Next Stop: A Commuter Village

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Next Stop: A Commuter Village

TWO contentious plans for the Meadowlands area are already on the radar screen: Xanadu, the giant retail and entertainment complex going up in East Rutherford; and EnCap, a now-canceled project that was to clean up several large former landfills in marshy sections of Rutherford and Lyndhurst and turn them into residential sites and golf courses.

 

Now comes the Secaucus meadowlands’ turn at transformation — this one perhaps less fraught. Within several weeks, the first 300 units of Xchange at Secaucus Junction, a 2,000-unit rental housing “village” planned for 60 acres beside the regional train transfer station here, will be put on the market.

 

Developers are creating a “mini-Central Park” as part of the complex, in addition to a river walk (already partly built), a boat launching area and an array of amenities that the builder, Fraternity Meadows, says will rival those of Manhattan apartments while costing roughly half as much.

 

Full story: - May 19, 2008

[metsfan 2]

Cool, more open land developed in combination with a make-your-children-cry mall (xanadu) which will cause gas prices to rise and train crowdedness even more of an issue while at the same time causing blight!!! I love what money can do in this country... NOT! :mad:

 

- Andy