The Albanese Organization is a privately held, full-service real estate firm dedicated to creating commercial and residential buildings of distinction, quality and architectural merit that optimize value, are environmentally responsible, and enhance the communities in which they are located.

Specifically, we serve as a developer and represent owners, investors and joint-venture partners. We strive to realize the maximum potential from real estate holdings through the assemblage, development, construction, rehabilitation, management and marketing of undeveloped or underutilized properties. Our fiduciary responsibilities are performed with discipline, care and professionalism. Our development and management skills enable us to successfully achieve program, design, construction, and financial objectives.

A LEADER IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Since the development of the ground-breaking Solaire (America’s first LEED Gold, environmentally advanced residential tower) the Albanese Organization has been a nationally recognized leader in sustainable development. We remain devoted to developing and operating real estate in an environmentally sustainable manner. We approach every project stage with the highest degree of focus, experience, and skill, and an abiding respect for the environment and the well-being of occupants. Our construction management team works with industry professionals to identify, examine and implement high performance strategies consistent with these project goals. Successful completion of subsequent groundbreaking projects like the Verdesian (America’s first LEED Platinum residential tower) and the Visionaire (America’s first LEED Platinum condominium tower) are testaments to our ability to integrate “green” building principles utilizing the latest technologies to provide added health benefits to occupants, while conserving the earth’s resources.

Pelli Clarke & Partners designs buildings and spaces that inspire and transform communities worldwide.

Based in New Haven and New York City, our Partners lead interdisciplinary teams of architects, designers, and technical experts across the globe. Diverse perspectives, focused engagement, and empathy fuel our design process.

From our founding in 1977, Cesar Pelli instilled a culture of creativity and innovation. We proudly carry this legacy forward as we redefine possibilities for living, working, and learning in a changing world.

DEFINING THE FUTURE OF PLACEMAKING

Transformative architecture is born from deep engagement with the unique circumstances of purpose and place. We work side-by-side with our clients to create buildings and spaces that embody their core values and expand possibility. The same studio team is dedicated to each project for its duration, ensuring meticulous development from start to finish.

A HISTORY OF SOLUTIONS. A CULTURE OF SERVICE.

If architecture is, indeed, as the poet Goethe wrote, “frozen music”, then Marchetto Higgins Stieve has composed some timeless hits.

Since our founding in 1981, Marchetto Higgins Stieve Architects has orchestrated award-winning architectural, planning, and design services for a long list of residential and mixed-use developments. But more than winning awards, our inventive and successful solutions have repeatedly helped provide the kind of returns that developers expect and appreciate.

Guided by the principles of new urbanism, we have been the leading force in creating the new face for Hoboken’s incredible revitalization. And throughout New Jersey, we are at the cutting edge of several significant trends: the trend to bring downtowns back to small towns, design and planning for transit-oriented smart growth developments, and the critical trend of implementing green, sustainable architecture.

FOCUSED REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT

Developers work with Marchetto Higgins Stieve Architects because they know that we know what’s important to them. Such as creating multi-family designs that will not only accommodate the optimum number of families but also make people want to live there. We understand that architecture doesn’t become “frozen music” until it’s built. That’s why our extensive experience working with community boards and municipal officials is so valuable. It has helped us achieve an extraordinary record of successfully completed projects.

Hargreaves Jones has been at the forefront of landscape architecture and planning since 1983 and is globally renowned for the transformation of urban sites, waterfronts, and campuses into iconic landscapes. The firm’s exceptional work has been widely exhibited, published, and recognized by over 100 national and international awards, including the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award and the Rosa Barba International Landscape Prize.

Our offices in New York City, San Francisco, and Cambridge work collectively, united by a belief in the power of expressive and responsive design to create enduring landscapes for communities, institutions, and individuals.  Fueled by rigorous investigation, our work engages dynamic site systems and cultural forces, with the intention of setting landscapes into motion – always evolving and adaptable.  We approach each project as an opportunity to reveal the unique qualities of a place: whether amplifying the natural phenomena of a site, expressing historic narratives, transforming infrastructural impediments into public realm opportunities, or encouraging individual interpretation and discovery.  Above all, we seek to foreground landscape, as the essential foundation for civic and environmental resilience.

