Why NJPAC's next big act is still a parking lot

October 19, 2015

James Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School for Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, said the financing snags were unsurprising, given the burst in the housing bubble at the time.

“Credit disappeared,” he noted. “Probably it was a good thing they didn’t go forward. It would have been a ‘zombie’ building.”

NJ.com, October 18

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