We are passionate about the performance of our products. Natural lighting, indoor air quality, and the efficient use of water and energy are mantras that drive our design development. Combining these concepts with sites situated along transportation hubs and retail clusters transforms under utilized properties into neighborhood icons. As a result, tenants are able to experience a cleaner, more efficient and environmentally friendlier way of life.

Our goal is simple; to design, build and maintain the highest quality sustainable developments in Hoboken. Over the next few months we will engage you with stories from our team, as well as from various voices of our extended family. This assortment of contributors will provide a range of perspectives, comprehensively illustrating our care for the community and our commitment to a better way of living.

Sometimes the paths we choose to take are not the easiest, but maybe that is the true spirit of leading by example, striving to always do things the right way.

Sustainable living. Refined detail. Hoboken evolved.

The key to developing Hoboken’s old industrial section of the city is a project design that recognizes the transit hub village potential of the light rail along the west side, according to the real estate section of the New York Times.
The article centers on a property owned by Lawrence Bijou, who bought bought a tract at Monroe and Ninth Streets in the summer from Tarragon Properties, With the debate over density of the project, Bijou hired local architect Dean Marchetto who will redesign and scale down the project which includes more green space.

Real estate professionals, developers and builders are all reporting the same thing: today’s homebuyers who are looking for maximum value are asking for more than granite countertops and hardwood floors. They want energy savings and green buildings.

LEED [Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design], a certification program of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), has become the leading benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high-performance residential buildings.

As the story goes, when developer Lawrence Bijou petitioned the Hoboken zoning board about variances to transform a 1919 coconut processing plant on 14th and Garden Sts. into a LEED-certified green building with a zinc-clad addition hanging over the top of the existing structure, they looked confused.

“Why are you doing all this?” one zoning official asked, making it clear that Hoboken had never seen anything like it.

Bijou Properties has taken the initial steps to convert a stretch of Hoboken, N.J. into Hudson County’s first green neighborhood.

The developer recently completed the installation of the region’s first green roof on the former Hostess Building at the corner of 14th Street and Park Avenue, which Bijou converted to two stories of retail space housing a New York Sports Club, a CVS Pharmacy and a bank, according to Lawrence Bijou, managing partner of the firm that bears his name.

ONE of the hottest new amenities being offered in upscale urban condominium developments doesn’t have anything to do with granite in the kitchen, marble in the baths, steam rooms or simulator golf. It’s school.

The Hamilton Park Montessori School at the Hamilton Square condo in Jersey City.
As cities like Hoboken and Jersey City, once havens for college-age renters, have been transformed into condo-heavy communities brimming with young professionals, the population of babies and toddlers has inevitably increased.

Take a long look at that unattractive parking garage on 14th Street the next time you find yourself in uptown Hoboken because, sometime during the next year, it’s going to give way to a 12-story, 180-unit LEED Gold mixed-use condominium complex, developed by Teaneck, New Jersey-based Bijou Properties (image to the left via Bijou’s website). The $100 million project, designed by Hoboken’s Dean Marchetto Architects, will offer 30,000 square feet of ground floor retail space, 371 parking spots, and a green roof, among numerous other sustainable design elements.

THE conversion of a huge Hoboken warehouse building into condominiums and the nearly completed restoration of a small 1860 farmhouse near the Delaware River are two very different sorts of projects. But they share an intriguing goal: creation of 21st-century “green” homes in history-laden structures without stripping the buildings’ original character.

In Hoboken, the developer Lawrence Bijou is moving forward with a bold plan by the Manhattan firm of SHoP Architects to graft a zinc-faced addition onto an 80-year-old brick warehouse once used to process coconuts. The project, which will create 30 one-, two-, and three-bedroom condos, will be the first residential apartment structure on the Jersey waterfront built to the standards specified by the United States Green Building Council for achieving its “silver” rating.