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He Built a $150 Million Village…for Schoolteachers

He Built a $150 Million Village…for Schoolteachers Innovative Newark Residence Designed for Educators is Reshaping Urban Living New Jersey native Ron Beit saw the potential…

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Teachers Village in Newark: A Case Study in Redevelopment

Teachers Village in Newark: A Case Study in Redevelopment Mixed-use Space Offers Residency, Retail, Recreation and Teacher Retention Among the many challenges faced by urban…

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Teachers Village Model Catches Eye of Silicon Valley

Teachers Village Model Catches Eye of Silicon Valley Affordable Housing for Educators Pointed to as Possibility for Helping Affluent Community Crisis As Silicon Valley continues…

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There’s a brilliant $150 million ‘Teachers Village’ in Newark

There’s a brilliant $150 million ‘Teachers Village’ in Newark Revolutionary Complex Has Changed City Living Landscape There’s a luxurious 400,000-square-foot complex in downtown Newark with…

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RBH Group Reshapes Newark With Boost From Goldman Sachs

RBH Group Reshapes Newark With Boost From Goldman Sachs Cooperation and shared vision drives city growth Goldman Sachs believed in the vision of RBH Group, whose…

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Teachers Village, SOMA Area, “Intriguing” Reason to Allure Amazon

Teachers Village, SOMA Area, “Intriguing” Reason to Allure Amazon Modern, Urban Development Seen as Window Toward Helping Retail Giant Help Newark Growth The new Teacher’s…

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Work Begins on Teachers Corner in Hartford

Work Begins on Teachers Corner in Hartford Financing complete for mixed-use development designed for area educators RBH Group, the developer of Newark’s Teachers Village, announced…

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Big Names Join RBH to Celebrate Teachers Village

Big Names Join RBH to Celebrate Teachers Village Senator Booker, Mayor Baraka among those at ceremonial ribbon cutting A who’s who of New Jersey dignitaries,…

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Financing in Place, Teachers Corner Set for Hartford

Financing in Place, Teachers Corner Set for Hartford Modern residence looks to retain area educators Developer RBH Group, of Newark, N.J., said funding for the…

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RBH Group, Teachers Village, Helping Spur Newark’s Growth

RBH Group and Teachers Village Big Part of Newark’s Renaissance Newark is one of America’s cities undergoing urban growth and success Developers are not always…

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Tonnie’s Minis Offers Clear Look at the New Newark

Tonnie’s Minis Offers Clear Look at the New Newark Owner Tonnie Rozier walks the walk with belief in city Near the corner of Halsey and…

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Teachers Village Architect Top Reason to “Pay Attention” to Newark

Teachers Village Architect Top Reason to “Pay Attention” to Newark City native Richard Meier’s vision and passion has revitalized area We have to give the…

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Teachers Village Concept Expanding to Connecticut

Work on Hartford’s Teachers Corner Set to Begin Studios, 1 and 2-bedroom apartments will be marketed to local educators A downtown apartment project stalled for…

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Senator Cory Booker Speaks Highly of Teachers Village

Assessing Cory Booker’s real estate deeds The U.S. senator’s past as a pro-development mayor pays dividends today It’s been nearly four years since Booker won…

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Waiting for a new Newark

RBH Group, the developer behind Teachers Village, played a big role in cultivating the revitalization of Newark. Those planted seeds are starting to come into…

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NYTimes Video: A Vertical Farm Grows in Newark

Congratulations to our tenant Aerofarms! RBH is grateful to our partners Goldman Sachs and Prudential, who helped finance this innovative, sustainable agriculture project in RBH’s…

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Retail Roundup: Tonnie’s Minis, Krauszer’s Moving Into Teachers Village

Several redevelopment projects have added significant retail space to Downtown Newark over the last few years, and those storefronts are now starting to fill up…

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DOWN ON THE URBAN FARM IN NEWARK

The Greater Newark Conservancy created a few ways to garden in the city. Credit: Jane Primerano Some of the raised beds at the Greater Newark…

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Is Newark the Next Brooklyn?

The “homeless billionaire,” a world-renowned architect and the future of Brick City. By JASON NARK Newark is building again. Yes, that Newark—the city in Jersey…

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‘Teachers Village’ Development Proposed For Former Von Humboldt Elementary

By Mina Bloom HUMBOLDT PARK — An East Coast developer behind a development called “Teachers Village” — a mixed-use community with housing marketed toward teachers —…

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NJIT tribute a welcome homecoming to renowned Newark architect

By Steve Strunsky Before moving to Maplewood and going on to achieve international acclaim as an architect whose designs include the Getty Center in Los…

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Ambitious Teachers Village Project to Wrap Up by Year’s End

By Chris Fry The largest mixed-use project to hit downtown Newark in decades will officially be completed by the end of 2016, and some additional retail…

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Newark’s Big Day

Phase 1 of the $150M, six-building Teachers Village that’s supposed to reinvent Newark celebrated its opening last week. No wonder Super Mayor Cory Booker (speaking,…

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Goldman, Richard Meier Boost $149 Million Newark Project

Newark, New Jersey, is home to one of the poorest downtowns in the U.S., a once-exuberant commercial retail corridor where many old movie palaces, ornate department…

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In Newark, Meier’s Site-Driven Design

A new, four-story, 90,000 square-foot, mixed use building in the Four Corners neighborhood of Newark, designed by Richard Meier & Partners, breaks away from all…

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Class Act: Projects like Teachers Village can draw otherwise wary retailers to urban areas

By Joshua Burd, Harlem retailers have ‘the most relevant experience to succeed here,’ says Ron Beit, who recruited them to come to his Teachers Village…

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‘Teachers Village’ Developers Have Big Dreams For Downtown Newark

NEWARK, N.J. — If Ron Beit has his way, the next big thing in urban renewal won’t come from any of the political elite or…

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Newark Teachers Village Has Its Opening Day

  NEWARK, NJ-Business and political leaders, including Gov. Chris Christie and Newark Mayor and US Senate hopeful Cory Booker, turned out for opening ceremonies at…

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Richard Meier Completes 230 Halsey Street in Newark, New Jersey

New York, September 24, 2013 – Richard Meier & Partners Architects has completed its first project in Newark, New Jersey with the opening of 230…

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High Marks for Transit Hubs

WANT to know which New Jersey train stations have the most plentiful supply of parking spaces relative to town population? There’s a list for that….

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Newark Project Aims to Link Living and Learning

NEWARK — Work has begun on an education-centered community featuring three charter schools and affordable housing for teachers in the city’s decayed downtown, with much…

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Viewing Newark as a ‘Blank Canvas’

Newark Mayor Cory Booker, Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs, Eric Schmidt of Google and Nicolas Berggruen of Berggruen Holdings, were on site in Newark, N.J.,…

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By the Architects, for the People: A Trend for the 2010s

  NEWARK — Last week, when the city planning board here voted to approve construction of a four-block-long mixed-use development, the decision was barely noticed…

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