break ground on Jersey City’s first new firehouse in 20 years. The $5.6 million state-of-the-art firehouse is located in the Bergen-Lafayette neighborhood, one of Jersey City’s most densely populated areas.
The new 12,000 square foot fire station will house Engine 10 and Ladder 12, formerly of Halladay Street. It will replace the decommissioned 116-year-old fire station, which was condemned after the floor collapsed inside the single-bay structure, originally built for horse-drawn fire apparatus.
“We are furthering our commitment to bring renewed opportunities to areas that need it most, and this firehouse is our latest investment in the key community assets our residents deserve,” said Mayor Fulop. “This project is two-fold in that we are putting the critical resources to build upon recent growth in Bergen-Lafayette, while also expanding public safety with a newly equipped and modernized firehouse to enhance safety for our brave firefighters and the greater public.”
The new firehouse comes to the neighborhood, which has seen a great deal of new development under the Fulop Administration. Despite the economic uncertainty in the region throughout the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the structure is the latest investment the City has made to the Bergen-Lafayette neighborhood and to public safety in recent months. A new Public Safety Headquarters is currently being built and scheduled to open in the near future as part of the City Hall Annex Complex on Martin Luther King Drive. The Jackson Square complex is the largest public investment in Bergen-Lafayette that Jersey City has seen in decades.
Construction on the brand new firehouse is expected to be completed Summer of 2022.
