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Mayor Solomon recently said during a public meeting that Liberty Science High School is unlikely to be built due to cost concerns. Rendering by RSC Architects via the City of Jersey City.<\/p>\n Mayor Solomon recently said during a public meeting that Liberty Science High School is unlikely to be built due to cost concerns. Rendering by RSC Architects via the City of Jersey City.<\/p>\n
The mayor of New Jersey\u2019s second-largest city has cast doubt on a long-planned STEM high school facility due to cost concerns and a local budget crisis.<\/p>\n
Per Hudson County View<\/a>, Jersey City Mayor James Solomon recently told the Riverview Neighborhood Association during a meeting that Liberty Science Center High School is unlikely to proceed. The project, located near Liberty Science Center, has not\u00a0yet begun construction despite officials holding an indoor \u201cgroundbreaking<\/a>\u201d in 2023.<\/p>\n \u201cThere never was a plan to fund the high school,\u201d Solomon reportedly told the crowd during the meeting. \u201cHigh schools are expensive; they cost millions of dollars to run every year. And we are in a mass budget deficit. I don\u2019t see a way the Liberty Science High School can move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n Solomon added that it was not fiscally responsible for city taxpayers to pay $2 million a year to fund the school. Jersey City is currently facing a $250 million budget gap that has forced it to submit an unprecedented request for $150 million in state aid.<\/p>\n Hudson County\u00a0approved<\/a> $73 million in bonds to build Liberty Science High School late last year, but no construction has begun.\u00a0The school is part of the larger SciTech Scity<\/a> endeavor, which has been in the works for years at a property across from Liberty Science Center.<\/p>\n The plan was controversial back when it was first proposed<\/a> in 2017. The City Council eventually approved a deal to sell the land to Liberty Science Center for $1 in March 2021, with then-Councilman James Solomon voting no on the deal.<\/p>\n The 500-unit Scholar\u2019s Village<\/a> component of SciTech Scity, now known as Aviva, is currently leasing their housing units.\u00a0But a seven-story, 111,000-square-foot incubation space facility called\u00a0Edge Works,<\/a> which is also part of SciTech Scity, has seen little to no work performed despite also holding a groundbreaking ceremony in 2021.<\/p>\n Solomon stated during the recent meeting that the city will engage with Liberty Science Center regarding the site\u2019s future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Solomon recently said during a public meeting that Liberty Science High School is unlikely to be built…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,100897,9,24,63,100898],"class_list":["post-259207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-liberty-science-center","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-rsc-architects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Liberty](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/liberty-science-high-school-jersey-city-2-1024x572.jpg\")
Rendering by RSC Architects via the City of Jersey City.<\/p>\n![\"Scitech](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SciTech-Scity-Phase-One-Jersey-City-aerial-1024x662.jpg\")
SciTech Scity, Phase One. Aerial plan courtesy Liberty Science Center.<\/p>\n![\"Scitech](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SciTech-Scity-Phase-One-Jersey-City-groundbreaking-1024x682.jpg\")
A 2021 groundbreaking for Edge Works, which has not been built, drew dignitaries, including then-New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and former Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop. Photo courtesy Liberty Science Center.<\/p>\n