Maintaining a healthy level of connectivity is critical. This is why we need to continuously invest in our infrastructure to keep things like our economy and lives moving. People, goods, cars, trucks, trains, data, energy, drinking water and sewerage need to get places in a timely way. Where and how we live, work and play are influenced by access to these places.
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At long last: Beachfront, downtown projects move ahead in Jersey Shore town
More than a decade after the debut of the landmark, mixed-use Pier Village complex, Long Branch has other developments under construction or in the pipeline along its oceanfront, including new luxury condominiums. And along Lower Broadway, a developer is in the midst of demolishing dozens of blighted properties, following the resolution of what had been a fierce legal battle over back taxes and entitlements. The demolition is now clearing the way for a mixed-use project that could begin to transform the downtown as soon as next year.
FEM project brings a taste of South Beach to Long Branch
Mimi Feliciano recalls spending the early part of her college years in Miami — and how it wasn’t long before she fell in love with everything from the architecture to the lifestyle. It’s one reason why she and her firm, FEM Real Estate, have grand designs of bringing a taste of South Beach to her home state with its new project, South Beach at Long Branch.
Berger’s rehab project looks to tap into Newark’s growing hotel market
As Miles Berger knows all too well, transit access and proximity to Manhattan have been longtime drivers of Newark’s office market. He also knows that those benefits play a major role in the city’s lesser-known tourism sector. It’s why Berger is taking a major step to upgrade his hospitality portfolio in downtown Newark: a gut renovation of a 90-year-old hotel that will result in a new state-of-the-art property near the city’s Military Park.
The rebirth of the suburbs: The impact of aging millennials and driverless car technology
This multiyear transformation of our downtown areas has led to speculation that the single-family, suburban model of development is dead. In this article, I will make a different prediction. Today, I predict that the next great housing boom will be in the suburbs. The millennials will move out of the city and into the suburbs and will commute farther distances, by car, than previous generations.
In Warren, Vision looks to build on success of amenity center concept
For some tenants at The Crossings at Jefferson Park, the biking and walking trails that weave through the Whippany office campus have become a modern-day meeting space, as have the food court and lounges inside the property’s new amenity center. That’s according to executives with Vision Real Estate Partners, who are now looking to replicate and build on that success at another suburban office campus in New Jersey.
JLL: Retail sectors blossom in northern New Jersey
New Jersey has a strong retail environment due its population density, which is higher than the national average. Retailers are also attracted to the Garden State’s proximity to New York, which is one of the world’s retail capitals. A large percentage of New Jersey’s population is in Northern New Jersey and retailers targeting consumers have plenty of space options along Interstate 95, The Garden State Parkway and U.S. Route 1/9.
