Bayonne's Harborview Marketplace shopping center welcomes Starbucks

JMF Properties, RD Management, Bayonne mayor and others celebrate with ribbon cutting

Linda Lindner//October 22, 2020

Bayonne Mayor Jimmy Davis, fellow municipal officials, and developers JMF Properties and RD Management joined Starbucks representatives on Oct. 19 to celebrate the debut of the coffeehouse at Harbor View Marketplace, where the store’s full menu of beverages and food items is now available to both walk-in and drive-thru customers.

“On behalf of the City of Bayonne, I would like to welcome Starbucks to our community,” Davis said. “The decision by Starbucks to locate here demonstrates that Bayonne is a desirable market in the metropolitan area. We are happy that Bayonne is providing Starbucks with one of its carefully chosen locations.”

Located at 26 Goldsborough Drive, just off of Route 440, Starbucks is the newest business to open at Harbor View Marketplace, the new shopping center at the former Military Ocean Terminal at Bayonne that is delivering 240,000 square feet of retail space to the Bayonne Waterfront. It joins Costco Bayonne, a 157,000-square-foot store and 18-pump gas station, that opened last March.

Other businesses slated to open soon at the complex include LA Fitness, Lidl grocery, CVS Pharmacy, and Posh Nails & Beauty Lounge.

From left, Starbucks District Manager Kevin Damon, Starbucks employee Alexa Mark, Starbucks employee Febrera Garcia, Bayonne Third Ward Council Member Gary LaPelusa, Starbucks Store Manager Chris Paone, Bayonne Council Member At-Large Juan Perez, Hudson County Freeholder Kenny Kopacz, Kelsey Kopacz, JMF Properties Founder and Principal Joseph Forgione, Bayonne Mayor Jimmy Davis, Bayonne City Council President Sharon Ashe-Nadrowski, and BCB Community Bank Vice President of Marketing Pam Sclafane celebrate the grand opening of Starbucks at Harbor View Marketplace in Bayonne on Oct. 19. - JMF PROPERTIES — From left, Starbucks District Manager Kevin Damon, Starbucks employee Alexa Mark, Starbucks employee Febrera Garcia, Bayonne Third Ward Council Member Gary LaPelusa, Starbucks Store Manager Chris Paone, Bayonne Council Member At-Large Juan Perez, Hudson County Freeholder Kenny Kopacz, Kelsey Kopacz, JMF Properties Founder and Principal Joseph Forgione, Bayonne Mayor Jimmy Davis, Bayonne City Council President Sharon Ashe-Nadrowski, and BCB Community Bank Vice President of Marketing Pam Sclafane celebrate the grand opening of Starbucks at Harbor View Marketplace in Bayonne on Oct. 19. – JMF PROPERTIES

“This is a perfect example of what can happen when the City and a developer work together toward a common goal,” said JMF Properties Founder and Principal Joseph Forgione. “The City of Bayonne, under the leadership of Mayor Davis, has been instrumental in helping us deliver businesses like Costco and Starbucks to the community in a timely manner. Starbucks is an excellent fit for the retail mix we are curating here with our partner RD Management and we believe they will be very successful in this location.”

Harbor View Marketplace is located in an urban enterprise zone on a stretch of the Bayonne waterfront – a heavily trafficked area with 37,000 cars passing daily – and 500 yards from Exit 14A on the New Jersey Turnpike. The Hudson-Bergen Light Rail 34th Street Station is across the street, making the center easily accessible by transit.

Located directly behind Harbor View Marketplace, Cape Liberty Port has the second-largest passenger volume among Northeast and Mid-Atlantic coast ports and recently completed a $50 million expansion that is expected to increase passenger volume to 600,000 per year.

In addition to Harbor View Marketplace, JMF Properties, RD Management and Accurate Builders and Developers are developing a multifamily residential community on Military Ocean Terminal steps from the new Starbucks. Known as ScenicVue, the residential development will feature 651 luxury rental residences with upscale amenities, rooftop terraces, walking paths and sweeping views of the Bayonne Golf Club from many of the units.

A new commuter ferry terminal, offering service to Manhattan, is under construction near the property and will offer future renters a convenient way to cross the Hudson River steps from their front door.