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Current Issue
From the publisher: Let us be your voice

I cannot tell you how pleased I am that we are able to bring you this magazine focused on New Jersey commercial real estate. I wanted to give Josh Burd, our editor, the opportunity in the first issue to introduce himself to all of you. Now it is time for you to meet the publisher.

Office
How 300 Kimball set the tone in suburban office redevelopment (PHOTOS)

A decision by State Farm Insurance to vacate 300 Kimball Drive in Parsippany was not just an opportunity for Transwestern’s New Jersey team in 2012. It provided a roadmap for other landlords, investors and brokers to create new value within the state’s glut of suburban office stock.

Finance & Capital Markets
Global appeal: Foreign investors see new opportunity in New Jersey

As an investment opportunity, 800 Scudders Mill Road checked just about every box. A state-of-the-art, trophy office complex that was only three years old. A prime location just outside Princeton. And, perhaps most important of all, a net lease with a blue-chip, global pharmaceutical giant, Novo Nordisk Inc., with a longstanding presence in the market.

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.

Government & Public Policy
Trenton’s pitchman: George Sowa says capital city is open for business

As CEO of Greater Trenton, George Sowa sees a city that has fallen on hard times and has to overcome years of bad press. But Trenton has what it takes to change the narrative, he said, starting with all-important infrastructure such as a transit hub that links to four different rail lines.

Office
NJAR sees new Trenton HQ as ‘a cornerstone project’ for city

NJ Realtors opened its new 20,000-square-foot headquarters on Hamilton Avenue last September, marking the completion of one of the city’s few ground-up construction projects in recent years.

Residential & Mixed Use
Hoboken’s big dig: How Advance used an engineering challenge to lure Trader Joe’s

It took an engineering feat for Advance Realty to build one of Hoboken’s newest mixed-use projects. It also helped the firm attract one of the city’s most highly anticipated retailers.

Residential & Mixed Use
An excavation with challenges upon challenges

For all of the engineering prowess that it took to excavate the site of Advance Realty’s new apartment building in Hoboken, there are some things you just can’t plan for.