Mayor Ras J. Baraka, the Newark Municipal Council, Acting Deputy Mayor of Economic and Housing Development Carmelo Garcia, Newark Community Economic Development Corporation President and CEO Aisha Glover, the Newark Downtown District, J&L Companies, Sage and Coombe Architects, Prudential Center, and Edison Properties, will break ground for Mulberry Commons, a $10 million private/public development project in Newark’s downtown, today, Monday, October 2, at 1:30 p.m., onMulberry Street between Lafayette Street and Edison Place, opposite the Prudential Center, in downtown Newark.

Mulberry Commons is recognized as a milestone in Newark’s economic development, creating a new center of gravity in the City’s growing downtown and unlocking the long ignored development potential of Newark’s Penn Station, one of the nation’s busiest rail hubs.

Mulberry Commons draws upon “living system” concepts including landscape architecture, walk ability, urban lifestyle, and ecology. Leading the design efforts for the six of the project’s 22 acres is the award-winning architectural firm Sage & Coombe Architects and Supermass Studio Landscape Architect. The open space development will also open up a vast area of undeveloped land to residential and office development.