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
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.

Residential & Mixed Use
Pennrose, public officials unveil 84-unit project in Edison

Pennrose and Middlesex County have completed the adaptive reuse of a historic hospital complex in Edison, resulting in 84 new units of affordable senior housing.

Industrial
Duke announces 264,085 sq. ft. lease in Cranbury with lighting company

A lighting manufacturer is expanding its Northeast distribution center footprint as part of a recently announced, 264,085-square-foot lease in Cranbury with Duke Realty.

Industrial
Retail, warehouse property in East Brunswick changes hands

An investment group has acquired a 41,500-square-foot retail and warehouse property in East Brunswick, in a deal announced Thursday by Sheldon Gross Realty.

Top News
Mercer County decision, future of affordable housing in focus at NJBA panel

A recent high-profile court ruling may not have ended the battle over affordable housing in New Jersey, but insiders say it has become an important guidepost in a process that is still filled with uncertainty.