Mayor Ras J. Baraka, the Newark Municipal Council, Department of Economic and Housing Development Deputy Mayor Carmelo Garcia, and Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group Managing Director Margaret Anadu will break ground for the construction of a new Department of Public Works motor vehicle facility on Tuesday, September 19, at 11:30 a.m., at 52-90 Amsterdam Street in Newark’s East Ward.

The new eco-friendly and self-sustainable operations facility is a public-private partnership that entails impact investment and funding from Goldman Sachs. It is located in an industrial section of the Ironbound neighborhood just east of Routes 1 and 9. It will include a two one-story motor vehicle storage buildings, one of which would include a mezzanine, a one-story motor vehicle repair garage, a four-story parking deck with 227 spaces, and a seven-story office building. The garages would provide washing, fueling, and repairs for City vehicles.

Renderings posted by Downtown Newark-based architecture firm Comito Associates, PC show that the complex would stretch all the way from Magazine Street to Wilson Avenue, and would include lockers, a cafeteria, a body and welding shop, a fire engine repair shop, a fuel station, a masonry, carpentry, and paint shop, a truck wash, storage for City-owned vehicles like dump trucks and salt spreaders, storage for the Newark Police Department’s confiscated vehicles, and administrative facilities for the  Department of Water and Sewer Utilities.