition to high density development is double ended. On one end they want no low income housing. On the other end they don't want to upset the racial balance of the neighborhood. As I stated before, the ark will upset the desired minority majority nah! I'll just say it . The liberal black majority racial balance of the neighborhood. I suspect City square and the port now are having issues behind the scenes with these James Street Elite wannabes.

They don't even want minority capitalists and entrepreneurs!

But as to the actual proposed building, I like it I would prefer if duplicates fill in James Street, Burnett and Eagles. But we need to have large buildings at least four stories on the corners with room for retail or restaurant!

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