Hoboken Community Meeting - Development Of 16th Street Parks

Hoboken Community Meeting - Development of 16th Street Parks

Hoboken is hosting the first public meeting to discuss the design of recreational park space located along Willow Avenue and Park Avenue at 16th Street. The meeting will take place at the Wallace School gymnasium, 1100 Willow Avenue, January 10th from 7:00 - 9:00p.m. and is open to the public. Be there!

The goal is to start construction in Spring of 2011 and the city hopes to have the project finished by the Fall. While the site has undergone remediation, they are waiting for approvals from an environmental agency that the work is satisfactory. 

This project will work alongside two other sites, the Hoboken Cove, east of Park Avenue and north headed towards Weehawken, and as well as space known as the Weehawken cove. Their goal, in a release from the city today, states that the goal is to have the spaces be cohesive, and will include a kayak and boat launch.

This along with the recent announcement of the rebuilding of the 14th Street viaduct slated to being in March of 2011, these are wonderful, and much needed improvements to rebuild a section of Hoboken/Weehawken left forgotten and neglected. 

I'm happy to report this post, because it could have easily have gone to more building and development residential projects. The residents and all that come to visit will enjoy, instead, open green space which the residents so much wanted. 

What type of park space would you like to see included in the plans?