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Thursday, February 22nd, 2007 | Dining, Hoboken, Newport | 960 views | Permalink |

Jersey PearlThe New York Post discovers Jersey City. Most interesting tidbit– only 8 units remain in the North Tower of the Shore Club. Tea for TwoJersey Journal shows Janam Indian Tea Shop the love. NJ Transit study to determine light rail’s impactNext week officials ask whether people prefer jet packs or flying cars. Hoboken Southwest […]

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8 Towers, Park, Retail Planned for Metro Plaza

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Friday, February 16th, 2007 | Hamilton Park, Harsimus Cove, Newport | 993 views | Permalink |

The architectural firm Arquitectonica has posted new renderings of the Metropolitan, the 67 story tower planned for the northeast corner of the Metro Plaza shopping center where Pep Boys is now. Included with the renderings on the architect’s website is a short description: “A total of eight residential buildings are planned, which surround a newly […]

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Aqua: Higher, Fewer Units?

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Monday, January 22nd, 2007 | Newport | 1,027 views | Permalink |

The Aqua, one of the next buildings going in over at the northern end of Newport, right down in front of the as yet to be completed Shore Club, might be getting just a little higher. According to one post on the Wired New York Forums, the building is going before the planning board for […]

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Newport Expansion Revealed

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Thursday, December 14th, 2006 | Maps, Newport | 1,227 views | Permalink |

Well its not exactly fresh news that Newport will be getting a few more towers. Both the Aqua and the Ellipse were announced months ago, and The Shore Club is well under construction. However, we took the time to build a map of where the Aqua and the Ellipse will be going up in relation […]

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The Shore At Newport

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Wednesday, November 29th, 2006 | Newport | 1,066 views | Permalink |

The Newest addition to the Newport skyline is the Shore Club. Area residents may soon learn that glass towers are just as opaque as the brick kind, but ruined views aside, these twins are looking pretty good. And for those of you looking for a glimpse of the tower but don’t actually want to go […]

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Sixth Street Condos

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Monday, November 27th, 2006 | Hamilton Park, Newport | 857 views | Permalink |

While we’re still waiting to find out the fate of the embankment, a small construction project is now offering up condos. 204 Sixth Street is just a few blocks from Hamilton park, but with killer views of an old elevated rail line with a fate yet to be decided, who wouldn’t want to live two […]

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The Metropolitan

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Friday, September 29th, 2006 | Newport | 932 views | Permalink |

The massive tower proposed for Metro Plaza, known as the Metropolitan, may rise to 755 feet. That’s a lot of feet. In either case, curbed came a across a photo.

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Pep Boys To Sprout Tower

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Wednesday, September 20th, 2006 | Newport | 808 views | Permalink |

A massive tower has been proposed for Metro Plaza’s Pep boys. This is the first tower proposal for the one story high Metro Plaza, a rather unfriendly set of big box stores more appropriate for the ‘burbs than for a downtown neighborhood.

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Newport Waterfront Video

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Thursday, August 31st, 2006 | Newport | 720 views | Permalink |

Blogger Poli-Gon has a short video of a short walk along the Newport waterfront.

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Newport Turns 20, Still Needs Fake ID

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Thursday, April 6th, 2006 | Newport | 743 views | Permalink |

The Newport area of Jersey City celebrated its 20th birthday recently. The large scale urban redevelopment project broke ground in 1986 and is said to be the largest planned community in the world.

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