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Commissioners are anticipated to authorize $120 million in bonds for the government complex April 22. UNION COUNTY, NJ — The county Board of Commissioners will provide $16.75 million to the Union County Improvement Authority to plan and design a new county government complex in Elizabeth. The county is still in negotiations to select a developer for the project. The two buildings are planned for the site of the county’s motor vehicle services division at 61-99 West Grand St. County official...

Station to station Murphy’s electric vehicle initiative is the right goal, but getting there might be harder than anticipated By: Alan P. Hilla Jr and Ryan Conklin April 5, 2021 12:01 am Gov. Phil Murphy and the state Legislature should be applauded for their efforts in facilitating the mass adoption of electric vehicles. According to NJ Clean Energy, non-electric automobiles, mass transit and utility vehicles account for 46% of the State’s net greenhouse gas emis...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The New Jersey Economic Recovery Act of 2020 (ERA), a seven-year, $14 billion package of incentive programs intended to encourage New Jersey job growth, property development and redevelopment, community partnerships, and numerous other economic development initiatives, was signed into law by Governor Phil Murphy on January 7, 2021. This Client Alert focuses on the New Jersey Aspire Program, enacted as part of the ERA to provide tax cr...

Credit: Amanda Brown R. William Potter On Jan. 14, 2021, Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver, in her day job as commissioner of the Department of Community Affairs (DCA), sent a one-page letter to the mayor of Franklin Township in Warren County, rejecting his ill-conceived designation of 100-plus acres of prime farmland — continuously tilled for nearly a century — as “blighted.” Every mayor and municipal governing body should read this letter before initiating the formal process for declaring privat...