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.

Residential & Mixed Use
How a Chinese construction giant is planting a flag in New Jersey

For a company that had been in the U.S. for nearly three decades, it was only about four years ago that the conglomerate known as China State Construction Engineering Corp. suddenly caught the attention of New Jersey’s commercial real estate market.

Finance & Capital Markets
Panasonic tower put Newark ‘on the radar of international investors’

Far Eastern investors have accounted for most of the high-profile deals over the last year or so, but it was a Middle Eastern platform, KFH Capital Investment Co., that made the biggest splash in the fourth quarter of 2016.

Health Care & Education
From the ground up: Leaders of Rutgers CRE program eager to build on early progress

Leaders of the Rutgers Center for Real Estate aim to make it the top academic and research program of its kind, one that helps improve the industry and provides a link between the state’s top real estate firms and the next generation of professionals.

Professional Services
Snow business: When winter strikes, many top N.J. property owners call on this firm

Lawns by Yorkshire is one of the largest businesses in the state when it comes to snow removal, with a book of business that includes more than 250 acres of parking lots across commercial and residential properties.

Office
Saxum grows portfolio with two downtown acquisitions

A development and investment firm has made new acquisitions in Middlesex and Morris counties, its latest under a recently launched fund for repositioning downtown commercial sites.

Retail
Restaurant moves to Woodbridge retail center

A family-owned Pakistani restaurant has leased 6,800 square feet in Woodbridge after outgrowing its space in a neighboring town, Levin Management Corp. said Friday.

Retail
Dave & Buster’s coming to Woodbridge, mayor says

Woodbridge Mayor John McCormac announced that Dave & Buster’s will open a location this November at the Woodbridge Center mall. Construction is set to begin this month on the 34,000-square-foot store, which will occupy an upper level formerly used by Sears, now that retailers in the space have been relocated within the mall.

Residential & Mixed Use
A bird’s-eye view of Journal Squared (VIDEO)

Leasing is set to begin at the mixed-use, potentially transformative development known as Journal Squared, but you don’t need a tour to see the Jersey City tower up close.

Finance & Capital Markets
Financing allows firm to reposition Totowa industrial site

HFF has brokered a $9.5 million loan to help a developer refinance and complete its redevelopment of a Totowa industrial building, the firm announced Thursday.

Industrial
C&W inks three industrial sales in northern, central N.J.

Five industrial buildings in Newark, Linden and Edison have changed hands in a series of deals arranged by Cushman & Wakefield, the firm said Thursday.