HOBOKEN – The city has drafted a plan to preserve and rehabilitate the Neumann Leathers Industrial complex to create a hub for the city’s arts community. The plan will be introduced for first reading at the Nov. 4 City Council meeting.
The plan for the old leather factor, located at Newark Street and Willow Avenue, includes new retail spaces and affordable housing, public open spaces, a reduction in localized flooding, and extension of the street grid at Grand Street.
“Just a few years ago, this historic property faced the threat of demolition and the artist community within it lived in fear of an uncertain future,” said Mayor Dawn Zimmer in a press release. “This plan would restore an important part of our industrial past, protect the artists and industrial uses that enrich our community, and create a vibrant mixed-use block with street level retail and plazas activated by artists and musicians.”
Residents can access the plan at www.hobokennj.org/docs/communitydev/Neumann-Leathers-Redevelopment-Plan-Draft-10-15-15.pdf,
The draft incorporates the historic buildings at the site and will shape its design around the factory’s smoke stack, cobbled drives, exposed steel, oversized doorways and loading portals.
The city says tenants need not worry as the rent levels will be maintained.
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