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Newark Arena Deal Could Mean $100 Mil for South Jersey

TRENTON-The contentious environment surrounding enabling legislation for the proposed Devils-Nets venue seems about to take on a decidedly North-South tone in the Garden State.

By Eric Peterson | Updated on September 04, 2001

TRENTON-The North Jersey-South Jersey schism lives. North Jersey has long treated the southern part of the state as poor cousins, while South Jerseyans have long charged that their brethren to the north get all of the breaks from Trenton. Indeed, back in the ’70s and ’80s there was even an active secessionist movement that would have had the South break off as a new state.

The rivalry has flared anew over the proposed arena in downtown Newark in North Jersey that would be the new home of the NBA Nets and NHL Devils (most people in South Jersey root for the 76ers and Flyers anyway). The main reason the enabling legislation to fund the new arena never got to the floor of the state assembly before the summer break was that assembly speaker Jack Collins (R-Salem County), from South Jersey, wouldn’t let it. The sticking point is that he wanted some of the largesse to fall on South Jersey (see earlier stories).

Now, according to a published report, legislation could hit the floor by early fall — with a $100 million bag of goodies targeting South Jersey added on for good measure. According to the report, negotiations over the past few weeks have brought all parties close to an agreement.

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