Port Imperial
Mixed-use Development
West New York and Weehawken, New Jersey
At Port Imperial North in West New York, Paulus, Sokolowski and Sartor (PS&S) provided master plan civil engineering, landscape architecture, and environmental permitting services. The site at the base of the palisades consists of 158 acres, 90 of which are uplands. The mixed-use development consists of approximately 4,000 residential units (townhouses, rental and for-sale apartments) and 100,000 sf of commercial space. Also included are approximately 5,000 linear feet of Hudson River Waterfront Walkway, with an additional five acres of public parks. Community facilities include a police and fire substation and a soccer field.
At Port Imperial South in Weehawken, PS&S also provided master plan civil engineering, landscape, and environmental services. Port Imperial South encompasses approximately 90 upland acres. It is a mix of residential and commercial uses, with approximately 1,700 housing units, a hotel and 1.3 million sf of office space on the waterfront. An additional 5,000 linear feet of the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway, running the length of the project site and a public park, is to be completed in 2007. A new NJ Transit Light Rail station stop is located at the north end of the project, where a new New York Waterway Ferry Terminal site started operations in 2006.
Development of this parcel is an encouraged activity under New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's (DEP) Rules on Coastal Zone Management as it is redevelopment of a brownfields site. A Remedial Action Workplan, engineered by PS&S, calls for the capping of the site and the establishment of Deed Notices. The capping plan includes the use of impervious surfaces that are related to the development, such as building slabs, roadways and parking areas and, in landscaped areas, a filter fabric layer covered with 18 inches of clean fill. An impervious cap was required in some areas.
Road, utility, stormwater management and sanitary pump station designs were required for each of these projects.