JERSEY CITY – Jersey City is transforming a Superfund into a waterfront park that will come with a monument to the deceased citizens of COVID-19.
Mayor Steven Fulop on Thursday announced a $10 million investment to help create the 12-acre public area along the Hackensack River that will come with a garden, panoramic walkways and a pedestrian bridge that will connect a 516-tree grove, representing a victim of COVID-19ArrayEach The call will be a component of a memorial wall.
“A tree will be planted for each of the 516 citizens who have been stripped of their lives and farewells because of this pandemic to give their friends and family circle a place where they can reflect and enjoy their lost,” Fulop said.
Part of the Pulaski Skyway built on site in the 1930s. In the 1970s, it housed the PJP dump where chemicals were poured and commercialized, legally and illegally, creating common underground fires. , and federal and state environmental agencies carried out remediation paintings in the 1980s and 1990s.
The 87 acres lately houses a warehouse distribution center and a trucking company. More than 200,000 other people live within 2,1/2 miles of theArray according to the EPA website.