Eugene T. Paolino is a Partner in the Firm’s Jersey City, NJ office and a member of the Land Use & Approvals, Commercial Real Estate & Redevelopment, Corporate Law & Business Transactions, and Complex Commercial Litigation Practice Groups as well as the Land Development, Education and Real Estate Industry Groups. A Jersey City native, Mr. Paolino has practiced law in New Jersey for more than four decades. He brings deep knowledge, experience and practical skills to his clients’ real estate development, tax abatement, commercial, zoning, land use and redevelopment law matters. In addition, he has significant experience with municipal, county and state developer incentives as well as education and corporate law, with litigation experience in all these areas.

During his career, Mr. Paolino has worked on numerous projects, large and small, in Jersey City and throughout the State of New Jersey. He brings a broad spectrum of experience and expertise to the representation of each of his clients. Mr. Paolino has played a critical role in obtaining governmental approvals and financing for some of the most iconic and significant real estate projects along New Jersey’s Hudson River “Gold Coast” and in Jersey Jersey City, including:

• 77 Hudson Street
• 101 Hudson Street
• The Beacon (formerly Jersey City Medical Center)
• Saint Peter’s MacMahon Student Center
• Saint Peter’s Tower McGinley Square (proposed)
• One Journal Square
• The Rise at 711 Montgomery
• Crescent Park in the Grand Jersey Redevelopment Area
• 30 Journal Square
• 65 Bay Street

Mr. Paolino serves as General Counsel to Saint Peter’s University. He was Assistant Corporation Counsel to the City of Jersey City and Special Environmental Counsel to the City of Hoboken. In addition to his robust commercial real estate law and development practice, Mr. Paolino has significant litigation experience, having argued complex contract disputes and corporate claims at every level in the trial and appellate courts.

As Associate Director of Planning Services, much of Charles’ work at Dresdner Robin is focused on the key components of land use and environmental planning. He places a strong emphasis on development feasibility, redevelopment, environmental and fiscal impact analysis, and sustainability.

His skillset includes development feasibility, community engagement, environmental/fiscal impact analysis, and population/planning/variance studies. Because of his wide base of experience in residential, commercial, mixed-use, industrial, and institutional projects, Charles demonstrates a facility with effective project management. He is often called upon as an expert witness in planning before local and regional boards throughout the tri-state area.

Before joining Dresdner Robin, Charles was a key contributor to the early development of the Sustainable Jersey certification program with the Sustainability Institute (formerly New Jersey Sustainable State Institute). He continues to collaborate on various projects with the Center for Urban Policy Research, including the annual National Historic Preservation Tax Credit Report.

Charles Heydt earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from The College of New Jersey and a Master of City and Regional Planning (MCRP) degree from the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. A long-time member of the American Planning Association (APA) and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), he continues to serve on the APA-NJ Executive Committee.

Our approach to the redevelopment/renewal process is based not a state statute, which outlines and provides the legal mechanism for a municipality to undertake a redevelopment initiative, but on the broader promise of what redevelopment is intended to accomplish: to renew and restart a community.

Scores of successful redevelopments have risen since the passage of the Housing Act in 1949. At the same time, the redevelopment landscape is littered with failed projects, dashed hopes, and scars of failed redevelopment efforts. For every failure like the Columbus Homes in Newark, there are successes like Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.

Whenever community and elected leaders consider a redevelopment project, it sparks intense community debate. There is no shortage of answers, along with disappointment and disillusionment, during the long, complicated process toward reaching a common consensus. Municipalities are tasked with numerous essential services, from safe streets to good schools. But often, the most complicated challenge it faces is revitalizing a troubled neighborhood or declining business district.

The redevelopment process is a complex, multi-disciplinary effort that requires cooperation from many disparate groups with various goals and agendas. Moreover, most municipalities work with limited resources or mismatched skill sets, which limit their ability to sustain focus on redevelopment initiatives. At Grid Real Estate, we understand this process and the promises and pitfalls intimately, though 35 years’ experience at the leading edge of numerous redevelopment efforts. As advisors, we can assist local governments and community groups as they maneuver the complicated redevelopment process and help them reach a clear consensus on the necessary milestones and goals needed to embark upon any community renewal.