Luxury low rise and high rise apartments line the waterfront near the Pavonia / Newport PATH station. The area was once the termination point for numerous railroads, but as America’s rails languished, so did this industrial center. Newport has since become “the largest planned mixed-use development” in the world combining retail, commercial office space, and apartments along Jersey City’s coastline. The city was built primarily by the LeFrak organization, a major Jersey City developer that plans on building perhaps as twenty more towers in and around the area.

The hub of the complex is of course the PATH station. The Newport Center mall connects directly to the station, as does several of the commercial office towers. There are primarily three main plazas. The Commercial office towers are numbered sequentially and with the softening of the office space market, no new towers are planned in the foreseeable future. The oldest of the residential complexes is the Presidential plaza named after American Presidents. Completed during the last ten years are are the Plaza of the Americas including The Pacific and Atlantic Towers.

Most of Newport are “efficient little boxes” consisting of phallic like verticality. However, The Lefrak organization promises future buildings beginning with presently under construction Shore Club will present more unique styling. The Aqua and the Ellipse– two proposed buildings situated near the Shore Club– will meet these new style challenges. In essence, the Shore Club, the Aqua, and the Ellipse will be a more modern Phase III.

Major big box stores in include Target, Staples, Models Sporting Goods as well as the Newport Mall anchor stores Macy’s, Kohls, and Sears. Adjacent to the Newport mall is the Metro Plaza shopping center including a Shoprite, Shoprite Liquor, BJ’s Wholesale, Bed, Bath and Beyond and a Pep Boys auto center slated to become the states tallest residential tower, the Metropolitan.

Below, the Newport center towers along Washington Drive. In the foreground, the Riverside Tower, part of the Plaza of the Americas.

Newport Office Towers

Newport Tower
Newport Center I
Newport Center III
Newport Center IV
Newport Center V
Newport Center VI
Newport Center VII

Newport Residential Towers

Newport Presidential Towers
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
John Adams
George Washington
The Roosevelet
The Lincoln

Newport America Towers
Atlantic Tower
Riverside Tower
Pacific Tower
East Hampton
South Hampton