Education

Professional Services
Adding talent: How DMR has embraced intern-to-hire strategy (and more) to grow its team

DMR Architects has leveraged its internship-to-hire strategy and other means of cultivating young talent, maintaining a strong foundation as it supports an evolving project portfolio.

Community
J&L’s latest ‘Build-a-Backpack’ event benefits charter school students in downtown Newark

More than 150 students in downtown Newark will start the school year with new backpacks and classroom supplies thanks in large part to an initiative by J&L Cos.

Education
Petrucci expands education portfolio with acquisition of North Bergen school building

J.G. Petrucci Co. Inc. has acquired a 34,000-square-foot school building in North Bergen as part of a push to expand its footprint in the education sector.

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
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.

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.

Education
Remembering Joe Nicholson, ‘tireless’ and passionate leader of Montclair State real estate program

The state’s commercial real estate community is grieving the loss of Joseph Nicholson, a popular Montclair State University professor who became a familiar face in the industry as he built the school’s real estate program over more than a decade.