The 80-acre site lies just north of the Morris Canal basin with a direct view of Liberty State Park. Owned by developer Peter Mocco, its design capitalizes on great transit connections: two light rail stops, a Water Taxi dock, and a ten-minute walk from the Grove Street PATH stop. Duany claimed that Liberty Harbor North "will most certainly be the best transit-oriented development in the country."

The street layout proposed for the site would be a modified grid, with narrow streets to encourage slow driving, and other retail storefronts. "I am against communities where you need a car as a prosthetic device," Duany said. "The ideal of 21st century planning is 'yes you can own a car, but no you don't have to use it." Duany pledged to reduce residential parking to as low as the market would bear, though financiers typically expect one spot per dwelling unit.

The Liberty Harbor North site represents an exciting departure from Jersey City's redevelopment status quo of sterile gated communities ringed by parking towers and depopulated walking environments. The new development also provides the density that will be well-served by transit, a healthy symbiosis that may be less successful in more isolated developments such as the waterfront Newport City.

Mocco seeks to obtain permits for the project within eight months and begin construction in two years' time.