JERSEY CITY -- The City Council this week will consider a 30-year tax break for a four-story, 20-unit building at Ocean and Bayview avenues that will include three units set aside for homeless veterans.

The $3.7 million project will also include six units set aside as affordable housing plus 11 market-rate apartments. All of the units will be "priority marketed" to veterans, the city says.

Construction is expected to begin within a year.

The deal allows the developer, Debra Tantleff of Tantum Real Estate, to pay 6 percent of the development's annual gross revenue in lieu of taxes for the affordable units and 10 percent for the market-rate apartments.

In a statement Mayor Steve Fulop said the project puts the city "one step closer" to its goal of ending homelessness among the city's veterans.

"Our commitment to providing housing and resources to those who have served our country is one way Jersey City is saying 'thank you' to these men and women for all they have done," said Fulop, a former U.S. Marine.

The council is scheduled to give the 30-year tax abatement an initial vote at its meeting on Wednesday.

The nine-member panel is also expected to approve a new department director, Artie Williams, who will take over for Kevin Williamson as the city's recreation director. Williams, 62, a school district administrator, intended to seek the Ward B council seat in November but dropped out after his name was certified for the ballot.

Williamson is the latest city official asked not to stay on for Fulop's second term. Anthony Cruz, formerly the housing, economic development and commerce director, was replaced by Deputy Mayor Marcos Vigil, while Soraya Hebron replaced the Rev. Reginald McRae as the city's chief diversity officer.

Corporation Counsel Jeremy Farrell will soon step down from that job to lead the city Municipal Utilities Authority full time. The Jersey City Housing Authority is seeking a new executive director to replace Marvin Walton.

The council is also expected to approve a measure guaranteeing $10 million in bonds that the autonomous Jersey City Redevelopment Agency will issue to pay for a county building in Journal Square that the city wants to turn into a new museum and community center.

The council meeting is Wednesday at 6 p.m. at City Hall, 280 Grove St.

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