Plan for Centre Pompidou in New Jersey is ‘dead’, local official says

On 12 February 2026, Jersey City mayor James Solomon said plans for a Centre Pompidou outpost in Jersey City, New Jersey, are “dead,” citing the city’s reported $255 million deficit. The most recent proposal, outlined in 2024 under former mayor Steven Fulop, envisioned a 100,000-square-foot museum inside two planned 50-storey towers near Journal Square, with an estimated annual budget of $27.5 million. The project was first announced in 2021 and initially aimed to renovate the 58,000-square-foot Pathside Building with OMA, targeting a 2024 opening, but it became politically contentious. The Art Newspaper noted that the Paris Centre Pompidou closed last September for renovation and is expected to reopen in 2030, while the institution continues to operate other international outposts and develop new ones.

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