Redevelopment Lagging Near Newark’s Arena
By MARY JO PATTERSON
NEWARK
THE glass entrance towers flanking the glossy Prudential Center downtown were bathed in light as members of the city’s business community streamed inside one morning last month, eager to tour the place and hear about developers’ efforts to transform the neighborhood.
“You can really feel the difference,” Barbara E. Kauffman, executive vice president of the Newark Regional Business Partnership, said in the hockey-themed arena’s Bud Light Goal Bar, a premium seating area. “Things are happening, and starting to pop.”
Yet the view from the Prudential Center’s glass towers did not suggest much action at all.
In one direction, surface parking stretched as far as the eye could see, with nary a new high-rise in sight. A hulking century-old warehouse loomed at the site of a proposed pedestrian walkway, its demolition frozen by a lawsuit. In another direction stood a snazzy new sports bar and steakhouse, the Brick City Bar and Grill, but it was the only player on an otherwise deserted block.
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