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.

Cover Story
Links and logistics: Inside the public-private partnership behind a 4 million sq. ft. industrial hub (and a new golf course)

A unique public-private partnership has taken shape in Old Bridge, where the developer of a new nine-building, 4.2 million-square-foot industrial park on Route 9 has also planned, funded and built an 18-hole public golf course in the township under an agreement with local officials.

Government & Public Policy
EDA to consider $400 million tax credit award for 6.5 million sq. ft. Riverton project in Sayreville

State officials are set to consider a 10-year, $400 million tax credit award that would help advance the massive but long-delayed redevelopment of the former National Lead property in Sayreville, where plans call for 6.5 million square feet of development across a mix of uses.

Residential & Mixed Use
Investors, city officials break ground on 477-unit West Side Square project in Jersey City

A development team has broken ground on a long-awaited project in Jersey City, where it’s slated to build nearly 500 new apartments and retail space that will help link the burgeoning Journal Square and West Side neighborhoods.

Industrial
NAIDB: Tenants combine for 28,000 sq. ft. to prelease new Piscataway industrial buildings

A developer has filled two new industrial buildings in Piscataway with commitments totaling nearly 28,000 square feet, in a set of deals arranged by NAI DiLeo-Bram & Co.

Residential & Mixed Use
Winn, ART-JIUS Enterprises acquire Paterson housing property, launch $7.5 million rehab

A joint venture has kicked off its renovation of a newly acquired, 68-unit affordable housing property in Paterson that it says will result in updated homes for a host of community members.

Residential & Mixed Use
Woodmont hits 75 percent leased milestone at 120-unit Warren County rental property

Woodmont Properties has leased 75 percent of its new 120-unit luxury apartment complex in the Warren County township of Independence, the developer announced Wednesday.

Professional Services
Caryl Communications promotes three team members

Caryl Communications has announced three promotions on its Hoboken-based team.

Editor’s Note
Win-win

It doesn’t take long to realize that golf and commercial real estate go hand in hand, but it was only recently that I learned of a new, rather unexpected connection. It comes by way of Old Bridge in Middlesex County, where the developer of a new nine-building, 4.2 million-square-foot industrial park has just opened an 18-hole public golf club on more than 200 acres. As you’ll read in this month’s cover story, the two properties are roughly three miles apart but are both critical pieces of the plan by 2020 Acquisitions.

Residential & Mixed Use
Procida, Titan Engineers mark debut of adaptive reuse project in downtown Union

A developer has opened the doors to a mixed-use project in Union Township that has brought new apartments, offices and retail space to the site of a historic bank building downtown.

Industrial
Alcamo Capital, Avison Young unveil 262,000 sq. ft. industrial project in Lawrence Twp.

An investment firm has completed its first new building in New Jersey with the opening of a nearly 262,000-square-foot industrial property in Lawrence Township.