JERSEY CITY-The city’s partners in a long-stalled project to revitalize Journal Square with up to 1,500 new housing units and extensive retail on a site adjacent to the PATH station will not meet an April 1 deadline for getting shovels in the ground, and have asked for another year to make good, Jersey City officials tell GlobeSt.com. The Jersey City Redevelopment Agency chief says the answer is probably no.

“As a public-private partnership, this one has not been very productive,” says JRCA executive director, Bob Antonicello. “At this point, the request for an additional year on top of what has already been six years is a very difficult pill to swallow.”

Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy backed up the JCRA chief with this statement: “The redevelopment of Journal Square is a major priority for this administration and we support any and all actions that the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency takes so that construction may begin as soon as possible.”