{"id":511394,"date":"2026-01-12T18:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/511394\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T18:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:16:09","slug":"liberty-state-park-again-on-the-chopping-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/511394\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty State Park again On the Chopping Block"},"content":{"rendered":"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 1\/11\/2026\u00a0 Liberty State Park again On the Chopping Block<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Friends of Liberty State Park www.folsp.org<\/a><\/p>\n

WHEN:<\/strong> Thursday January 15 at 10am<\/strong>
WHERE:<\/strong> State House Commission Virtual Public Hearing www.nj.gov\/treasury\/statehouse-commission\/pdf\/01152026agenda.pdf<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

There\u2019s no need to download Microsoft Teams App. People can speak for 3 minutes. There\u2019s also a telephone call option and people at work can briefly join to put their comment in the Chat Box. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Five days before Mikie Sherrill is Governor, the undemocratic, shameless lame duck DEP Commissioner is pushing for a State House Commission approval of his 60-year new marina lease allowing a massive 500 boat storage warehouse<\/strong> – 70 feet high on 2.3 acres<\/strong> and a second building .3 acre at 55 feet high – a total of 2.6 acres of gargantuan commercial buildings along LSP\u2019s northern entrance. That\u2019s equivalent to 2 football fields with most of it 70 feet high!<\/p>\n

Friends of LSP urge LSP and good government supporters to oppose the lease. The commercial warehouse would damage LSP\u2019s sacredness, character, history, openness, purpose and sacredness of this priceless park behind Lady Liberty. The DEP lease is an obscene sell-out of LSP in allowing the multibillion-dollar marina corporation’s major privatization expansion in the priceless NJ and American park, months before LSP’s 50th birthday and USA’s 250th! Like a bad king, the Commissioner is arrogantly ignoring the 49 years of overwhelming opposition to LSP privatization and commercialization and 702 public comment emails at the end of the summer. <\/strong><\/p>\n

There is NO GOOD REASON for Governor Murphy to not withdraw the LSP agenda item<\/strong> for what will be condemned as the \u201cGovernor Phil Murphy Boat Storage Warehouse\u201d. \u00a0Governor Sherrill should review and revise the lease and listen to the People as Commissioner LaTourette hasn’t done!<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are other options to fund the marina bulkhead if it actually is the state’s obligation, which an attorney asserts it\u2019s not. The DEP already is moving forward with the plan for informal athletic fields, lease or not. An attorney wrote letter states the DEP’s lease process was defective.<\/a> www.folsp.org\/preservation\/lspmarina_attorney_letter.pdf<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Please also contact lease opponents Senator Raj Mukherji, Congressman Rob Menendez and Jersey City Mayor-elect James Solomon.<\/strong><\/p>\n

SIx boat warehouse renderings by Suntex Marinas are at https:\/\/www.folsp.org\/preservation\/marina_boatwarehouse_renderings.pdf<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The lease ignores the maximum Half-Acre footprint for a dry rack storage facility set by the 1990 National Park Service Decision on this federally funded parkland, meant for \u201cpublic outdoor recreation\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Friends’ Jersey City Times opposition op-ed <\/strong>on Jan. 6 is at www.nj.gov\/treasury\/statehouse-commission\/pdf\/01152026agenda.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

Background material on this marina lease battle including the lease’s “term sheet”<\/strong>, revealed a month after it was secretly signed, is www.folsp.org\/preservation\/lspmarina_leasebattle.html<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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