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Elizabeth HOPE VI
Elizabethport, New Jersey The Elizabethport HOPE VI Revitalization Program transformed an old, historically significant, urban neighborhood. Jonathan Rose Companies LLC, in collaboration with Stockard & Engler & Brigham, a Massachusetts-based consulting firm, worked closely with the Housing Authority of the City of Elizabeth as program managers to establish the vision, design the program, and implement the plan. The project includes six critical components, which are applicable to other urban redevelopment projects: Mixed-Income Neighborhood: Rather than redevelop the area’s single public housing site, the program included the acquisition and redevelopment of various scattered sites in order to mend the economically and urbanistically fractured neighborhood. Brownfield Redevelopment: We assisted in assessing and creating feasible strategies for redeveloping the blighted Singer manufacturing plant and other former industrial sites. Mixed-Finance Development: Our firm provided the oversight and technical assistance with organizational and financing strategies for the overall development, and created and monitored project schedules and budgets. Public / Private Partnership. Our firm has been critical to the negotiation and management of the master development agreements between the public housing authority and private developers procured to develop and implement the revitalization program. We have also assisted in the formation and negotiation of agreements between the city and developers in undertaking public right-of-way and infrastructure improvements. Participatory Process. The plan called for an anti-displacement strategy in which existing residents could participate in the redevelopment process and play a role in the neighborhood’s future. Design and planning workshops, regular community meetings, and small leadership focus groups have created ongoing opportunities to meaningfully involved residents and other interested parties. Neighborhood Design. The obsolete port, with its valuable waterfront and views of Manhattan, is being revitalized by cleaning blighted sites, and by creating family-friendly civic spaces that include parks and pedestrian walk-ways. New housing units throughout the neighborhood and improvements along neighborhood-commercial corridors are reconnecting people to the waterfront. - - - - Home \| Who We Are \| Projects \| News \| Resources © 2001 - 2007 Jonathan Rose Companies LLC Email us \| Contact Information		Firm Role Program Management Project Description Redevelopment of a historically significant urban neighborhood. Construction Type New Construction Architect Kitchen & Associates Barton Partners John Inglese Architects Development Profile 577 Residential Units Total Development Costs $120 million Financing Sources HACE HOPE VI NJ Balanced Housing NJ UEZ City Elizabeth HOME County of Union HOME FHLB LIHTC Status Completed in 2004