Route 440 on Jersey City’s West Side, currently home mostly to car dealerships, autobody shops, and empty lots, hardly looks like a vision of Jersey City’s future. But big things are in the works for the area, specifically the Westview, one of the largest, if not the largest, projects in the Northeast, according to Jordan Franklin, chief operating officer of its developer, Bushburg Properties. The Westview will bring 3,000 units of luxury housing to the area between Route 440 and the West Side Avenue Light Rail Station at Claremont Avenue. The details of the project and how it came to be may i…
