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How Pressure Mounted for Development in Hoboken
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How Pressure Mounted for Development in Hoboken
By PATRICK McGEEHAN and CHARLES V. BAGLI
January 29, 2014
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/30/nyregion/
powerful-allies-pushed-a-project-in-new-jersey.html
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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http://tinyurl.com/pshhy8c
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The Christie administration has denied ever linking the Rockefeller
project to hurricane relief, an accusation that is now under federal
investigation.
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But whatever the outcome of the inquiries, the emails and interviews make
clear that the development-wary mayor was coming under increasing and
repeated pressure from politically connected lawyers working for
Rockefeller Group and from the Christie administration.
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The company had laid out about $100 million to buy up property in a
forsaken section of town littered with bus lots and long-dormant
factories, property that was zoned for low-slung industrial buildings but
blessed with a stunning view of Manhattan. Though the plans have never
been made public, in discussions with local officials they described a
project that would dwarf anything that Hoboken had ever seen.
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Following a well-worn playbook, they hired lawyers and lobbyists with
connections to the leadership of both parties. State officials, beginning
with the administration of Gov. Jon S. Corzine, a Democrat, have come
through for the company with money and support. Just last June, the states
mass transit agency reached a nonbinding agreement with the company for
the construction of a light rail station near its property.
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Rockefeller Group had every reason to expect that local officials would
come through, too. For years, Hoboken was known as development-friendly, a
financially stressed city happy to move beyond the old image of a
dockworkers ghetto immortalized by Elia Kazan in On the Waterfront.
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But Hoboken took a sharp turn when it elected Ms. Zimmer mayor in 2009.
She had entered local politics primarily because she thought Hoboken
needed more parks. She joined the City Council during the second term of
David Roberts, who as mayor welcomed development and encouraged the
construction of the 25-story W Hotel that is still Hobokens tallest
building.
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After granting several interviews last week, Ms. Zimmer stopped speaking
publicly about the issue, saying federal investigators had asked her not
to. On Wednesday, a spokesman for Mr. Christie provided the dates of five
meetings Ms. Zimmer had with state officials over the past year in which
they discussed how the state could help Hoboken recover from the
hurricane. The spokesman, Colin Reed, also noted that the mayor had asked
Rockefeller engineers to come up with ideas to protect the city from major
storms, and in her January 2013 State of the City speech, she thanked them
for doing so.
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The Christie administration also has questioned the timing of her
accusations, which came eight months after the Guadagno meeting, and just
days after evidence surfaced that the governors aides had created a huge
traffic jam in Fort Lee to punish its mayor. That episode, too, is under
federal investigation.
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