The group wanted the authority to work with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and extend the New York subway system under the river and into the Meadowlands area.

It did not take long for them to find some, in the Meadowlands area outside Newark.

The Meadowlands area, surrounded by 16 million people living within a 20-mile radius, is "the best piece of dirt in the U.S." he said, and the ideal testing ground for innovation.

New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection has responded to complaints regarding the smell, mainly in Bergen County and the Meadowlands area, but with little success.

In the 1960's the company bought thousands of acres of undeveloped land in the Meadowlands area of New Jersey.

And traffic in the Meadowlands area already is nightmarish on weekdays.

The Meadowlands area of New Jersey.

Site preparation work has begun on open acres around the arena to build Xanadu, a major entertainment-retail-office complex that could enliven the entire Meadowlands area economically.

And in the last five years, the agency has greatly expanded bus service from New York City to the Meadowlands area and from Newark to outlying jobs.

AMB owns 3.9 million square feet of space in the Meadowlands area, as well as 2.3 million square feet alongside Exit 8A.