A Site for the Condo Association of 1108 to 1112 Park Avenue, Hoboken, NJ
Welcome to the Upper Park Condominium Association! We are pleased to have you as a part of our organization. This website is meant to help you understand how we manage the buildings and resources in the Association. If you are in need of further information, please contact our Manager.
UPCA has established a mailing list to keep unit owners informed about ongoing business, updates and meeting minutes. To receive these announcements via email, sign up here.
Minutes from the September 21 board meeting have been posted in the admin area. Also, please be aware that there's a basement cleanup scheduled for the end of October 2011. Click here to download notice.
Just moved in? Our welcome kit explains how we manage the buildings and puts all kinds of resources at your fingertips. In addition, the kit provides many suggestions that facilitate the smooth integration of new condo members into the existing condo community.
If you have any photographs of the building and the neighborhood, please send them to us so that we can make this website even more appealing.
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The Upper Park Condominium Association is an outgrowth of tenant activism that surfaced in the 1980s. Around 1983, 1108 Park organized its renters to demand better upkeep of the building. Not long after rents were withheld as part of this organization, the owner of 1108 Park, Mary Alice Salvetti sold her building to Murray Connell, a condo developer who also purchased the "sister buildings" at 1106, 1110, 1112 and 1114 Park.
When Connell attempted to "buy out" the Park Avenue residents, the Upper Park Corp. was founded as a non-profit organization. The Corp. arranged meetings with Connell, watched, protested and reported to the city every unlicensed move that his company made. Even so, a number of residents accepted the buy out, but not enough to empty even one building.
Due to the delays, Connell became financially insecure and agreed to sell the three middle buildings (1108 to 1112) to the tenants. The renters then decided that they would create their own condominium association. This is one of the few successful efforts made to convert tenements into condominiums in Hoboken, if not the state, which occurred without undue amounts of relocation due to the efforts of the tenants.
The Upper Park Condominium Association is the successor and the beneficiary of these tenant efforts. It has continued over the years to be run and maintained by its residents with the same concern and care for all. UPCA has created a small community that is a worthy successor of the efforts of the renters in the 1980s.
