In a ceremony that was alternately bittersweet, comic, and even a touch sublime, New Jersey’s outgoing governor joined a Newark high school choir, the city’s mayor, and a veteran real estate developer to break ground on a 396-unit residential project with 80 apartments set aside for people with low and very low incomes.
The event was a ceremonial kickoff for 22 Fulton, a $198 million project named for its location on a short street between the Passaic River to the east and Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson Boulevard — still widely known as Broad Street — to the west, in a section of the city that has steadily sprouted new buildings for more than a decade.
“This says an incredible amount about Newark’s momentum,” Gov. Phil Murphy told a crowd of more than 200 public officials, developers, financiers and teenage singers…