The development firm run by Jared Kushner's family sought a 30-year tax break from Jersey City and about $9 million in city-issued bonds for its troubled One Journal Square project, a newly released document shows.

Kushner Companies and partner KABR Group, which want to build twin 56-story towers on a long-vacant lot near the Journal Square PATH station, asked the city for the long-term tax break package in an April application obtained by The Jersey Journal after a public-records request.

The document was submitted two weeks before the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency told the developers, in a letter obtained by Hudson County View, that they were in default of their 2015 redeveloper agreement with the agency, in part because construction on the $897 million project did not start by Jan. 1, 2017.

Mayor Steve Fulop said on Twitter last month that the subsidy request illustrated the developers' "sense of entitlement." A request for comment from a Kushner Companies spokeswoman was not returned.

The deal would be lucrative.

In lieu of conventional taxes, the developer asked to pay a service charge of 5 percent of its annual gross revenue. City records indicate service charges for other abatements hover in the 10 percent range. A 25-year tax break awarded to a Forest City subsidiary building two towers off Marin Boulevard came with a 7 percent service charge.

The amount of requested redevelopment area bonds — the city issues those and the developer repays them, often as part of its payments in lieu of taxes — is $1 million less than the bond package granted to KRE Group for its three-tower Journal Squared project, located on the other side of the PATH station as the One Journal Square site.

KRE Group is run by Murray and Jonathan Kushner, Jared's uncle and cousin. Murray and his brother, Charles, who is Jared's father, are engaged in a long and bitter feud. Jonathan Kushner and Fulop are childhood friends.

The newest request follows one rejected by the city in April 2017, when the project was planned as two 58-story towers and co-working firm WeWork was an investor. Then, the developers asked for a 30-year abatement, over $30 million in bonds and a 9 percent service charge in lieu of taxes. After Fulop said he did not support that deal, the developers pulled the request and indicated they would follow up with a new one.

The city celebrated the One Journal Square project when Kushner Companies purchased the lot in 2014, but once Kushner's father-in-law — Donald Trump — became president, the project stalled. Fulop has said the developers have asked for subsidies that are too generous. The Kushners believe Fulop, a Democrat, sees political peril in approving a tax break for anyone connected to Trump.

Jared Kushner stepped down as the company's CEO when Trump became president. He is a senior presidential adviser.

The city's appetite for long-term tax breaks has also waned. Since Fulop started his second term on Jan. 1, his administration has sent one long-term abatement request to the council for its approval (the council voted to table that abatement and it remains in limbo). In 2017, the administration asked the council to approve eight long-term abatements.

Sources close to the developers told The Jersey Journal that the Kushners believed Fulop's 2017 opposition to their abatement request was solely to help him politically in advance of his November re-election bid and they were astonished that, having won re-election, he remains opposed.

Meanwhile, the developers have learned that the real-estate taxes on the property will double to $791,448 because of the property revaluation.

The council may get a say. Once the abatement application is deemed complete, the council has 60 days to vote on it. City spokeswoman Hannah Peterson said the latest abatement request remains incomplete.

Kushner Companies and KABR Group also purchased 30 Journal Square, the old headquarters of The Jersey Journal.

Terrence T. McDonald may be reached at tmcdonald@jjournal.com. Follow him on Twitter @terrencemcd. Find The Jersey Journal on Facebook.