Margules Properties Buys Five Jersey City Mixed-Use Buildings for $8.5M

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Margules Properties Inc. has purchased five mixed-use buildings in Jersey City for $8.5 million. The company — which owns and manages more than 1 million square feet of development rights in the city’s Journal Square neighborhood — plans to upgrade the buildings to make them more appealing to new retail tenants and millennials looking for apartments near the PATH train. Two of the buildings form a triangle bound by Montgomery Avenue, Orchard Street and Jordan Avenue, in the McGinley Square section of Jersey City. They include a gut-renovated, five-story walk-up building at 52 Orchard Street, with 12 apartments and three stores, and 685 Montgomery Avenue, a three-story mixed-use building with three stores and five apartments. The other buildings include 70 Tonnele Avenue, a 17-unit apartment building; 142 Monticello Avenue, a corner three-story townhouse building with 2,500 square feet of retail space on the first floor and two units with two bedrooms each on the two upper floors; and 2175 JFKennedy Boulevard, a one-story vacant commercial building.