Full Notification

UPDATE: At the request of SJP Properties, the resolution to consider a waiver to the noise ordinance will be heard on Wednesday, May 15th rather than May 1st.

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Residents are advised that on Wednesday, May 1st, the City Council will consider a request by SJP Properties to do construction work on Saturdays at the Waterfront Corporate Center III, located at 225 River Street. The City’s noise control ordinance does not permit for construction to take place on Saturdays without a waiver from the approving board. Since the project is part of a Redevelopment Area, the City Council, as the Redevelopment Agency, has jurisdiction over granting or denying a waiver.

Previously, SJP’s contractor commenced work on Saturdays out of concern for meeting deadlines with their anchor tenant. After the City advised SJP that they could not work on Saturdays, the developer requested a waiver to conduct work on Saturdays, stating: “Saturday construction has become necessary to ensure the project meets the construction milestones required in the lease agreement with the anchor tenant, Pearson Education. The project is currently behind schedule to meet these milestones.”

The noise control ordinance requires that waiver requests be submitted along with a noise mitigation plan. The public hearing for the resolution to grant a waiver request will be an opportunity for the public to express their concerns and for the City Council to ask questions of the developer.

SJP is developing a 500,000 square foot office and retail building – the final site of Hoboken’s 26-acre waterfront, mixed use master plan neighborhood. Pearson, the world’s leading learning company, has signed a 200,000-square-foot lease at the property and will be the site’s anchor tenant. Pearson is scheduled to relocate approximately 900 employees from its current offices in Upper Saddle River and Old Tappan to Hoboken, and will occupy five floors of Waterfront Corporate Center III.

Chapter 133-9C of the City code states:

“All construction and demolition activity, excluding emergency work, shall not be performed between the hours of 6:00 p.m., and 8:00 a.m. on weekdays or at any time during weekends and federal holidays. Work crews may be on site between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. to do preparatory work, but no motorized equipment, including but not limited to pile drivers, jackhammers, riveters, stone breakers, cranes, earthmoving equipment, compressors, saws and cutting equipment, and any other such equipment that is plainly audible beyond the real property line, shall be operated before 8:00 a.m. Work may take place after hours and on weekends only with express authorization from the approving Board and only after a noise mitigation plan has been submitted to that Board. At all other times, the limits set forth in Tables I, II or III do not apply. All motorized equipment used in construction and demolition activity shall be operated with a muffler and/or sound reduction device.”