Joshua Burd
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Joshua Burd, an award-winning reporter and editor, has been covering New Jersey commercial real estate for 13 years. Many industry leaders view him as the go-to real estate reporter in the state, a role he is eager to continue as the editor of Real Estate NJ. He is a lifelong New Jersey resident who has spent a decade covering the great Garden State.

Retail
LA Fitness coming to repositioned Newark retail center

A real estate investor has secured the approvals to build an LA Fitness in Newark, marking a major step forward for its redevelopment of a former Pathmark site.

Retail
NAI Hanson brokers sale of Route 22 gas station

The new owner of a service station in Scotch Plains is set to modernize the 2,000-square-foot property, following a transaction brokered by NAI James E. Hanson.

Government & Public Policy
New Jersey Future announces 2018 Smart Growth Award winners

The nonprofit New Jersey Future will honor major redevelopments in Hoboken, Orange and Trenton, as well as former Gov. James Florio, as part of its annual Smart Growth Awards celebration in early June.

Events
Monmouth students offer vision for Roche site, win top prize at NAIOP competition

A team of Monmouth University students earned top honors recently at NAIOP New Jersey’s annual Intercollegiate Case Study Competition, offering a vision for redeveloping the former Hoffmann-LaRoche campus in Nutley and Clifton.

Finance & Capital Markets
Procida finances three retail centers for $5.86 million

Procida Funding has closed on three loans for nearly $6 million that will support retail centers in Morris, Essex and Hunterdon counties, the Englewood Cliffs-based lender said recently.

Professional Services
C&W hires veteran New Jersey leasing executive

A longtime leasing executive for some of the state’s top landlords has joined Cushman & Wakefield in New Jersey.

Current Issue
Finding new life: Young pharma, biotech firms offer second chance for New Jersey’s legacy R&D space

A growing pipeline of young life sciences firms has offered a second chance for New Jersey’s stock of legacy laboratory space. In the process, the ventures have served as anchors for developers seeking to repopulate large, vacant pharmaceutical campuses with turnkey laboratories.

Health Care & Education
Limited options for pharmaceutical manufacturing

For all of the success in backfilling New Jersey’s legacy lab space, doing the same for vacant pharmaceutical manufacturing buildings has been decidedly more difficult.

Health Care & Education
Cities: The next frontier for New Jersey R&D

As young life sciences companies search for lab and R&D space, Dan Loughlin sees a new frontier emerging in the years to come — urban centers.

Industrial
TJ Maxx among high-profile Q1 industrial deals in New Jersey

Industrial space in and around New Jersey continued to attract household names in the first quarter, as leasing activity remained on a strong and steady pace to start the year.