Office

New Jersey’s office market is evolving by the day, but this fact remains: The state’s location and educated workforce make it a highly desirable place for tenants of all shapes and sizes.

Bergman, Time Equities score coveted BOMA award for Parsippany office campus

The owners of a three-building, 280,000-square-foot office campus in Parsippany have earned a prestigious industry recognition for their management of the property.

Industrial builders flock to Franklin after zoning change, bringing new life to aging office sites

Franklin Township has more than 4 million square feet of industrial space in its development pipeline — most of it in the town’s well-known Somerset section — with a growing list of projects that call for razing and repurposing the sites of outdated office buildings.

Kimmerle touts four recent hires on project, marketing teams

Kimmerle Group has made four new hires in recent months as part of an ongoing expansion of its design, real estate, planning, development and branding practice.

Biotech, insurance firms combine for 12,000 sq. ft. at Warren office building

A life sciences company and an insurance firm have joined the tenant roster of a 107,000-square-foot office building in Warren, in a set of newly completed deals by Newmark.

CBRE’s Babikian promoted to vice chairman, firm’s highest rank for brokers

CBRE has promoted veteran broker Jeffrey C. Babikian to vice chairman, marking the first time that an office leasing professional in New Jersey has achieved the title with the firm.

C&W: Investor buys Princeton-area medical office building for $8 million

An investor has purchased a roughly 25,000-square-foot medical office building in West Windsor for $8 million, in a newly announced deal by Cushman & Wakefield.

Labor force challenges: An intense and growing concern

Fortunately for New Jersey, international migration of the foreign-born is countering the outflow of our domestic population. This trend, however, should not be taken for granted, as immigrants are now heading to other gateways. It is crucial for our economic competitiveness that New Jersey maintain its historic attractiveness for these international arrivals.

Avison Young eyes ‘model of the future’ for project management services, workplace design

Real estate services firm Avison Young is planning a major expansion of its project management platform in New Jersey and nationally after acquiring Studio Eagle, a Springfield-based design and workplace planning firm.

Rock Brook announces new vice president, associate director after recent promotions

The Rock Brook Consulting Group has promoted two veteran members of its engineering team.

Firsthand experience

To say that this month’s cover story is near and dear to me is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but it’s also true. After all, I did spend five years working on the vast stretch of sprawling, landscaped office parks that is Davidson Avenue in the Somerset section of Franklin Township, which plays a prominent role in our February issue. As many of you know, the area is part of a 500-acre corporate business district along Interstate 287 that, in recent years, has grappled with millions of square feet of outdated and mostly vacant office space. Township officials are now meeting that challenge head-on, thanks in large part to a zoning change in late 2020 that paved the way for developers to repurpose those sites as industrial space.