Hoboken Bought For 30 Pieces of Gold, Swimming Pool

Hoboken will be getting a swimming pool care of developer Tarragon URSA in an attempt to bribe the city into letting it redevelop vacant, contaminated industrial sites.

The West Side of Hoboken along the newly laid Hudson Light Rail is prime real estate for new development. Mostly old industrial buildings, we have to wonder why there is so much opposition to a plan to clean up otherwise vacant, low tax paying land.

"many in the activist community say that Hoboken is short on open space...
...They added that the area might become overloaded with high density, high-rise residential housing."

Hoboken is still a city, and with the ever growing price of housing, new development is the best and only way to relieve high rents. Open space and parks might be lovely, but the only people who can live there will be the homeless folks who can't afford double digit rent hikes.

Besides, has everyone forgotten that Hoboken is nearly broke? Turning a contaminated industrial site into a park costs a lot of money, and parks don't pay taxes. And finally, there are still lots of places in this state better suited for open space preservation.