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In the Region | New Jersey: A Makeover Plan, Up Close

THE FUTURE Harmony Square will restore a building on Broad Street. UNDER a plastic party tent set up on a muddy corner lot at Broad Street and Third Avenue one recent rainy day, Mayor Cory A. Booker stepped on the ceremonial groundbreaking shovel and ...

From ANTOINETTE MARTIN, The New York Times,  6 Nov 2009

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In the Region | New Jersey: Reclaiming Contaminated Sites

IT takes a strong stomach for a developer to pursue brownfield redevelopment: building condominiums on a former oil storage site, housing where an aluminum bat factory blew up, a store on the site of a chemical plant explosion, or a town center on a ...

From ANTOINETTE MARTIN, The New York Times,  30 Oct 2009

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In the Region | New Jersey: Pitching to Professional Athletes

STEVE NEEDLE, a developer, thought a year ago that he had sold a $3 million castle-style mansion in Westfield even before his firm had finished construction. But the buyer, employed as a Wall Street stock trader at the time, lost his financial footing ...

From ANTOINETTE MARTIN, The New York Times,  16 Oct 2009

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In the Region | New Jersey: Making a Connection at Bell Labs

OPEN HOUSE A crowd in the atrium of the Bell Labs building in Holmdel. A developer has been seeking support to preserve the structure. LAST month, the historic Bell Labs building, once guarded night and day and a place that has sat completely empty ...

From ANTOINETTE MARTIN, The New York Times,  9 Oct 2009

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In the Region | New Jersey: Condo Amenities for Renters

ERICA BAUMWOLL, who began work as a teacher in New York City three years ago, spent the first year of her career living with two roommates in a cramped third-floor walk-up on the Upper East Side. Then she bolted to Hoboken. She still had two roommates, ...

From ANTOINETTE MARTIN, The New York Times,  2 Oct 2009

In the Region | New Jersey: In Jersey City, Jump-Starting Condo Sales

Some of the 76 units in the Saffron condo complex in Jersey City will be auctioned next month, before the grand opening in December. GOING once, going twice, sold, to the buyer with her hand up five weeks before the building even opens! At the Saffron, ...

From ANTOINETTE MARTIN, The New York Times,  25 Sep 2009

In the Region | New Jersey: First Signs of Recovery

WHERE do signs of a housing market recovery show up first? In New Jersey, the answer is: in the northern part of the state, in relatively affluent towns, especially those with train stations. LISTED Homes for sale in Glen Ridge, above, and Cranford. ...

From ANTOINETTE MARTIN, The New York Times,  18 Sep 2009

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In the Region | New Jersey: Wanted: ‘Keeper of the Flame’

BARGAINS abound these days in the market for New Jersey’s most unusual, lavish and historic homes. THE UNUSUAL A Ridgewood home featuring stained-glass windows, below, by G. Owen Bonawit was reduced to about $1 million. Michael Strahans Montclair ...

From ANTOINETTE MARTIN, The New York Times,  11 Sep 2009

In the Region | New Jersey: Savvy Buyers Seek the Shore

SIGNS OF LIFE The Dolans, in Avon-by-the-Sea, are among the buyers taking advantage of reduced prices in shoreline areas. We were able to get a nice price on a house close to the water, said Mary Jane Dolan, because we were able to wait until we could. ...

From ANTOINETTE MARTIN, The New York Times,  28 Aug 2009

In the Region | New Jersey: The Saving Grace: Loan Deals

JAMIE ADAMSKI is a physician, and his partner, Joseph Wowk, has a stable job in merchandizing in Manhattan, but there was no way that they could have come up with enough cash for a 20 percent down payment on a nice condominium across the river in ...

From ANTOINETTE MARTIN, The New York Times,  21 Aug 2009

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