East Ward Councilman AUGUSTO AMADOR MARKET DEMAND – NEWARK EAST WARD
“ The City of Newark is one of the most underserved market rate residential housing markets in the Northeast, and arguably the country, when taking into account demographics, infrastructure , accessibility, business environment and proximity to New York City.”
Jones Lang La Salle January 12, 2012
East Ward Councilman AUGUSTO AMADOR THE IRONBOUND – NEWARK EAST WARD
The Ironbound is a neighborhood in the city of Newark in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. It is a large working-class, close-knit, multi-ethnic community & suburb, covering approximately 4 square miles (10 km2) of well maintained streets and homes. Historically, the area was called "Dutch Neck," "Down Neck," or simply "the Neck," due to the appearance of the curve of the Passaic River. The Ironbound is part of Newark's East Ward and is directly east of Newark Penn Station and Downtown Newark, and south and west of the river, over which passes the Jackson Street Bridge, connecting to Harrison and Kearny.
East Ward Councilman AUGUSTO AMADOR HISTORY - NEWARK EAST WARD
The name "The Ironbound" is said to derive from the large metalworking industry "The men, after eating a hasty supper in a dirty, crowded home or boarding in the area or from the network of railroad tracks that surrounded the house," a social worker noted, "quite naturally leave such unattractive neighborhood. Balbach Smelting & Refining Company, now the location of surroundings to spend the evenings playing cards and drinking in a warm, well Riverbank Park, was the second largest metal processing enterprise in the United lighted saloon.“ The first Portuguese immigrants arrived in the 1910s. By 1921 States until its closure in the 1920s. there was a large enough Portuguese population to found Sport Club Portuguese, The Ironbound was an industrial neighborhood in the 19th and early 20th the first of over twenty Portuguese social clubs that would call the Ironbound centuries. Workers at Benjamin Moore paints, Ballantine Beer, the Murphy home. Many houses and apartments in the Ironbound are embellished with Varnish Company and Conmar Zippers lived next to railroad and port workers. The elaborate azulejos. One common image is Our Lady of Fatima, seen here. Galician neighborhood was also home to Hensler's Beer Brewery and Pride of Newark & Jewish immigrants also settled in the Ironbound. In the 1930s Spanish ("P.O.N.") beer by the Feigenspan Brewery. The Ironbound was poorer than was Catholics built elaborate catacombs underneath the Church of the Immaculate the rest of Newark at that time. A legacy of that 19th century poverty can be seen Heart of Mary. In the catacombs are placed lifelike wax effigies of saints and in the neighborhood's architecture - there are very few brownstones or even brick- martyrs, as there are no burials there. The walls, ceilings and floors of the faced buildings in the district. The inhabitants were considered to be in such need catacombs are decorated with mosaics and murals. The church above the of help that Protestant reformers established the Bethel Mission there in 1850. catacombs was built in the 1850s for a German Baptist congregation, an example As it does today, the Ironbound had inhabitants of many ethnic groups in the 19th of ethnic succession. In 1983, dangerous levels of dioxin were discovered at an century, with Germans, Lithuanians, Italians and Poles being prominent. abandoned chemical factory in the Ironbound. The Diamond Alkali Company was Lithuanians built the Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in 1894 and Trinity Church in largely responsible for this pollution through their heavy production of Agent 1902. St. Casimir's Church was founded under Polish auspices in 1908. As an Orange between 1951 and 1969. The off-site cleanup was completed by 1986, example of the size of the German community in the Ironbound, prior to World and in 1989 the site received a permanent impermeable cap. War I, Wilson Avenue was called Hamburg Place. Saloons were major meeting places for Ironbound workers in the era before radio and television. A 1912 survey found 122 saloons in the neighborhood.
East Ward Councilman AUGUSTO AMADOR IRONBOUND DEMOGRAPHICS
. Speak Portuguese 14%, speak English 54%, speak Spanish 32% . Total Population is around 45,000 . $50,600 is the average household income. . $263,600 is the median home value. . 97% of its population is employed. . There is an excellent mix of service and professional workers. . It’s a youthful, family-oriented community.
East Ward Councilman AUGUSTO AMADOR IRONBOUND DEVELOPMENT
NEW PROJECTS
East Ward Councilman AUGUSTO AMADOR IRONBOUND DEVELOPMENT
. ST. JAMES HOSPITAL
Location: 154 Jefferson St. Project by: Project by: Summit Assets
East Ward Councilman AUGUSTO AMADOR IRONBOUND DEVELOPMENT
. 453-457 MULBERRY ST.
Location: 453-457 Mulberry St.
Project by: Lilac Development Group LLC – Manny Rosa
EL PASTOR - Market Street Apartments This project will create 60 residential units Project by Cerqueira Bros. / MarketPolk LLC East Ward Councilman AUGUSTO AMADOR IRONBOUND DEVELOPMENT
. 459-461 MULBERRY ST.
Location: 459-461 Mulberry St.
Project by: Joe Nobre
East Ward Councilman AUGUSTO AMADOR IRONBOUND DEVELOPMENT
. BALLANTINE BREWERY
Location: 424 Ferry St.
Project by: Turnbridge Equities
East Ward Councilman AUGUSTO AMADOR IRONBOUND DEVELOPMENT . DUKE REALTY
Location: Delancy St.
Project by: Duke Realty
East Ward Councilman AUGUSTO AMADOR IRONBOUND DEVELOPMENT
. PESTANA HOTEL
Location: at the corner of Lafayette St. /Monroe St.
Project by: Pestana Group PESTANA HOTEL Located at the corner of Lafayette St. /Monroe St. 106 rooms boutique hotel. It project will create 25 Jobs. Project by Seabra Group
East Ward Councilman AUGUSTO AMADOR IRONBOUND DEVELOPMENT
. BEACON DEVELOPMENT – 124 ADAMS ST.
