Journal Squared

Client The KRE Group, National Real Estate Advisors
Location Jersey City, NJ
Status Completed in 2024

Journal Squared is a three-tower mixed-use residential development that connects directly into Jersey City's PATH train.

Journal Squared is a 2.3 million sq.ft. residential development adjacent to the Journal Square Transportation Center in Jersey City and was one of the first large-scale high-rise residential developments to take advantage of the area's rezoning. The project includes three residential towers with 1,840 rental apartments, residential amenities, and ground floor retail. A new pedestrian plaza has been created which offers space for community events such as a weekly farmers market. Magnolia Avenue, which terminates at the site, has been redesigned to extend into the site as a shared street.

The massing of the towers steps back as it rises, clad with a grid of white metal panels and punched windows. Thin metal panels in various shades of blue flag the windows on alternating sides, while several large vertical strips of glazing run through the tower, breaking down the larger forms.

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The site included surface parking and a handful of low-rise buildings.

As seen in this 2013 photo, the site abuts the Journal Square Transportation Center which includes a ten-story tower and a two-level parking facility. Low to mid-rise brick buildings run along Pavonia Avenue to the north of the site.

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Scope

Design Architect Architect of Record Interior Designer

Project Team

Gary Handel Amar Sen Jonathan Morefield Soyae Baek Solène Clavel Seth Riseman Ankur Verma Emil Stojakovic Ignacio Iratchet Amaory Portorreal Ann Chai Beidi Zhan Carolina Clemente Constance Chang Eric Tan Erica Alonzo Hyungjoon Kim Joy Liu Mark Lien Matthew Haseltine Nubia Garcia Peter Travis Robert Nagy Sina Mesdaghi Tamara Hinojosa Wook Kang Yuan-Yu Chen

Collaborators

Associate Architect - Hollwich Kushner Associate Interior Designer - Major

Photography

Michael Moran QuallsBenson Mike Van Tassell Lester Ali