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Government & Public Policy
EDA approves $400 million Aspire tax credit for new RWJBarnabas hospital at Fort Monmouth

Plans to build a new $1.5 billion hospital at the historic Fort Monmouth property are moving ahead with the help of a $400 million tax credit award under the state’s Aspire program.

Editor’s Note
In memoriam 2025: Remembering those we lost in New Jersey commercial real estate

We said goodbye in 2025 to several key figures in New Jersey’s commercial real estate community. Some were industry icons whose careers spanned more than half a century, but all were remembered by colleagues as valued friends and team members. Here is a look back at our coverage and the tributes that poured in from across the industry.

Cover Story
Culture campus: Newark Museum update marks latest milestone as $100 million mixed-use project takes shape around it

New Jersey’s oldest museum has undergone a significant upgrade, solidifying its commitment to serve as a dynamic cultural hub for the region and beyond. It also is considered the cornerstone of the $100 million, blended-use project that’s poised to link two downtown neighborhoods.

Editor’s Note
Building momentum

The Museum Parc project is now taking shape around The Newark Museum of Art, as you’ll read in this month’s cover story, as a development team constructs two new buildings with a combined 250 mixed-income apartments, ground-floor retail and additional cultural spaces such as a vibrant, glass-enclosed gallery. The construction along Central Avenue is now about 50 percent complete, as anticipation builds for full delivery in early 2027.

Professional Services
Stockton, Hofstra library renovations among DIGroup’s latest higher ed projects

The renovation of Stockton University’s main library in Galloway is taking shape as part of a $19.5 million project spearheaded by DIGroup Architecture.

Education
Marcus: Investor buys net-leased Montessori school site in Bergen County for $7.4 million

The site of a new 10,000-square-foot early education center in Bergen County has traded for $7.35 million, according to a listing team with Marcus & Millichap.

Government & Public Policy
EDA backs Liberty Science Center refresh, expansion with $40 million tax credit award

State officials have pledged their support to a planned expansion of the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City — including more than 100,000 square feet of new outdoor exhibition space — under a $40 million project that would also refresh the museum’s indoor offerings.

Government & Public Policy
EDA approves $359 million Aspire award for new residential, commercial tower at New Brunswick’s HELIX campus

A new project that would bring 265 apartments, office and laboratory space and housing for medical students to the emerging HELIX campus in New Brunswick is moving ahead with a newly approved, $359 million tax credit award under the state’s Aspire program.

Professional Services
KSS names five new principals after promotions in Princeton, Philly offices

KSS Architects has announced five new principals, touting them as the next generation of its leadership teams across its New Jersey and Pennsylvania offices.

Education
UCNJ kicks off DIGroup-designed update, expansion of Cranford athletics center in $30 million investment in new campus hub

Construction is underway on a major update of an athletics facility at Union College of Union County’s Cranford campus, in a project designed by DIGroup Architecture.