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The Cove, Jersey City, NJ — Developers Argent Ventures and H&H REIT propose transforming 18 acres on the Hudson River waterfront of Jersey City, NJ, into “The Cove,” a $3 billion campus whose mix of uses would include 1.4 million square feet of lab and office space for life science and other tech users at cheaper-than-Manhattan rents—as well as skyline views of New York City. [Nancy J. Kelley + Associates]

You Can See Manhattan from Your Lab: $3B “Cove” Campus Announced in Jersey City

Mixed-use campus envisioned as “glue” between New Jersey and New York City

By Alex Philippidis

April 7, 2021

Developers Argent Ventures and H&H REIT propose transforming 18 acres on the Hudson River waterfront of Jersey City, NJ, into “The Cove,” a $3 billion campus whose mix of uses would include 1.4 million square feet of lab and office space for life science and other tech users at cheaper-than-Manhattan rents—as well as skyline views of New York City. [Nancy J. Kelley + Associates]

To fill the project’s planned lab space, The Cove looks to draw upon the region’s numerous life-sci employers, New Jersey’s sizeable life-sci labor force, and Jersey City’s urban dynamic in a state where most life sciences space is within suburban or exurban lab-office campuses built a generation ago . . .