The Powerhouse Arts District is a neighborhood in Downtown Jersey City, New Jersey, which takes its name from the unused generating station Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Powerhouse. For a time, called WALDO, an 11 block section of historic warehouses, some of which have been redeveloped. It was part of the The Horseshoe.
The Powerhouse is north of Paulus Hook, west of Harborside Financial Center, and borders Harsimus and Newport, Jersey City. The...
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The Powerhouse Arts District is a neighborhood in Downtown Jersey City, New Jersey, which takes its name from the unused generating station Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Powerhouse. For a time, called WALDO, an 11 block section of historic warehouses, some of which have been redeveloped. It was part of the The Horseshoe.
The Powerhouse is north of Paulus Hook, west of Harborside Financial Center, and borders Harsimus and Newport, Jersey City. The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company Warehouse at Provost St. between 1st and Bay Sts.40°43′16″N 74°2′25″W / 40.72111°N 74.04028°W / 40.72111; -74.04028 (Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company Warehouse) The Pavonia-Newport, Harsimus Cove, and Harborside stations of the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail are in or near the district.
WALDO, an acronym from Work And Live District Overlay, was the name of a planning strategy adopted into Jersey City zoning in 2002 per a proposal written by the Urban Land Institute, and was deleted from the zoning on...
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