The Redeveloper

Redevelopnment and land use news

Supreme Court Draws Line On Right To Notice

On May 19, 2010, the New Jersey Supreme Court in Iron Mountain Information Management, Inc. v. The City of Newark refused to expand to tenants, even those tenants with heightened property rights such as a right of first refusal, the right to notice that the Local Redevelopment and Housing Law affords to certain property owners.   [...]

Powerhouse case for Redevelopment

In what continues to be a very good month for redevelopment, on May 17, 2010 the Appellate Division decided Powerhouse Arts District Neighborhood Association Redevelopment, et al v. City Council of the City of Jersey City and rejected the arguments of the plaintiff neighborhood association group challenging the City’s amendments to the redevelopment plan for a downtown [...]

Finally, Post Gallenthin Appellate Division Upholds Redevelopment Designation

On May 6, 2010 the Appellate Division in Suburban Jewelers, Inc et al v. City of South Plainfield  upheld the City Of Plainfield’s redevelopment designation of a portion of its central business district.   Of the over thirty cases that have reviewed, discussed or cited the Gallenthin case since Gallenthin was decided in the summer of [...]

Notice of Public Hearings, Get it Right or Pay the Price

Always a critical jurisdictional requirement in municipal land use applications, getting the public notice right in the redevelopment context has even greater importance.  Starting with the Gallenthin decision in the summer of 2007, New Jersey court’s have reviewed redevelopments designations with a keen eye toward protecting private property rights impacted by the designation.   In addition, in [...]

Redevelopment, The Pendulem Continues to Swing Towards Private Property Rights

In the summer of 2007 we predicted that the New Jersey Supreme Court decision, Gallenthin Realty Development Inc. v. Borough of Paulsboro, marked the swinging of the pendulum against the use of eminent domain in the redevelopment context in New Jersey.   Unfortunately for those believing in the merits on which the redevelopment law was founded, [...]