Newport Centre Mall

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The Newport Center Mall, as seen from the second floor.

The Newport Center Mall, as seen from the third floor.

Newport Centre Mall is a shopping mall in Jersey City, New Jersey. One of eleven shopping malls in New Jersey owned by Simon Property Group, Inc., it is located at 30 Mall Drive West, and is bound by Luis Muñoz Marín Boulevard 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 1,149,147 ft²^[1]. The one-million plus square-foot regional mall is the first of its size in Hudson County.

There are three floors to the mall complex, which houses a number of stores, including anchor stores JCPenney, Kohl's ,Sears, and Macy's. The top floor has a food court and a Cineplex Odeon movie theater complex. The mall is a part of the Newport Complex, which includes the Newport Tower, the third 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 7% to 3.5% (with no sales tax on clothing).

Payment is required to park in the mall garage. The mall is easily reachable via the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail and PATH systems, and is terminus point for jitney buses that travel there from the Northern New Jersey towns of Guttenberg, North Bergen, West New York and Union City.

[edit] Trivia

A shot of the Newport Mall was used in the Seinfeld episode "The Parking Garage", in which Jerry and the gang get lost and can't find their car in the mall parking lot. There are three shots of the mall included, two at daytime and one at night.