These billboards have popped up along the M&E lines in Greater Newark area. ( This photo South Orange station)

Got me thinking....I've never seen Newark advertise itself in JC....in Fact, Newark doesn't exist to anyone looking for travel info in the NJTPK or GSP travel kiosks. But I've seen brochures for Toronto,Montreal,Boston, DC, Philly, Baltimore & of course ..NYC.

Newark needs to step up to the plate & prejucided NJ needs to acknowledge Newark as its flagship city, instead of saying "NJ this, NJ that!"

JERSEY GARDENS MALL at the Mills has a large beautiful "WELCOME TO ELIZABETH" poster.

Newark airports new terminal A has a giant "NJ" "WELCOME TO NJ".

(Maybe this should be under "rant"? LOL) I rest my case.

Downtown Newark doesn't have anywhere near the residential population to support Halsey Street being pedestrian only. I only find out about new spots at Halsey when I happened to spot them by accident while waiting for the light. You make Halsey Street pedestrian only I guarantee you thousands of people will never set eyes on that street that would otherwise do so on their visit to Rutgers or NJIT having just gotten off 280.

The render view from the river also stars the completed Halo Towers.

Excellent minions architecture w a rooftop domed 365 day botanical garden. James Street Commons are having a stroke over this.😂🤣😂🤣

James St SHOULD dissolve. What a bunch of self righteous garbage!

Among the testimonial bs...

• "We don't oppose the tower, we just want it shorter..."

• "Those aren't really "affordable units"....

• "Where will they park? Walk 1000 feet? OMG! The 1,000 foot walk inconvenience exposed these morons as elitist scum that whose lives revolve around the auto! What's 1,000 ft from the ark tower? Newark Public Library. St Michael's Hospital. McGovern's Bar, the new Prudential Building and swahili's restaurant across from njpac. The idea of walking a block to a parking lot offended James Street people as if you asked for jelly instead of "Grey Poupon"!

*The complaints of gentrification were complete joke given every single James Street person was an old elitist White Collar professionals. Some even architects. Not one person speaking from James Street was blue collar.

• One lady went unhinged & started the whole Black & brown (apparently the left has married Hispanics to blacks & we are now a last name to "black". 'Blacks & brown this" " Black &Brown that") ..will suffee if Arc got approved. *I didn't know so many Jewish residents live in the James Street area, you would think they were the ones opposing, but most were in favor.
• you had this one white clown from Union Street, nowhere near Ark. He look like a burnout LOL, and he opposed the project based on parking. Because obviously he to relies on his automobile and has never heard of mass transit. In the end, it was a win for ark tower & the city.

Developers have to lobby lending institutions. They're the ones who set the rules on what theyll lend & what rates of repayment. You need profit to repay the banks & have money to pay themselves & all parties involved. If the math doesn't work out & leads to break even or red, it ain't happening.

That's why it was infuriating when I read some commie Newark official tell Newark developers seeking to save the Riviera Hotel "We don't go by math & e economics alone. People need to live there". As if Newark is supposed to be a 24sq mi. Welfare hotel!

I don't want to see NYC from Downtown Newark. I want to see Newark, period. LOL😂

It means it all gets moved to New Brunswick eventually. The design literally sucks. They should restore the original Street grid and do away with the super block north of the hospital.....where the 50 year old "temporary" buildings stand

I can see the planning board and the city denying them the permit to build the ark Tower. I can see the owners selling the property to Edison Park fast to spite the city. Another micro Edison parking lot is what I see if those two buildings get demolished without the ark replacing it.

It's been valuable for decades but the scum developers are only interested in land banking. The proposed something they'll never build in Newark like a massive 60 story or super tall skyscraper, knowing newark, a city desperate for such high profile developments, will approve it. The developer then sells the land for a higher value based on the value of what's been approved on it. In Edison's case, they're not interested in building anything or selling. Parking lots is their game. It is a safe money source and whenever something gets built, they insist on a new parking lot to compensate the one that was lost. Edison basically insists on land swaps. And I suspect that's what happened to the properties in the Ironbound they were recently demolished by Edison. Probably part of the compensation for the land that became Mulberry Commons park. It's just my guess but I wouldn't be surprised.

The buildings knocked down by Edison along New Street ,Central ave and the dozens knocked down by Rutgers and NJIT throughout the decades are in the James Street historic Zone. Landmark status for Warren Street School meant nothing . It meant nothing to them. Edison doesn't give a damn because it's a multi-millionaire company. They'll just pay the fines and move on. NJIT and Rutgers do whatever they want because their attitude is "Newark needs them".

You say you want more art deco and then you say you don't want it to be like Miami. You contradicted yourself because Miami has Art Deco and glass. In fact, Miami was the king of art deco. Now it is the southern king of both glass and art deco. So why can't Newark do the same?

"....Senator Cory Booker-A Newark resident,..."

I lost interest at that very lie.

Correct!!

It's going to feel nice to see a sky crane go up. Judging by The Shack Tower, it'll probably go up to half height at first and when the building catches up Midway, they get extended to the top off point. That crane will be seen from as far away as the turnpike and those Halo Towers will actually stand on their own apart from the main downtown cluster of buildings. Take 1&9 north on the the old rebuilt concrete Skyway over Oak Island Rail Yards to Delancey Street exit. You see that beautiful skyline of Newark. You noticed the Verizon building and the Halo site are actually a couple blocks separated south from the downtown buildings. It will look awesome.

I'm on skycrane watch. LOL🤗🤗🤗

Everything east of MLK blvd (High Street) & Elizabeth ave corridor will be gentrified. West of that line, I can't see gentrification in: *Lower Clinton Hill *Fairmount *West Side *Springfield Belmont *Woodside (Broadway from Cemetery to Belleville) but all bets are off if Newark- Paterson Light Rail takes place. All these neighborhoods are nowhere near Rail transportation. Broadway Woodside lost it when they closed the North Newark station on the Boonton line. Whether it's mass or light rail. Gentrification tends to follow rail and certain RowHouse patterns. Both are absent in these neighborhoods.

That someone is corporations that are buying the homes up to rent them. All over New York you see signs on telephone poles advertising "We'll buy your home"

I see it really It takes one....

😂🤣😂🤣LOL

They need to plant real trees and not these little Twigs held by opposing wire hooks on sticks. they're going to be vandalized and killed within weeks!

Second, no point in planting trees in front of vacant land about to get redeveloped.

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!

Yeah, except MLK/ High Street is a wide Road. If you're view perspective is good, you will quickly realize that road is too narrow to be MLK. The only part of MLK that narrow is in North Newark and that was mostly white Italian and Puerto Rican at the time with Columbus homes having replaced that entire neighborhood.

I think this was one of newark's north south numbered streets from 1st to 22nd Street.