Former Jersey City dye factory being demolished.
One of Jersey City’s longest-standing eyesores is coming down. Demolition of the “Purple People” building on Ege Avenue started yesterday. A location where dyes were manufactured for over 40 years, the property became one of the city’s most visible vacant properties.
“We’re happy to remove Jersey City’s worst vacant industrial building,” a spokesman for Mayor Jerramiah Healy said in a press release.
After an emergency EPA and DEP clean-up overseen by the City of Jersey City in the early 2000s, the building was left unattended for almost a decade.
Picon Partners Redevelopment, a subsidiary of the M.D. Sass Company, which recently foreclosed on the damaged property via a tax lien that was purchased from Jersey City, officially gained title to the property about 60 days ago, city officials said yesterday.
Once the demolition has been completed and all debris has been removed, plans will be drawn up for redevelopment of the site and submitted to the city for review, company officials said.
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