JERSEY CITY, NJ-This is how it begins, the grand and massive redevelopment of Journal Square, where four major projects are planned to transform the gritty area around the PATH station with towering apartment buildings, a revived theater and new hotel, retail and office space. All that will take a decade or two. It begins like this: 56 apartments carved out of a 1960s office building opening next month.

“We're a forerunner at Journal Square,” says Matt Weinreich of New York City-based Hopkins Group. “We're here at the start of an incredibly exciting time.”

The company's Kennedy Lofts will open at 100 Newkirk Street just off the square, in a former social services building that just months ago was a typically frayed element in an old and quirky neighborhood.

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