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New Butterfly Garden Ribbon Cutting!

New Butterfly Garden Ribbon Cutting!

The Summit Park Line Aerial Overview

The Summit Park Line Aerial Overview

Park Line New Weather Station

Park Line New Weather Station

Krispy Kreme Fundraiser!

Krispy Kreme Fundraiser!

The Bridge is Up!

The Bridge is Up!

Parkline Next Steps

Parkline Next Steps

We Did It!

We Did It!

Help Us Complete The Challenge!

Help Us Complete The Challenge!

Summit Park Line Receives $30,000 Rail Trail Conservancy Grant

Summit Park Line Receives $30,000 Rail Trail Conservancy Grant

The Park Line Receives Approval for Completion

The Park Line Receives Approval for Completion

Summit Park Line Foundation is Awarded Grant from Bristol Meyers Squibb

Summit Park Line Foundation is Awarded Grant from Bristol Meyers Squibb

The Park Line Further Beautified

The Park Line Further Beautified

Opportunity to Sponsor A Bench on the Park Line

Opportunity to Sponsor A Bench on the Park Line

Economic (and other) Benefits of Trails, Greenways and Open Space

Economic (and other) Benefits of Trails, Greenways and Open Space

Rails to Trails Conservancy President Shares A Personal Story

Rails to Trails Conservancy President Shares A Personal Story

How Greenway Trails Affects The Value Of Properties

How Greenway Trails Affects The Value Of Properties

'We Have a Lot of People Guiding Us': Summit Council Formally Approves Broad Street West Redevelopment Plan

‘We Have a Lot of People Guiding Us’: Summit Council Formally Approves Broad Street West Redevelopment Plan

1st Issue of Summit Living, Featuring the Lord Family, Speaks to the Park Line

1st Issue of Summit Living, Featuring the Lord Family, Speaks to the Park Line

Fay Matheson Award

Dr. Robert Rubino presented with Fay Matheson Award

Cyclists and Pedestrians Complete Our Transportation System

Cyclists and Pedestrians Complete Our Transportation System

Community Workshop Huge Success!

Community Workshop Huge Success!

Parks Are A Necessity: Recent Article in the NY Times

Parks Are A Necessity: Recent Article in the NY Times

Overlook's Employee Wellness Group Takes a Walk!

Overlook’s Employee Wellness Group Takes a Walk!

The Summit Common Council Approves Park Line MOU!

The Summit Common Council Approves Park Line MOU!

Public Work Shop for the Summit Park Line Dec. 6, 2018 7pm, 1000 Summit Ave

Public Work Shop for the Summit Park Line Dec. 6, 2018 7pm, 1000 Summit Ave

Revealing The Rock Wall

Revealing The Rock Wall

Summit Park Line Project Receives $200K Matching Grant

Summit Park Line Project Receives $200K Matching Grant

Philly's First Phase of an Elevated Rail Park Opens June 14

Philly’s First Phase of an Elevated Rail Park Opens June 14

The Trail Along Morris Ave

The Trail Along Morris Ave

Dr. Robert Rubino on the Steps of the Trail at Upper Overlook Road

Dr. Robert Rubino on the Steps of the Trail at Upper Overlook Road

Denman Neighbors Connect With Stone Steps

Denman Neighbors Connect With Stone Steps

Dr. Robert Rubino & Board Member Jay Brinkerhoff at the Bridge Abuttment

Dr. Robert Rubino & Board Member Jay Brinkerhoff at the Bridge Abuttment

The ParkLine - In The Snow

The ParkLine – In The Snow

The Park Line Is Paved

The Park Line Is Paved

Eagle Scout Of Honor

Eagle Scout Of Honor

Park Line Presentation to Summit Council, December 19, 2017

Park Line Presentation to Summit Council, December 19, 2017

Resolution Passed By The Union County Freeholders

Resolution Passed By The Union County Freeholders

A Trail Grows On The Summit Park Line

A Trail Grows On The Summit Park Line

“Coming Soon” Signs Decorate The Landscape of Phase I of the Park Line

A 3D diorama of the Park Line

A 3D diorama of the Park Line

A great afternoon at the Park Line as stairs are added to a steep part of the path.

A great afternoon at the Park Line as stairs are added to a steep part of the path.

Letter of Support for the Park Line

Sundays at the Summit Farmer's Market.

Sundays at the Summit Farmer’s Market.

Drs. Susan and Robert Rubino walk the Park Line with their children.

Drs. Susan and Robert Rubino walk the Park Line with their children.

