Hoboken is a one-square-mile city where most commercial space sits in converted 19th- and early 20th-century industrial and mercantile buildings, and where the Washington Street retail corridor forms an almost continuous run of small-bay storefronts.
The city is also a designated flood-prone area with substantial resiliency investment following Hurricane Sandy, which put ground-floor envelope performance under real scrutiny for owners and lenders.
Building stock
Loft-conversion office and retail in masonry buildings, narrow-bay Washington Street storefronts, and newer waterfront office and mixed-use development near the terminal.
Nearly every commercial glazing job in Hoboken is a storefront replacement into an existing masonry opening on an occupied building, on a street with no staging room. Survey accuracy, night or early-morning delivery windows, sidewalk protection and matching an existing cornice or bulkhead line matter more here than system selection does.
Scope
Narrow-bay retail entrances still have to meet accessible clear width and opening force, which frequently forces a door and hardware redesign inside a fixed masonry opening.
Entry doors & hardware →Perimeter joints between new aluminum and old masonry are the weak point in these conversions, and flood-zone ground floors get scrutinized for water entry.
Weatherproofing & silicone →The waterfront office buildings near the terminal carry mid-rise curtain wall with direct river exposure.
Curtain wall →The leading scope for Hoboken's commercial building stock, described above.
Storefront systems →Coverage
Projects are scoped and priced across northern and central New Jersey, from the Bergen County line south through the Hudson waterfront, the Newark and Elizabeth industrial belt, the Route 1 and Turnpike corridors of Middlesex County, and on to the Monmouth and Ocean County shore. Coverage includes Bergen, Hudson, Essex, Union, Passaic, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean counties, plus eastern Somerset.
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