I am a bit puzzled by the sudden stop of the walkway myself.
What exactly are we puzzled about? Over the past ten years every trick in the book has been employed to delay the rescue of the ancient NJ buildings and otherwise frustrate the success of this project. When do we clue in to the pattern? Never?
I'm not one bit surprised to learn about the shenanigans that may be pending re: the transformer situation. We literally have seen it all with this one. Now that the saga has boiled down to a truly unique vision -- a legitimate showcase of innovation re: heritage preservation & revitalization -- I expect the big guns of anti-development absurdity to start firing.
"Those decrepit ~160-year-old warehouses are super precious, which is why we should hold off on saving them for another few years at least. You know, because what's the rush? Let them rot a bit more. What's the worst that could happen?" (cue twisted & misleading news item re: the developers who've been fighting to save the old buildings are somehow responsible for their demise)
1. The walkway ends at the North edge of the building, rather than connecting to the path that goes under the Johnson St Bridge - is that because it's city land? It still seems like there should be the option to connect the walkways in the future?
2. It looks like that silly little parking lot to the North East is still there - is that city-owned as well?
The mission to preserve that useless bit of city-owned property has been an offensive farce from day one.
I just hope the CoV isn't waiting until the very end of this manufactured drama so they can deliberately ruin everything by building something absurd on that site.