Modern Baxter Park Apartments in Newark Open Where Baxter Terrace Once Stood

Today, city officials heralded Baxter Park’s amenities and modern design during a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of the $21.7 million building on a site where a sprawling, dangerous public housing complex with a similar name once stood. “Once a place to avoid and one where few would choose to live, this area has now become an incubator of this city’s revitalization,” said Rep. Donald Payne Jr. (D-10th Dist.), a former Newark councilman. “This building will reinvigorate Newark’s people.”