Hoboken, NJ – The City Council subcommittee responsible for evaluating the proposed Hilton hotel is announcing that late Wednesday night it received a verbal commitment from KMS, the developer of the hotel, to increase the total community benefits by $350,000 to $4.85 million.  This increase will provide further investment in education and infrastructure in surrounding neighborhoods.  With this increase, the subcommittee supports the improved plan, trusts that Mayor Bhalla will see these expanded contributions as beneficial to more Hoboken residents, and recommends that the City Council vote 9-0 on Wednesday, October 17^th in support of this revised plan... 

In aggregate, the revised proposal will now be:

-              $2 million to help establish the Hoboken Community Center, with $75,000 to be immediately available to fund their feasibility study and launch the project

-              $1.165 million for infrastructure, with $165,000 to be dedicated to the needs of the adjacent neighborhoods

-              $1 million to fund the endowment for Hoboken Public Education Foundation which provides private investment into the Hoboken Public District Schools

-              $485,000 to the three Hoboken Public Charter Schools

-              $200,000 into our Affordable Housing Trust fund to help seed future investment in affordable housing

 “The City Council Subcommittee wants to thank KMS Development for their incredible commitment to supporting the broad needs within our community and for bringing a world class hotel to Hoboken that will redefine our southern waterfront.  We appreciated working collaboratively with all stakeholders in making community benefits in this redevelopment a priority and trust that Mayor Bhalla finds these additional concessions from the developer a benefit as well.  We encourage our neighbors to reach out to the Mayor and the rest of City Council to ask for their support of this improved plan that reaches even more of us.”

Contact: 

Councilman Peter Cunningham                      201-562-7071

Councilman Mike DeFusco                             646-372-4341

Councilwoman Tiffanie Fisher                        201-208-1674

Council Vice-President Jen Giattino               201-780-6779

Council President Ruben Ramos                   201-401-7947