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HOBOKEN UPDATE FOR FEBRUARY 2019

NJDEP held a series of Design Zone workshops this month for Cove Park and the Washington Street/Alley Way. There was a high turnout of residents to discuss how the project should integrate deployable sliding gates, and a “resist” structure that can provide natural planting and shade, green lawns, shared seating and play areas for all

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THE RIGHT TO A RESILIENT CITY: PROGRESSIVE POLITICS AND GREEN GROWTH MACHINE IN NEW YORK CITY

We examine the post disaster history of a proposed resilience infrastructurecapital project, the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project part of a larger proposed resilience infra structure design called BTheBig U. This proposed ring of bermed parkland around the waterfront of Lower Manhattan won $335 million in the Housing andUrban Development Rebuild by Design competition. The

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NO BARRIERS TO BEAUTY

Rebuild by Design team hosts public workshop Hudson Reporter: Planters, seating, and signs that show the way are all possible features that could be included in a northern section of the Rebuild by Design project, which aims to protect the city from flooding. The project, a federal effort funded through a $230 million grant from

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PARK SPACE RE-IMAGINED

Hudson Reporter: Programming space, an elevated outlook, and native plantings are all possibilities for the redesign of Harborside Park as part of the city’s Rebuild By Design project. The project team announced three design concepts for Harborside Park at two public workshops last week, all of which provide play space for children, greenery, and views of

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EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP HAS APPLIED FOR A FEDERAL GRANT OF $2.4 MILLION TO TEAR DOWN FOUR EYESORE MOTELS

Press of Atlantic City: Egg Harbor Township has applied for a federal grant of $2.4 million to tear down four eyesore motels in West Atlantic City as a way to mitigate flooding on properties severely and repeatedly inundated with water. “We can’t build anything there once the motels are demolished,” said Business Administrator Peter Miller. “We

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