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] 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
Third floor of Newport Centre
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.[3] 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.[4]
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).
On January 5, 2024, it was announced that Sears, the last location in the state, would be closing at the mall in Spring 2024.[8] The store closed for good on March 3, 2024.
Dick’s House of Sport and Primark moved into the vacant Sears space. Both floors of the former Sears are being renovated with Primark set to open in winter 2025 and Dick’s House of Sport in fall 2025.
Transportation
Three-story parking structure (including the rooftop)
On March 16, 2020, Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop ordered the Newport Centre to be closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[9] The next day, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy backed this temporary closure and ordered all malls in New Jersey to temporarily close as well.[10] It reopened on June 29, 2020.[11]
^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."
^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."
^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."
