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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Silverman Group bringing 62 new rentals, medical office space to Short Hills site

The Silverman Group has broken ground on a project that will bring 62 new luxury apartments and medical office space to a site just west of the Short Hills train station in Millburn.

Boutique medical office building in Jersey City trades for $7.4 million, C&W says

An investment group has acquired a more than 28,000-square-foot medical office building in Jersey City for $7.43 million, in a newly announced deal by Cushman & Wakefield.

Graf of DIGroup Architecture to receive top honor from industry groups in Queens

A trade association is honoring Howard Graf of Graf & Lewent Architects, an affiliate of New Brunswick-based DIGroup Architecture, with plans to recognize him at an event later this year.

Condo sales in Hillsborough, Green Brook among latest commercial deals by Boniakowski

An investor has purchased a nearly 1,200-square-foot medical office condominium in Hillsborough, in one of two new deals by The Boniakowski Commercial Real Estate Group.