With Help From Others, Newark Is Building for Business

Certainly, many of the changes are visible. A streetscape project along Broad Street has added a median and flowers to what was a chaotic, treacherous crossing.

Around the corner from the 150-room Marriott, asbestos abatement has begun for the renovation of a Cass Gilbert building that will reemerge next year as an Indigo hotel with a rooftop bar. “I call it selective improvement,” said Marc E. Berson, the chairman of the Fidelco Group, which is building Dinosaur Bar-B-que with the Hanini Group. “I can turn and say there are different segments that are doing fairly well. As I march around I see signals of change.”

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