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Renting Beats Buying (Or Not)The Times wants you to buy an apartment because its super cheap. Cops Smell Leak Diesel leaks from a tank at the Marina in Newport.
Renting Beats Buying (Or Not)The Times wants you to buy an apartment because its super cheap. Cops Smell Leak Diesel leaks from a tank at the Marina in Newport.
Two weeks after AXA Insurance announced leasing 245,000 square feet at Newport Tower in Newport, the Jersey Journal reminds us once again why newsprint is so last century. Next week, Dewey defeats Truman.
Hoboken Now is reporting that NJ Transit will officially break ground on the long overdue connection between Hoboken and Jersey City waterfront. The walkway, a grand park along the Hudson River that one day could theoretically connect Bayonne to the foot of the George Washington Bridge is being built in pieces. Private developers are compelled […]
NuVision, the communication company contracted to provide services in Newport, announced Shore’s 216 South Tower residents can look forward to poor customer service and sporadic outages. Newport’s other 4,660 apartments already have NuVision service.
New York based AXA insurance signed a 15 year lease for nearly 250,000 square feet of space in Newport Tower, reports CoStar Group. The lease begins next year. Newport Tower is the center piece of Lefrak’s office towers in Newport, standing 36 stories and completed in 1991.
Monaco Towers, a major residential tower on Washington Blvd and Sixth Street, kinda, sorta broke ground last June. After a few pilings found their way into the ground, construction stopped– and the credit market had a melt down. The towers, originally planned as a condominium project has since become a rental project. Hudson Now reported […]
The Journal reports Newport’s skating rink is set to open on Wednesday following the lighting of the Newport Christmas Tree. Beginning at 6:30, skating will be free for two hours. After tomorrow though, skates and rink time will cost $5 weeknights and $6 on weekends. By contrast, skating at Bryant Park (42nd St and 5th […]
MSTI Holdings (NuVisions) Enhances Customer Experience at NewportNewport communications infrastructure improved. Aqua PhotosBlogger Jersey City Construction beats the Newport rent-a-cops and snaps photos of the now 31 story Aqua and the new skating rink.
New to the constructionporn scene is the Jersey City Construction blog. Having sneaked past the rent-a-cops in Newport, the JC Construction blog brings us photos of the now 26 story Aqua building, as well as some shots of the elephant statues in front of the Shore Club.
The Lefrak family may have built working class digs in Queens, but the LeFraks, after restoring the upper case F are focusing on luxury markets like Newport, reports the NY Times. But more interesting is LeFrak’s aversion to debt; “There is little or no debt on the family’s holdings: 22 million square feet of residential […]
