PJP Landfill, To Become a Giant Warehouse
The name of the warehouse? AMB Pulaski Distribution Center. The developer? AMB Property Corporation.
According to the news that I’ve read, PJP Landfill was a garbage dump before, which has been closed for the past 35 years. No wonder it looks like a forbidden forest whenever I drive to 440 or whenever I refuel my car from Ultra-Truck Stop (see letter A on the above photo), one of the cheapest gas stations in Jersey City where I frequent to.
According to the press release of AMB Property Corporation, it has acquired approximately 50 acres of land in JC from Roman Catholic Archidiocese of Newark after two years of negotiations.
…AMB plans to develop an 878,000 square foot, cross-docked facility on the site, AMB Pulaski Distribution Center, to serve the nearby Port of New York and New Jersey, and to apply LEED(TM) Silver Certification standards to its design, construction and operation…
Read the entire press release here.
Photo from http://photos.orr.noaa.gov/gallery_1/cprd1-11.htm
It is captioned: “PJP Landfill, Jersey City, NJ 4/4/90 View of the Hackensack River looking downstream from the landfill.”
Oh, in case you are wondering, the letter B on the top-most photo is the site where the missing Rabbi Zev Segal was found dead.
AMB Pulaski Distribution Center
Location : Former JC Dumpsite – PJP Landfill, under Pulaski skyway
Contact : Margan Mitchell, VP Corporate Communications, mmitchell@amb.com, or Rachel Bennett, Director, Media and Public Relations, rbennett@amb.com (both of AMB Property Corporation)
Website : www.amb.com
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