Development

NEWARK, NJ — Newark’s Ballantine Brewery Complex in the Ironbound may have closed down in 1972, but part of the site could find new life again after the city planning board on Monday approved a new mixed-use project on Freeman Street which would bring 200-plus residential units to the area. 

The project will be dubbed “The Ballantine” and consists of three ...

NEWARK, NJ — The Newark Zoning Board on Thursday ruled that a challenge on an application calling for the construction of an industrial facility in the Ironbound was timely in its appeal, which local environmental activists are claiming as a small victory in an ongoing battle with the applicant. 

The ruling comes after a group of community activists, Ironbound Community Corporation, ...

NEWARK, NJ — The Newark Zoning Board on Thursday turned down an applicant’s proposal to expand a shuttered liquor store on Washington Street that was met with opposition from many residents and a city council member. 

JIA Estate LLC sought a variance to expand an existing non-conforming liquor store at 441-443 Washington St. to include additional storage and modernization ...

NEWARK, NJ — Charlene Spann was moved to tears standing outside her new home on South 10th Street that she and her family will have all to themselves after years of renting, an opportunity made possible through Invest Newark’s Section 8 Homeownership Conversion Program.  

“It’s all theirs. It belongs to them,” Spann said on Tuesday during a ribbon ...

NEWARK, NJ – Plans to turn the former Newark Bears and Eagles Riverfront Stadium site into a thriving hub for residential, retail and small business spaces are beginning to make headway under its new developer. 

Just one month after the Newark City Council amended a redevelopment agreement for May Newark LLC, an affiliate of Accurate Builders and Developers, to ...

Newark, NJ - PSE&G has announced that over the next two weeks work crews will be replacing gas mains on:

South 17th Street (between Springfield Avenue and Avon Avenue)
South 16th Street (between 18th Avenue and Springfield Avenue)
South 15th Street (between 18th Avenue and Springfield Avenue)
South 14th Street (between 18th Avenue and Springfield Avenue)
South 13th (between 18th ...