Education

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.

Health Care
HELIX taps Portal Innovations to manage incubator at transformative New Brunswick project

The landmark Health & Life Science Exchange of New Jersey campus in New Brunswick has found a key partner for the project’s incubator space, announcing a pact with Portal Innovations to spearhead a facility for startups and entrepreneurs from nearby universities.

Retail
Net-leased daycare center property in Parsippany sells for $4.3 million, Marcus says

A private investor has purchased the site of a net-leased daycare center in Parsippany for $4.3 million, brokers with Marcus & Millichap announced last week.

Professional Services
DIGroup acquires Queens-based Graf & Lewent Architects

DIGroup Architecture LLC has expanded its footprint and its offerings with the acquisition of Graf & Lewent Architects LLP, an established practice based in Queens.

Government & Public Policy
Rutgers real estate center leader Davis tapped as nation’s chief housing economist

Morris Davis, the longtime academic leader of the Rutgers Center for Real Estate, is joining the White House Council of Economic Advisers as the nation’s chief housing economist.