Overview
Experience
Insights
News
Education and Credentials
Recognition and Community
Overview
Amanda Curley advises property owners, developers and institutional investors on all aspects of land use and real estate redevelopment. She advises them on complex land use, development, redevelopment and permitting matters for residential, commercial and industrial development projects.
Amanda assists clients in obtaining site plan, subdivision, variance and related approvals, and she regularly appears before municipal boards across New Jersey. She is knowledgeable about the state's affordable housing laws and assists developers in affordable housing matters. Amanda also handles cannabis site plan approvals. She serves as the attorney for the Hudson County Planning Board.
On the redevelopment side, Amanda negotiates redevelopment agreements with municipal agencies in New Jersey. She is well versed on the state's eminent domain law and has extensive experience working on condemnation projects throughout New Jersey.
Amanda served as a clerk to the Honorable Maureen B. Mantineo in the Superior Court of New Jersey during her temporary assignment to the Appellate Division.
Experience
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
Secured approval for 40-unit inclusionary housing development in Westfield, New Jersey
Represented redevelopers in declaratory judgment actions for affordable housing projects throughout New Jersey
Secured land use approvals for residential, industrial and commercial clients in Chatham, East Brunswick, Edison, Highlands, Little Falls, Millburn, Mountainside, Montville, Teterboro, Woodland Park and Woodbridge
Secured local site plan approval for national auto chain
Secured local site plan approval for office building for national REIT in Jersey City, New Jersey
Insights
Speaker, May 16, 2023, Roseland, NJ, Garden State Bar Association
Speaker, April 4, 2023, New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education
Co-author, March 24, 2023, Day Pitney Alert
News
Featured, March 11, 2024, NJBiz
Featured, January 18, 2024, Connecticut Law Tribune
Featured, January 18, 2024, Law.com
Featured, January 17, 2024, Attorney At Law Magazine
Featured, January 17, 2024, Law360
Education and Credentials
Education
Rutgers School of Law-Newark, J.D., 2012, Rutgers Business Law Review, Managing Editor
Lafayette College, B.A., cum laude, 2009
Admissions
State of New Jersey
U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
Affiliations
New Jersey State Bar Association, Land Use Section, Director
Hudson County Planning Board, Attorney
Recognition and Community
Recognition
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Chosen for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America Ones to Watch (Woodward/White, Inc.) for Land Use and Zoning Law, 2023-2025; Real Estate Law, 2023-2025