Location: 124 Adams St.
Project by: Carlos Couto PESTANA HOTEL Located at the corner of Lafayette St. /Monroe St. 106 rooms boutique hotel. It project will create 25 Jobs. Project by Seabra Group
East Ward Councilman AUGUSTO AMADOR IRONBOUND DEVELOPMENT
. 60 ELM ST.
Location: 60 Elm Street
Project by: Anthony Gomes
PESTANA HOTEL Located at the corner of Lafayette St. /Monroe St. 106 rooms boutique hotel. It project will create 25 Jobs. Project by Seabra Group
East Ward Councilman AUGUSTO AMADOR IRONBOUND PROJECTS . 330 JEFFERSON STREET
Location: 330 Jefferson St.
Project by: Lachemont Properties
East Ward Councilman AUGUSTO AMADOR IRONBOUND PROJECTS
. VESEY ST. COMMONS
Location: 115 Chestnut Street, a lot located at the corner of Hermon Street that stretches back to Vesey Street
Project by: Chestnut Global Enterprises
East Ward Councilman AUGUSTO AMADOR IRONBOUND PROJECTS
. 400 APARTMENTS BY PENN STATTION
Location: at the site of a parking lot at 28-50 McWhorter Street, 51-57 Union Street, and 108 Hamilton Street.
Project by: Pepe Lopez
East Ward Councilman AUGUSTO AMADOR IRONBOUND PROJECTS
. MCWHORTER ST./ BRUEN ST.
Location: 59-65 McWhorter Street and 50-56 Bruen Street
Project by: 59-65 McWhorter Holdings, LLC
East Ward Councilman AUGUSTO AMADOR IRONBOUND DEVELOPMENT
. EAST KINNEY SENIOR PROJECT
Location: E. Kinney St.
Project by: Seabra Family
East Ward Councilman AUGUSTO AMADOR IRONBOUND DEVELOPMENT
. FERRY ST./ FLEMING AVE. PROJECT
Location: at corner of Ferry St. /Fleming Ave/ Lister Ave.
Project by: Luis Nogueira
East Ward Councilman AUGUSTO AMADOR IRONBOUND DEVELOPMENT
. 357 WILSON AVE. PROJECT
Location: 357 Wilson Ave.
Project by: Liberty Property Trust
East Ward Councilman AUGUSTO AMADOR IRONBOUND DEVELOPMENT
. POLK ST. MARKET RATE PROJECT
Location: Polk St./ Clover St.
Project by: Jerry Delvecchio
East Ward Councilman AUGUSTO AMADOR IRONBOUND DEVELOPMENT
. 52 UNITS OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING AT THOMAS ST./HERMON ST.
Description: Location: 186 Thomas St.
Project by: Cerqueira Bros. & Location:
Concrete System Project by: Liberty Property Trust
East Ward Councilman AUGUSTO AMADOR IRONBOUND DEVELOPMENT
COMPLETED PROJECTS
East Ward Councilman AUGUSTO AMADOR IRONBOUND PROJECTS
. KOMAIN INDUSTRIES - MAIN STREET PROJECT
Description: Location: 100 Main St.
Project by: Cerqueira Bros Location: 100 Main St.
& Concrete Systems Project by:
East Ward Councilman AUGUSTO AMADOR IRONBOUND PROJECTS
. 451 MULBERRY STREET
Location: 451 Mulberry St. Description:
Project by: Luis Nogueira Location: 451 Mulberry St.
Project by:
East Ward Councilman AUGUSTO AMADOR IRONBOUND PROJECTS
. OCEAN SEAFOOD
Location: 331 Adams St/ Malvern St.
Project by: Luis Janota
East Ward Councilman AUGUSTO AMADOR IRONBOUND PROJECTS
. IRONBOUND LOFTS
Location: 135 Monroe St. (aka 274 Lafayette St.)
Project by: Seabra Group
East Ward Councilman AUGUSTO AMADOR IRONBOUND PROJECTS
. MURPHY VARNISH LOFTS
Location:127 Chestnut Street, on the corner of McWhorter Street
Project by: Javier Meleiro
East Ward Councilman AUGUSTO AMADOR IRONBOUND PROJECTS
. 325 FERRY ST. PROJECT
Location: Ferry St./Magazine St.
Project by: T. Gary & J. Gordon Gutjahr
East Ward Councilman AUGUSTO AMADOR IRONBOUND DEVELOPMENT
INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS
East Ward Councilman AUGUSTO AMADOR IRONBOUND PROJECTS
. REPLACEMENT OF LEAD PIPES
20% COMPLETED
Project by: City of Newark
East Ward Councilman AUGUSTO AMADOR IRONBOUND PROJECTS
. EDDIE MORAES STADIUM
Location: St. Charles St.
Project by: City of Newark
East Ward Councilman AUGUSTO AMADOR IRONBOUND PROJECTS
. IRONBOUND ICE RINK
Location: 226 Rome St.
Project by: City of Newark
East Ward Councilman AUGUSTO AMADOR IRONBOUND PROJECTS
. SOUTH STREET FLOODS
Project by: City of Newark
East Ward Councilman AUGUSTO AMADOR IRONBOUND PROJECTS
. RIVERFRONT PARK – FASE II
Location: Jackson St. to Prospect St.
Project by: City of Newark
East Ward Councilman AUGUSTO AMADOR THE GROWING IRONBOUND Presentation Monday – January 6, 2020 – 6:00pm Spanish Tavern 103 JMcWhorter St. – Newark - NJ 07105