With tax abatement at stake, the owner of 440 Washington St. was given 30 days to address hundreds of code violations.

Carmel Towers, built in Newark in the mid-1960s, has been vacant for more than a decade, but is undergoing a $35 million rehab and expected to be re-occupied this spring.

The owner of a chilly Newark apartment tower has been uncooperative with efforts to heat the building or address other problems adequately and may lose its tax abatement and control of rent ...