Hackensack halts $40 million sports complex plan after years of delays
At a special council meeting Monday night, city officials voted to scrub the idea after the contractor increased construction costs from an initial $7 million deal in 2016 to $40 million now.
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4h agoA long-awaited sports complex project in Hackensack has been officially suspended after nearly a decade of delays and rising costs.
Hackensack Council Members have pulled the plug on the planned sports complex slated for Johnson Park just off River Street.
At a special council meeting Monday night, city officials voted to scrub the idea after the contractor increased construction costs from an initial $7 million deal in 2016 to $40 million now.
Construction was supposed to take 2 years and be finished by 2018.
News 12 reached out to city leaders as well as the contractor, APS Contracting, Inc. of Paterson, for further comment on how it got to this point.
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