Newport Centre (shopping mall)

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Newport Centre
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Newport Centre (shopping mall)
Location30 Mall Dr W
Jersey City, New Jersey, 07310 United States
Coordinates 40°43′37″N74°2′16″W / 40.72694°N 74.03778°W / 40.72694; -74.03778
Opening dateOctober 1987
Management Simon Property Group
OwnerLeFrak Organization & Simon family
No. of stores and services131
No. of anchor tenants 4
Total retail floor area 1,152,599 sq ft (107,080 m2)
No. of floors2 (plus third floor Food Court)
Public transit access BSicon SUBWAY.svg PATH logo.svg Newport (PATH station)
NJT NJ Symbol.svg NJT logo.svg Pavonia/Newport (HBLR station)
Aiga bus trans.svg NJT logo.svg NJ Transit bus: 9, 63, 64, 68, 86, 126
Website www.simon.com/mall/newport-centre

Newport Centre, commonly known as Newport Mall, [1] is a shopping mall in Jersey City, New Jersey, that opened in 1987. It is a major component of the enormous Newport, Jersey City, a mixed-use community on the Hudson River waterfront across from Lower Manhattan. One of eleven shopping malls in New Jersey managed by Simon Property Group, it is located at 30 Mall Drive West, and is bound by Henderson Street on the west, Mall Drive East on the east, 6th Street on the south, and Newport Parkway on the north. The mall has a gross leasable area of 1,152,599 sq ft (107,080 m2). [2]

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The anchor stores are AMC Theatres, JCPenney, Macy's, and Kohl's. New anchor tenants Primark and Dick’s House of Sport are currently under construction.

Stores

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Third floor of Newport Centre

The mall, with four anchors and 165 stores, partially opened to the public on October 14, 1987 with Sears and Stern's as two of the four anchors operating. [3] It was already known that the third major tenant would be a JC Penney store, and the fourth anchor was not announced. [4]

The mall's official opening was on November 11, 1987, attended by New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean and Senator Frank Lautenberg. [5] On that date, the mall contained 75 tenants, featuring the two aforementioned anchor stores, Sam Goody, Benetton, Eddie Bauer, and Hallmark. [6] The 1,200,000-square-foot (110,000 m2) was intended to draw residents from the new Newport waterfront development and the surrounding area, as well as shoppers from Bergen County, where blue laws keep shopping malls closed on Sundays. [7]

JC Penney opened on October 4, 1989, with the fourth anchor still unknown. [8] The shopping mall continued to have only three anchors well into the 1990s. [9] [10]

In 2001, Federated Department Stores closed its Stern's division, and the Newport Centre location was re-branded as Macy's. [11] The mall was originally planning on building the current Macy's as a new anchor alongside Stern's, Sears, and JC Penney instead of using the converted store. [12] The plan went on, and the new store opened on November 6, 2002, moving in the 300 employees of the ex-Sterns/Macy's building. [13] In December 2005, it was announced that Kohl's would occupy the old Macy's building. [14] Kohl's opened on October 1, 2006. [15]

On March 16, 2020, Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop ordered the Newport Centre to be closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [16] The next day, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy backed this temporary closure and ordered all malls in New Jersey to temporarily close as well. [17] It reopened on June 29, 2020. [18]

On January 5, 2024, it was announced that Sears, the last location in the state, would be closing at the mall in Spring 2024. [19] Dick’s House of Sport and Primark are set to open into the vacant Sears space. [20]

There are three floors to the mall complex. The mall is part of the Newport Complex, which includes the Newport Tower, the sixth tallest building in Jersey City. Both it and the Hudson Mall are in an "Urban Enterprise Zone", reducing the state sales tax on purchases from 6.625% to 3.3125% at eligible merchants (with no sales tax on clothing).

The mall is anchored by JCPenney, Kohl's, Macy's, and AMC Theatres. [21]

Transportation

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Three-story parking structure (including the rooftop)

The mall can be reached via the Hudson–Bergen Light Rail's Pavonia/Newport station and the PATH's Newport station. It is also served by New Jersey Transit buses and is the terminus for routes from Jersey City Heights and the North Hudson towns of Guttenberg, North Bergen, West New York, and Union City.

