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.

Finance & Capital Markets
Eastern Union brokers $69.5 million refinancing for 11-building portfolio

An investor has refinanced an 11-building apartment portfolio in New Jersey and the Bronx, following more than $69 million in transactions arranged by Eastern Union Funding.

Professional Services
Longtime area consulting expert joins Colliers

Colliers International has hired a veteran real estate consultant in New Jersey and the region as a senior managing director with its New York Tri-State platform.

Office
SJP recapitalizes well-known Bridgewater office campus with P3RE

SJP Properties has teamed with a growing real estate investment firm to recapitalize a portion of Somerset Corporate Center, its 1.2 million-square-foot, Class A office campus in Bridgewater.

Office
NKF: Bank recommits to N.J. headquarters in East Brunswick

PNC Financial Services has renewed and extended the lease at its 90,000-square-foot New Jersey headquarters in East Brunswick, in a deal announced by Newmark Knight Frank.

Industrial
Developer breaks ground on Woodbridge distribution center

An investment manager has kicked off construction at more than 240,000 square feet of new industrial space in the Avenel section of Woodbridge, the firm said Tuesday.

Industrial
Tulfra sells West Caldwell industrial building for $7.8 million

Tulfra Real Estate has reaped nearly $8 million from the sale of a fully leased, 62,200-square-foot industrial building in West Caldwell, capitalizing on what it says is a growing demand for space in the Fairfield-area submarket.

Finance & Capital Markets
Mixed-use portfolio in Newark secures $3.7 million bridge loan, Procida says

Procida Funding has closed a $3.66 million bridge loan secured by a four-building, mixed-use portfolio across the street from Rutgers University in downtown Newark, the firm announced.

The Rundown
Signs of life at Kushner Cos. project in Journal Square, report says

Local officials in Jersey City are set to consider a revamped version of the high-rise project at the center of a controversy earlier this year involving the family of Jared Kushner, a published report said.

Retail
HFF: Well-known Jersey Shore retail center refinances for $43.6 million

The owner of a high-end, 148,000-square-foot retail center in Monmouth County has refinanced for $43.6 million, in a transaction arranged by brokers with HFF.

Guest Columns
Long-term issues need long-term solutions

When the drafters of the federal and New Jersey constitutions established the length of terms for elected leaders from two to six years, they probably thought those were the right lengths to enable those leaders to focus on both short- and long-term issues. Unfortunately, most of the focus has been on the short term with little planning for the longer-term issues. Long-term has come to mean getting past the next election.