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Site of Failed Jersey City Pompidou Tapped for Affordable Housing

Site of Failed Jersey City Pompidou Tapped for Affordable Housing

Published by Jenni Sidey

After a years-long saga with countless twists and turns came to end last month, new reports signal that the site once prepared for the Centre Pompidou’s Jersey City museum has been eyed for affordable housing and community space. As reported by Gothamist (beneath a headline that begins “Au Revoir, Pompidou”), Jersey City Mayor James Solomon, shortly after taking office in January, “announced Monday that the city would work with Kushner Real Estate Group on new plans for the Artwalk Towers development at 808 Pavonia Ave. in Journal Square.” Related Articles That runs starkly counter to once-ambitious plans for a starry outpost of Paris’s Centre Pompidou in a city just across the Hudson River from New York. As reported by ARTnews when the plans were summarily canceled, the Centre Pompidou x Jersey City “was first announced in 2021 as a 58,000-square-foot museum set in a 109-year-old building on Journal Square. But as often happens in New Jersey, local politics interfered, and the plan quickly festered.” Concerns over the budget were raised in 2023, and in 2024 …

Site of Failed Jersey City Pompidou Tapped for Affordable Housing

Centre Pompidou’s Jersey City Museum Is Officially ‘Dead’

Published by José Betancourt

A Centre Pompidou satellite museum that was expected to open in Jersey City is officially not happening anymore, the city’s Mayor said on Wednesday. The museum, officially known as the Centre Pompidou x Jersey City, would have been the only North American satellite operated by Paris’s biggest museum of modern and contemporary art, which is currently closed for renovations. The Pompidou also runs satellites in Shanghai and Málaga, Spain. Others are expected to open in Hanwha, South Korea, and Paraná, Brazil, yet both pale in comparison to the most ambitious Pompidou satellite in the offing: Kanal, a new museum in Brussels. Some have raised concerns, however, about whether Kanal will ultimately open as Belgium continues to face a prolonged government shutdown. Related Articles Like the rest of these satellites, the Jersey City museum was years in the making. It was first announced in 2021 as a 58,000-square-foot museum set in a 109-year-old building on Journal Square. But as often happens in New Jersey, local politics interfered, and the plan quickly festered. In 2023, Republican lawmakers …