Boy Scouts Build A Kiosk At The Summit Park Line

Boy Scouts Build A Kiosk At The Summit Park Line

After

Eagle Scouts Create The Summit Park Line Path

David Burwell, who saw bike paths where trains once ran, passes away at 69

David Burwell, who saw bike paths where trains once ran, passes away at 69

Progress: The Park Line Starts To Come To Fruition

Progress: The Park Line Starts To Come To Fruition

The first snow fall: View from the Park Line

The first snow fall: View from the Park Line

Center For Active Design: The Importance Of Execution

How Did An Obese City Lose A Million Pounds?

How Cities Are Making Their Residents More Active

A Glorified Sidewalk, and the Path to Transform Atlanta

A Glorified Sidewalk, and the Path to Transform Atlanta

Summit Park Line Highlighted In Summit Times

Summit Park Line Highlighted In Summit Times

Prices of apartments along the High Line have gotten a measurable boost from their proximity to the popular West Chelsea park. Photo: Kevin Hagen for The Wall Street Journal By Josh Barbanel Aug. 7, 2016 6:22 p.m. ET The High Line enthralls thousands of tourists every day who walk through its mix of industrial ruins and flowers on track beds above the streets of Manhattan’s West Side. But new data show that this aerial park has also helped transform real-estate values for apartment owners in the surrounding blocks since its first section opened in 2009. Resale values of properties already nearby rose a cumulative 10 percentage points faster than areas only a few blocks farther away. It is the “High Line’s halo effect,” according to the report by real-estate website StreetEasy, the first in a series of studies it is planning on the impact of New York City icons on their neighborhoods. While resale prices in many other Manhattan neighborhoods have been tapering off, the report said they have continued to rise near the High Line. ENLARGE A pedestrian photographs 245 Tenth Ave. along the High Line. Photo: Kevin Hagen for The Wall Street Journal Twenty apartments there have sold for $10 million or more since 2009. The median price of condos above 20th Street in the High Line neighborhood topped $6 million in the 12 months ending in May, mainly because of sales at 500 West 21st St. along the High Line. More are on the way: 11 developments with 155 apartments are under construction, and nine more are planned with 751 apartments or hotel rooms, according to Halstead Property Development Marketing. “Pricing exceeded a lot of people’s expectations,” said Stephen Kliegerman, president of the Halstead firm. Condo prices have risen to between $2,000 and $3,000 a square foot from about $1,000 in 2009, he said, and the units have become more elaborate in their architecture and finishes. The High Line was part of a larger development effort that included the 2005 rezoning of West Chelsea, then a decaying industrial area that had begun to attract art galleries. The rezoning preserved some older industrial buildings and allowed residential development in others. It allowed the transfer of air rights along the High Line and offered bonuses for creating stair and elevator access to the planned park. StreetEasy’s study used a proprietary price index to track repeat sales at the first two sections of the High Line that were built. The first, south of West 20th Street, opened in 2009, and the second, extending north to West 30th Street, opened two years later. The third section, from West 30th to West 34th streets, opened in 2014. Resale prices of homes bordering the first section rose by 8.9% more than those two blocks east, while resale prices bordering the second section rose 12.8% more. At the Spears Building on West 22nd Street, an 1893 manufacturing structure converted to condominium lofts a century later, apartment 3E’s floor-to-ceiling windows look out onto the High Line. The 1,600-square-foot apartment sold for about $350,000 in 1997, but by 2008, when the High Line was under construction, it sold for $2.2 million. In March, it sold again for $3.15 million, a 40% premium since 2008. “The High Line changed the dynamic of the neighborhood,” said Michael Chapman, a broker at Stribling & Associates who represented the sellers in the most recent sale, “making it more accessible to more people.” Now there are more restaurants and services coming to the neighborhood, he said, while it “still has that kind of hipness of the West Chelsea area.” Some of the resale buildings included in the High Line study are luxury condos that went up under the new zoning at the height of the real-estate boom. At Highline 519 on West 23rd Street, an eighth-floor apartment sold for $2.85 million in 2014, up 16% from its first sale in 2007. Leonard Steinberg, president of Compass, a Manhattan brokerage, said that the potential value of real estate near the High Line hasn’t yet been realized. That will come, he said, when Hudson Yards, at the northern end of the park, is complete. “West Chelsea hasn’t been completely bracketed yet,” he said. “People have to be a little more patient. The upside to West Chelsea is not realized.” Write to Josh Barbanel at josh.barbanel@wsj.com

The High Line’s ‘Halo Effect’ On Property

Park Line Receives Perpetual Access License Agreement From The State To Build The Park Line

Union News Daily: Rails to trails for train tracks in Summit

Summit Park Line Feasibility Study - Full Presentation

Summit Park Line Feasibility Study – Full Presentation

View of NYC from the Summit high line on a beautiful fall day.

View of NYC from the Summit high line on a beautiful fall day.

Feasibility presentation on October 13th at City Hall

Feasibility presentation on October 13th at City Hall

Summit High Line

Summit High Line “Crown Jewel”