Shopoff Group’s Uptown Newport Village Poised to Break Ground
By Jeffrey Steele, Contributing Writer Uptown Newport Village Rendering 2" src="https://media.atre.yardi.com/1/26176/images/Uptown-Newport-Village-Rendering-2.jpg?w=240&h=150" width="240" height="150" /> Newport Beach , Calif.—The Shopoff Group expects to begin construction this month on a new luxury development called Uptown Newport Village in Newport Beach , Calif. The development, which supplants a pair of obsolete industrial buildings on Jamboree Road near John Wayne Airport , will feature upscale apartments and townhomes, a public park with concert green and retail shops. The Shopoff Group , based in Irvine, acquired the Uptown Newport site with its capital partner DRA Advisors in 2010. Last year, The Shopoff Group secured Newport Beach City Council approval and entitlements for the project. It purchased DRA Advisors’ stake in the project last month. The first of two phases will commence this month and will entail the construction...