Rockland Boulders stadium project leads to securities fraud indictments
Back in mid-2011, I wrote about the arrival of the Rockland Boulders onto the minor league baseball scene in the region. The site, not far off the Palisades Parkway, is convenient for Rockland as well...
View ArticleNorth Jersey casino referendum highlights from St. Peter’s forum
Here are some further comments from the North Jersey casino referendum forum that I attended Monday night at St. Peter’s University in Jersey City – starting with Atlantic City Mayor Don Guardian, who...
View ArticleMargaret Schak, 94, of Rutherford was EnCap watchdog
In the early days of the ill-fated Meadowlands EnCap golf and housing project – which came in with a whimper in 1999 and went out with a bang in 2007-08 when even current Presidential candidate Donald...
View Articlebreaking: NJSEA votes to start eminent domain process for Keegan Landfill in...
Nothing says St. Patrick’s Day like a Brennan writing about a Keegan – John Brennan and Keegan landfill, that is. Here was my story in The Record today on Kearny’s sentiments about being host to the...
View ArticleDonald Trump and New Jersey, perfect together
It was 2007, and I got a call from a source of mine asking me, “If you could ask for anyone in the world – anyone at all – to take over the Meadowlands EnCap project, who would you pick?” Before I...
View ArticleMeadowlands research lab to be operated by Rutgers-Newark
Most local Meadowlands Matters material tends toward the “blacktop and parking lot” part of the region, but there’s an environmental side, too. Colleagues Linda Moss and Scott Fallon have that angle...
View ArticleMeadowlands EnCap site gets new Russo/Forsgate development plan
The 700-acre Meadowlands EnCap site was once supposed to be the home of a Donald Trump-designed golf course and thousands of residential units in North Arlington, Rutherford, and especially Lyndhurst....
View ArticleNew book explores history of The Meadowlands
Much has been written about the fascinating geography and history of the Meadowlands region of North Jersey, whether dating back centuries or to the early days of development in the late 1960s. But the...
View ArticleMeadowlands EnCap saga: It ain’t over ’til it’s over
Ok, so the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority board has given the agency’s staff the green light to start negotiations on a $42.5M land sale for the former EnCap site in Lyndhurst, North...
View ArticleMeadowlands EnCap site developer chosen by NJSEA: Russo and Forsgate
The New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority board on Thursday agreed to have agency President Wayne Hasenbalg and his staff begin negotiations with a joint venture of Russo Development of Carlstadt...
View ArticleMeadowlands Matters nabs another blog award – but guess who else should take...
Thanks to the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists this week for naming Meadowlands Matters as the state’s Best Media-Affiliated Blog for 2014. I’ve always said, if you’re in this business...
View ArticleMeadowlands EnCap is dead, but its legacy lives on for Lyndhurst taxpayers
It’s been about six years since I concluded the vast majority of my coverage with colleague Jeff Pillets of the Meadowlands EnCap golf and housing project, with Pillets laying out the framework of the...
View ArticleAnother payment alleged for Ferriero
Here is the updated version about new developments Friday in the Joseph Ferriero racketeering trial, by colleague Peter Sampson: “A federal prosecutor on Friday alleged that Joseph A. Ferriero, the...
View Article“Sports and Exposition Authority, let me introduce you to Meadowlands...
Some final thoughts on last week’s historic New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority board meeting, the first held at the now-pretty-much-defunct state Meadowlands Commission offices in Lyndhurst: -...
View ArticleIzod Center to close March 22; NJSEA moving its meetings out of Meadowlands...
The New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority has pulled listings for the Young Voices and Richard Nader’s Doo Wop concerts from their websites; those acts are expected to be moved from the Izod...
View ArticleFerriero wants case against him dismissed; Menendez role in obtaining Xanadu...
FEB. 6 UPDATe on bottom with Ferriero response to that. FEB. 5 UPDATE on bottom with Fishman response to Ferriero effort to have him disqualified even if the case is not dismissed entirely. FEB. 4...
View ArticleMeadowlands enviro institute fate latest twist in Liberty State Park bill
Guest post from colleague Scott Fallon on a Meadowlands Matter: “Legislation that has already prompted concerns about the future of Liberty State Park would turn a state environmental agency into a...
View ArticleNJSEA to subsume Meadowlands Commission under bill sent to Gov Christie
Interesting story today by my colleague, Dustin Racioppi, on the future of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority and the Meadowlands Commission: “It took more than four hours of waiting and...
View ArticleFrom Trump at the Dump to warehouse hub: the saga of the infamous Meadowlands...
Guest post from colleague Linda Moss: “Several major North Jersey real estate companies have submitted bids to purchase the biggest parcel of developable land left in the Meadowlands, a 718-acre tract...
View ArticleEnCap saga – lots of investigations, but some key questions likely will never...
So it Ens – er, ends – not with a bang but a whimper. In mid-2011, the federal government touted quite a scheme that it claimed EnCap founder William Gauger had concocted: forcing a longtime friend to...
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