Waterfront / Exchange Place

The waterfront of Jersey city is the most talked about in recent years. The redevelopment of the former industrial site has helped invigorate the city. The waterfront is lined with office towers with spectacular views of lower Manhattan. Goldman Sachs has a tower that reinvented the Jersey City Skyline when it was completed. Many people approaching Jersey City from the New Jersey side may think the building is actually part of Manhattan’s skyline.

Unfortunately, partly because of the Newport Mall, there are few shops in the downtown, and on weekends or in the evening there are few people out in the streets. This however is changing as bars and other night spots are beginning to creep into the lower floors of the office towers. Hardly a day goes by when ground is not being broken for a new development.
Closer to City Hall at the western end of the waterfront, several apartment towers are surrounded by parking lots detracting from the pedestrian friendly feel of the other areas of Jersey City, however, new development and the remodeling of several antiquated manufacturing sites might soon change this.