Hearings to Begin Monday on Western Half Of 'Area 5'

The Fort Lee Planning Board will hold the first of at least four special meetings Monday at the on Tucker Development Corporation’s mixed-use plan for the roughly eight-acre West parcel of Redevelopment Area 5.

The board on April 9, the first step in the approval process.

Tucker’s application for the western portion of the property includes a 475-unit residential high-rise, a hotel and about 175,000 square feet of retail space.

The series of public meetings comes about a month after the —a plan that includes two 47-story towers with 902 luxury residential units, a 1.7-acre public park, a restaurant and a small movie theater, among other amenities.

The overall development project on the 16 acres of land just south of George Washington Bridge that have been vacant for more than 45 years is estimated at about $1 billion.

The public hearings on Tucker’s site plan for the West parcel, which all start at 7:30 p.m. and all take place at the community center, are as follows:

• Monday, April 23
• Monday, May 7
• Monday, May 14
• Monday, May 21

Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich called it “an aggressive schedule.”

“We’re ready as soon as you’re ready,” William F. Harrison, the attorney for Tucker, told the board on April 9.