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Newport Centre

Location	Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Coordinates	40°43′37″N 74°2′16″W / 40.72694°N 74.03778°W / 40.72694; -74.03778
Opening date	October 1987
Management	Simon Property Group
Owner	LeFrak Organization & Simon family
No. of stores and services	131
No. of anchor tenants	4
Total retail floor area	1,152,599 sq ft (107,080 m)
No. of floors	2 (plus third floor Food Court)
Public transit access	Newport (PATH station) Pavonia/Newport (HBLR station) NJ Transit bus: 9, 63, 64, 68, 86, 126
Website	www.simon.com/mall/newport-centre

Newport Centre, commonly known as Newport Mall, 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 m). The anchor stores are AMC Theatres, JCPenney, Macy's, and Kohl's.

Stores

The mall, with four anchors and 165 stores, partially opened to the public in October 1987 with Sears and Stern's as two of the four anchors operating. The 1,200,000-square-foot (110,000 m) 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.

The mall's official opening was on November 11, 1987, attended by New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean and Senator Frank Lautenberg. On that date, the mall contained 75 tenants, featuring the two aforementioned anchor stores, Sam Goody, Benetton, Eddie Bauer, and Hallmark.

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.

On January 5, 2024, it was announced that Sears, the last location in the state, would be closing at the mall in Spring 2024. The store closed for good on March 3, 2024.

Transportation

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.

Temporary closure in 2020

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

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. "Mall adds ritz to Waterfront". New York Daily News. New York City. October 25, 1987. p. 837.
4. 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."
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. 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."
8. 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."
9. "Jersey City orders Newport Centre mall, Hudson Mall to shut down". March 16, 2020.
10. "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.
11. "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.

External links

• Media related to Newport Centre Mall at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website

• 1987 establishments in New Jersey
• Buildings and structures in Jersey City, New Jersey
• Shopping malls established in 1987
• Shopping malls in New Jersey
• Shopping malls in the New York metropolitan area
• Tourist attractions in Jersey City, New Jersey