When Panasonic opens its new U.S. headquarters in Newark this summer, it will not only be located in the city, but the city will be embedded into the building as well.

During a tour for state and local officials of the unfinished facility yesterday, Doug Allen, vice president of SJP Properties, noted that the lobby floor was poured by a Newark firm and Portuguese limestone will line the walls.

All of Newark, however, will be part of the building through floor-to-ceiling glass, especially on the upper floors. To the north is the unobstructed view of Military Park and the NJPAC campus. To the east is the meandering Passaic River. To the south is downtown Newark, and to the west is the future home of the Prudential office towers.

Mayor Cory Booker yesterday told executives from Panasonic, SJP Properties and Matrix Development Group, “You have my profound gratitude for an extraordinary accomplishment. This is really big for New Jersey, and for its biggest city, this is a catalytic project.”

While parts of Newark may comprise the building, some expect the electronic giant to play a bigger role in the city.

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Councilman Ras Baraka has written several times to Panasonic, encouraging it to hire Newark residents. Others want to be sure the company is a good corporate neighbor.

“In many ways, Newark is very much, if not dependent on, then driven by good corporate citizenship,” according to Rutgers history professor Clem Price. He said he hopes Panasonic takes a lesson from other corporations in the city such as Prudential, PSE&G and Verizon.

“When the corporate sector galvanizes behind Newark, things happen,” he said. “Coporate Newark has helped to elevate civic Newark.”

Peter Fannon, vice president of corporate and government affairs for Panasonic, said the company has already been active in Newark. He said Panasonic has contributed to and supported events at NJPAC, and runs a KidWitness News program in several Newark schools in which students produce news programs.

Panasonic also plans to donate used furniture and equipment from its Secaucus plant to charitable organizations in the Newark area.

“I’m sure we’ll be doing a lot more of those kinds of things in Newark,” Fannon said.

The $200 million, 12-story building is expected to open July 19.

Panasonic agreed to move its U.S. headquarters from Secaucus after the state Economic Development Authority awarded the electronics company $104.4 million under the Urban Transit Hub tax credit program.

Assemblyman Albert Coutinho (D-Essex), who crafted legislation to create the program, said, “This is exactly what the program was designed to do.”

He noted that in the past few years, the Urban Transit Hub program has leveraged at least $1.5 billion of private investment in the city.

Coutinho is pushing a measure to streamline the EDA from five grant programs to two — one of which would make job creation its priority.

“If that moves forward,” he said, “that could generate several hundred million more dollars.”

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Panasonic plans to occupy 10 stories of the 340,000-square-foot-building and lease out the third and fourth floors.

Allen, of SJP Properties, said the façade is broken into “three elements with different types of glass so it doesn’t have the appearance of an old glass box as was done in yesteryear.”

He said the building is expected to be LEED certified platinum for the exterior and gold for the interior.

The site at the intersection of Raymond Boulevard and McCarter Highway had been empty when Cranbury-based Matrix bought it in 2003 for $5 million. Panasonic will lease the site from Matrix and Parsippany-based SJP Properties for 15 years.

When completed, it will be the first new office building with leaseable space in Newark in years.

Panasonic is also planning a 58,600-square-foot technology complex across the river in Harrison, a short PATH train ride away.