2017

The creation of this tower comes as Downtown Newark sees a rapid increase in  development for the first time in decades. Located between East Park Street and Center Street, in the Military Park Commons Historic District within the city’s East War, the new Tower will be 26 stories tall, and for it to contain 200 residential apartments. 100 parking spaces would be provided on the premises, and there would also be a conference center, two restaurants/bars, and a gym.

Currently, the property contains a one-story building occupied by law offices and a lounge space. The building facade is slated to remain and be rehabilitated as part of the hotel project. Located across the street from the recently revitalized Military Park and Burg restaurant, the site is situated on the same block as the century-old Best Western Plus Robert Treat Hotel, the city visitors center, the WBGO studios, the New Jersey Historical Society museum, and the upcoming One Theater Square development.

The new Tower would be three doors down from the city's best-known hotel, the Robert Treat, and around the corner from a new TRYP by Wyndham hotel being redeveloped at the old St. Francis Hotel. A walking distance to the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, the Prudential Center arena, and Newark Penn Station.

The Tower would be the latest development project at Military Park, joining the glass Prudential Financial tower across Broad Street and One Theater Square, a 22-story apartment tower at the eastern end of Park Place.

The Military Park Commons Historic District includes:

• 6-acre Military Park
• The New Jersey Historical Society, housed in a 1926 building also on the historic registers
• The 1964 Robert Treat Best Western Hotel and the 1916 Robert Treat Center, an office building in the original hotel structure
• The Military Park Building, a 1925 brick skyscraper on the State and National Registers of Historic Places.

The building would tower above the 165-foot Robert Treat Center to a height just about level with the 266-foot Military Park Building.

The proposed tower's exterior is of glass and steel would stand in contrast to the rest of the block's existing buildings, which are Most of the Georgian architectural style common to downtown Newark buildings of the early 20th Century.