Jersey City Hot Spots

Newport is a 600 - acre master - planned, mixed - use community consisting of retail, residential, office, leisure and entertainment facilities located on Jersey City's Hudson River waterfront. So far $1 billion has been invested, more than 11 million square feet has been constructed and 7,100 jobs were created in New Port.

Thousands of people call Newport home, thanks to the high-rise rental and condominium apartment buildings that overlook the Hudson River. The Towers of America and the Presidential Towers are prime residential space with more than 4,000 units between them. Newport Plaza is the "neighborhood" convenience shopping complex, home to Waldbaum's/A&P, Linens 'N Things and Pier 1 imports.

Newport's Swim and Fitness Center provides leisure and well ness activities. The center houses an Olympic - size swimming poll, sundecks, whirlpools, exercise equipment and aerobics rooms as well as an outdoor tennis complex with lighted courts. The Newport Marina offers amenities for local boaters, including slips for boats and yachts up to 200 feet in length.

Harborside Financial Center

The multibillion - dollar Mack - Cali Realty Corp's office space developer and real estate investment trust, has transformed a former rail yard and piers into a prime office center. Harborside consists of six class A office buildings totaling more than 3.6 million square feet. Tenants such as TD Waterhouse, Morgan Stanley, Fidelity Investments and Forest Laboratories are making their home here. The ongoing development project has created 5,100 jobs with 7,000 more positions planned. The development includes "The Pier" apartments, which feature more than 300 one - bedroom and two - bedroom apartments with breathtaking views of the Manhattan, N.Y., skyline and New York Harbor. Harborside is just minutes away from downtown Manhattan, N.Y., via ferry, Path train or car.

Goldman Sachs

The Goldman Sachs building located at 30 Hudson St. Which was completed in 2004, and now holds the distinction as the tallest building in New Jersey. The building occupies 1.43 million square feet of office space at the former site of the Colgate - Palmolive property. The developer Ceasar Pelli &Associates, the same architects of the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, which is the largest office structure in the world. But this 42 - story glass - clad building with tapered top is 791 feet tall. The structure offers it's tenants a panoramic view across the Hudson River to the lower Manhattan, N.Y., skyline.

Exchange Place

A new development which rises from the Hudson River Banks located at 10 Exchange Place. This 30 - story tower is a tribute to the development at the waterfront. Tenants here include Aegis Insurance Services and Kuehne & Nagel as well as Rabobank.

Grove Street

The International Financial Tower is a 622,00 - square - foot office tower located across from the Grove Street PATH station. The tower's major occupants are Pershing, PNC Bank and NTT Data USA. A new development by the name of Columbus Towers, a Jersey City based developer Panepinto Properties will include a 35 - story, 392 - unit luxury apartment building with 31,000 square feet of ground floor retail and 1,120 parking spaces. The second phase of the project will add two more residential towers and 26,000 square feet of office space.

Jersey City also has had a hotel boom especially with all the new business developments as well as recreational activities taking place, it is not a surprise that Jersey City has seen a hotel boom. Ever since the opening of the Doubletree Club Suites in the late 1990's, these are the following projects taking place.....

- The Courtyard by Marriott (Newport)

- The Candlewood Suites (north of Harborside Financial Center)

- The Hyatt Regency South Pier at Harborside (Exchange Place)

- A Newport full - service hotel is also planned