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Hoboken begins construction on Southwest popup park
Park set to open this summer
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Mayor Ravi Bhalla, elected officials, and residents celebrated the acquisition of an acre of land at Block 10 for the expansion of the city’s Southwest Resiliency Park and launched construction for the new pop-up park.
Last month, the city announced an agreement to acquire Block 10 from Academy Bus for $11 million.
Now, Block 10 – bounded by Marshall Street to the west, New York Avenue to the south, Harrison Street to the east, and buildings to the north- will become public, open space and double the size of the adjacent Southwest Resiliency Park.
HOBOKEN More than eight years after Superstorm Sandy pushed the Hudson River over its banks and left Hoboken residents without power or water for days, the Mile Square City officially kicked off a large-scale flood prevention project Thursday that it hopes will be a national model for combating the effects of climate change.
The $230 million project received approval in 2017 for funding by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development as part of its Rebuild By Design competition. The city spent three years reviewing alternatives before submitting its bid, which features bulkheads and flood walls, green infrastructure to absorb storm water, catch basins to hold it and improvements to the city s sewer system to effectively discharge it.