One Washington Park is a high rise office building located on Harriet Tubman Square at 1 Washington Street in

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, Amazon's

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, and Newark Venture Partners.

History

One Washington Park was originally built by the Bell Telephone Company's New Jersey Bell (later

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) to serve as the local network operations center in 1983. Marc E. Berson's Fidelco Group purchased the building for $26.5 million in 2004 and renovated the building to class A office space that became available for move-in in 2005.

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purchased the first 11 floors of the building from Fidelco for $31.5 million in 2006 and invested $51.5 million in renovating them before opening the new business school facility in 2009. In July 2015, Newark Venture Partners, a venture fund aimed to raise $50 million to invest in a select group of start-up tech companies, all of which will be housed in a so-called "accelerator", in a joint effort with

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, which would provide mentorship, and Rutgers, which would provide space.

Tenants

Floor 1 *

* Washington Park Fidelco LLC *

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(One Park Bistro) Floors 2–6, 8–11 * Rutgers Business School Floor 7 * Newark Venture Partners and its accelerator program, NVP Labs * Multiple NVP Labs portfolio companies Floor 12 *

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New Jersey State Council Floor 13 *

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Floors 14–17 *

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company)

Amenities

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* Health Club * Cafeteria (One Park Bistro) * Banking * Conference Center * On-Site Parking

Vicinity

One Washington Park is located at the northern end of Downtown Newark, across from the now closed

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nearby the

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and the city's cultural district which includes the

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, and

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. It is near highways and public transportation, notably Interstate 280 and Newark Broad Street Station, where there is service on

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Morris and Essex and

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s (including non-stop

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service to New York Penn Station) and

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service to

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. The Harriet Tubman Square light rail station is also nearby.

Rutgers Business School

One Washington Park is home to Rutgers' full-time and Executive MBA programs, MQF program, and the Newark undergraduate program. The flex time MBA as well as the New Brunswick undergraduate programs are located on Rutgers' Livingston Campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey. RBS facilities in 1 Washington Park include classrooms, lecture halls, conference rooms, student and faculty lounges, offices, and a University Police substation. The new 3 story RBS entrance atrium features a digital ticker tape, lecture halls, a trading floor, student lounge and study spaces, a rooftop garden, and the Bove Auditorium. One Park Bistro in the lobby of the building is owned by the university and operated by the university's contracted

food service but is open to all tenants with a building ID. In 2011, it was announced the Rutgers–Newark campus would further expand around Washington Park, converting the former

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into graduate student housing.

Audible.com

Audible's offices feature a contemporary open office layout that fosters collaboration and cooperation, an entrance that displays audiobook titles and plays clips of recorded books, an original Amazon door table signed by

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, custom-built furniture in Audible's corporate colors, conference rooms named after notable people and places in Newark's history that can be reserved using a touch pad interface located outside each conference room door, an open staircase that wraps around the Walters-Storyk-designed recording studios used to produce audiobooks, and their own combination cafeteria, lounge, and auditorium space with kitchen.

References

External links

Official website

audible.com building web page

Rutgers building web page

1WP Youtube video
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