The former KC Jazz site will be demolished to make way for a temporary parking lot while the Irving Street Bridge is reconstructed over the next year.
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.City Council passed a resolution (AR-266-24) at its December 9 meeting awarding the acceptance of a bid to demolish two structures at the corner of Seminary Avenue and Irving Street.
Irvington-based KM Construction was the lowest of three bids received at $109,093. Bids also were received on December 4 from Colonnelli Brothers Brothers, Inc. of Hackensack, $172,815, and Pittstown-based ADS Contractors LLC, $216,792.
The parking lot will provide an alternative parking location for residents, business owners, and customers of establishments along Irving Street between Seminary and the bridge while the Irving Street Bridge is being reconstructed by Union County, according to Katherine Gonzalez, confidential aide to Mayor Raymond Giacobbe, Jr. Union County plans to close Irving Street from Seminary Avenue to West Main Street, which will eliminate street parking and restrict access to the parking lot at 1640 Irving St. for the duration of the project which the county has indicated could be for approximately one year. The bridge was damaged after Hurricane Ida in 2021.
The city acquired the three lots associated with the former KC Jazz club concept in 2020 for $500,000, according to property records: 1646-8 Irving St. and (Block 162, Lot 5), 1654 Irving St. (Lot 6), and Seminary Avenue (Lot 7). The properties are part of the Arts District Redevelopment Plan developed in 2020.
In 2007, the Planning Board approved KC Jazz Club along with some apartments on the upper floors but never materialized. The Redevelopment Agency in 2012 lifted a restriction on the property that required it to be developed specifically as a jazz club after the project ran into problems.
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