Health Care & Education

The health care and education sectors are undergoing dramatic changes. So are their real estate needs.

Technology
SJP breaks ground on 370,000 sq. ft. research, office building for Nokia Bell Labs at New Brunswick’s HELIX campus

SJP Properties has started construction on the 10-story, 370,000-square-foot research and office tower in downtown New Brunswick that will house Nokia Bell Labs and mark the second phase of the master-planned Health + Life Science Exchange district.

Education
Students tour new Russo, Hero Development projects to cap off ULI’s UrbanPlan program in East Brunswick, East Orange schools

The developers of new apartment buildings in New Brunswick, East Brunswick and East Orange welcomed students to the properties recently as part of an Urban Land Institute program that exposes high schoolers to commercial real estate planning and construction.

Editor’s Note
System updates

As you’ll read in this month’s cover story, New Brunswick is marking its latest and perhaps most monumental investment in health care with the opening of the 12-story, 520,000-square-foot Jack & Sheryl Morris Cancer Center. Executives with RWJBarnabas Health, the Rutgers Cancer Institute and other key stakeholders unveiled the facility in mid-May, hailing the arrival of New Jersey’s first freestanding cancer hospital and one of only 13 in the country, part of a $1 billion project that has brought top-tier patient care and cutting-edge research labs under one roof.

Health Care
JLL launches marketing for plug-and-play lab suites at New Brunswick’s HELIX district

The team behind the sweeping Health + Life Science Exchange campus in New Brunswick is seeking tenants for a group of prebuilt laboratory and office suites, part of a 574,000-square-foot building that’s slated to open later this year.

Health Care
Health care practice buys 14,000 sq. ft. medical office complex in West Orange, Newmark says

A regional medical practice has acquired a nearly 14,000-square-foot medical office complex in West Orange for $2 million, in a newly announced deal by Newmark Associates CRE.

Health Care
Vital investments: Landmark cancer center in New Brunswick is ‘just the beginning’ of broader real estate, facilities strategy by RWJBarnabas

The new Jack and Sheryl Morris Cancer Center is the centerpiece of a massive investment in RWJBarnabas Health’s physical footprint — one that’s ongoing — highlighting the increasingly important role of ground-up development in New Jersey’s health care sector.

Office
JLL: Owners of Princeton campus eye new lab space with major renovation, built-to-suit option

The owners of a life sciences campus outside Princeton are bringing new laboratory space to the complex as part of a newly launched renovation at one of its six buildings — with the potential for more by way of a build-to-suit opportunity on vacant land.

Government & Public Policy
Warren County debuts new-look library branch after $7 million project designed by DIGroup

The Warren County Public Library has unveiled a newly renovated and expanded branch in Blairstown after more than $7 million in upgrades spearheaded by DIGroup Architecture.

Photos
In the Moment: Onyx cofounders receive Kislak Institute’s Leadership Excellence Award

From left: Cynthia Daly, interim director of the Kislak Real Estate Institute at Monmouth University, presented the program’s Leadership Excellence Award on May 29 to Onyx Equities cofounders Jonathan Schultz and John Saraceno Jr., who received the honor on behalf of their Woodbridge-based firm. The company is behind many of New Jersey’s most complex and high-profile development projects and investments that have repositioned major commercial properties, including the 2 million-square-foot Northeast Science & Technology Center at the former Merck & Co. campus in Kenilworth, as well as the modernization of the four-building, 2.3 million-square-foot Gateway office complex in Newark.

Office
Avison Young named leasing agent for 151,000 sq. ft. Fair Lawn office building

Atkins Cos. has picked Avison Young as its leasing team for more than 151,000 square feet of medical and professional office space in Fair Lawn.