References

  1. ↑ West, Teri (June 29, 2020). "Shoppers test out an emptier, cleaner Newport Mall on reopening day". NJ.com. Retrieved September 2, 2020.
  2. ↑ Newport Centre, Archived September 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine International Council of Shopping Centers. Accessed September 21, 2006.
  3. ↑ "Newport beacon to NYC says 'We're in business'". The Jersey Journal . Jersey City, New Jersey. October 15, 2001. p. 131.
  4. ↑ "Mall adds ritz to Waterfront". New York Daily News . New York City. October 25, 1987. p. 837.
  5. ↑ "Mall opening's one for the books". New York Daily News . New York City. November 12, 1987. p. 439.
  6. ↑ Times, Special to the New York (November 12, 1987). "Smurfs Join Kean at Opening Of Jersey City Shopping Mall". The New York Times. Retrieved August 14, 2021.
  7. ↑ Kennedy, Shawn G. "Real Estate; New Twist For a Mall In Jersey", The New York Times , October 28, 1987. Accessed February 4, 2018. " Close up, however, a formidable low-rise component of this huge waterfront development becomes evident – a 1.2-million-square-foot shopping mall four blocks from the water's edge, still in construction but already open and partly occupied.This Newport Centre mall will have four department stores, 167 shops and restaurants and a nine-screen movie theater.... The new mall, at the intersection of Sixth Street and Luis Munoz Marin Boulevard, has been in limited operation since mid-October when Stern's and Sears, two of the four anchor tenants, as well as a handful of smaller stores, opened to the public."
  8. ↑ "J.C Penney to open at Newport Centre". The Record. Hackensack, New Jersey. September 17, 1989. p. 35.
  9. ↑ "Newport keeps growing". The Jersey Journal . Jersey City, New Jersey. May 28, 1993. p. 39.
  10. ↑ "HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS: NEWPORT CENTRE". The Record. Hackensack, New Jersey. September 7, 1996. p. 41.
  11. ↑ "New digs for Macy's at Newport". The Jersey Journal . Jersey City, New Jersey. November 3, 2001. p. 13.
  12. ↑ "Macy's will replace Stern's". The Jersey Journal . Jersey City, New Jersey. February 9, 2001. p. 1.
  13. ↑ "Macy's opening is just grand for eager shoppers". The Jersey Journal . Jersey City, New Jersey. November 7, 2002. p. 22.
  14. ↑ "Sprucing up Newport Centre". The Jersey Journal . Jersey City, New Jersey. December 22, 2005. p. 10.
  15. ↑ "Kohl's opens at Newport Centre". The Record. Hackensack, New Jersey. October 3, 2006. pp. L8.
  16. ↑ "Jersey City orders Newport Centre mall, Hudson Mall to shut down". March 16, 2020.
  17. ↑ "Coronavirus update: Hospital capacity concerns as cases rise to 267; Murphy closes malls; 1st day of full school shutdown. What you need to know". March 18, 2020.
  18. ↑ "With COVID-19 precautions in place, Newport Centre mall in Jersey City is open today | Hudson County View". Archived from the original on July 3, 2020.
  19. ↑ Levine, Cecilia. "New Jersey Sears Closing", Hudson Daily Voice, January 5, 2024. Accessed January 6, 2024. "New Jersey's last-standing Sears store, located in Jersey City, appears to be closing."
  20. ↑ Fry, Chris (April 16, 2024). "Dick's House of Sport Coming to Jersey City, Is Dave & Buster's Deal Dead?". Jersey Digs.
  21. ↑ Marshall, John. "Newport Centre" Time Out New York , September 26, 2016. Accessed January 6, 2024. "This three-story mall houses the four pillars of department stores—JC Penney, Kohl's, Macy's and Sears—all under one roof."
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