MARCH 31, 2015 LAST UPDATED: TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2015, 1:21 AM
BY HUGH R. MORLEY
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
* Multifamily housing, warehouse construction put 7,900 more on payrolls so far this year
The recovering New Jersey housing sector and a surge in warehouse projects has helped spark a dramatic increase in construction employment around the state, which last year added the most construction jobs in a decade.
The increase of 10,000 jobs in the sector in 2014, up 7.5 percent, far outstripped the 1 percent increase in all jobs over the period, figures from the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development show.
And the addition of 7,900 construction jobs in January and February show the increase continuing into 2015.
Increased construction in the multifamily sector, particularly along the Gold Coast, the Hudson River waterfront from Jersey City to Fort Lee, is a key driver in the construction employment hike, said builders and economists.
“It’s getting more and more healthy each year, without question,” said George Vallone, principal of Hoboken Brownstone Co. and president of the New Jersey Builders Association, a Hamilton-based trade group. “And if you are in a particular sector, which is the multifam section on the Gold Coast — it’s blazing hot.”
https://www.northjersey.com/news/business/building-surge-adds-jobs-1.1299296
Ridgewood is leading they way thanks to Big Al the developers friend. Thanks for creating all those jobs for NJ.
Just where in Ridgewood is the building going on,i must have missed it?
WOW 11:50 have kept up with whats going on. Have you read the Ridgewood New or this blog? Its coming if Big Al the Developers Friend, The Chamber of Commerce and the other 2 Amigos have anything to do with it. Stop trolling.
Posters here might want to connect the dots between our Mayor and his many union supporters that stand to profit handsomely from the various development projects being weighed by the Village.