[CPEO-BIF] Harrison, New Jersey's redevelopment plan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Harrison Tries to Score With Development


By KAVITA MOKHA
Wall Street Journal
January 28, 2011


Nearly a year after the Red Bull Arena opened its doors in Harrison, 
N.J., the urban rebirth some had hoped for the Hudson County town has 
yet to gel, but signs of development are beginning to emerge.

Once a thriving manufacturing and distribution center nicknamed the 
"Beehive of Industry," Harrison was home to factories for Thomas A. 
Edison and Radio Corp. of America, among others. But it had turned into 
bleak, brownfield-littered landscape along the Passaic River as most of 
the factory lights had gone out by the 1970s, putting the town into a 
tailspin.

The March opening of a $200 million, 25,000-seat soccer stadium was 
meant to be the centerpiece of an ambitious redevelopment plan put 
together more than a decade ago. The plan—covering more than 250 acres, 
a full third of the town's total footprint—envisions building 
residential and retail space in various projects as well as a new PATH 
train station.

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For the entire article, see
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703293204576106073095603138.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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