Technology

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.

Technology
CoreWeave begins $1.8 billion data center project in Kenilworth, landing first award under new EDA tax credit program

CoreWeave has started construction on a nearly $1.8 billion data center in Kenilworth with the help of what will be a five-year, $250 million tax credit award under a new state program.

Technology
Owners of NEST campus in Kenilworth launch major update of common spaces, amenities

The team behind the high-profile Northeast Science and Technology Center in Kenilworth have kicked off a multimillion-dollar renovation of the site’s anchor building, with plans to create 75,000 square feet of new amenities and common spaces for current and future tenants.

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.

Health Care
First phase of New Brunswick’s HELIX campus enters final stages of construction (VIDEO)

The landmark HELIX NJ project is approaching another milestone, with only six months to go until the district’s first building makes its full-fledged debut in downtown New Brunswick.

People
Brown joins IRG as vice president, director for Pearl River innovation campus

The owner of a 2 million-square-foot research campus just north of New Jersey has tapped commercial real estate veteran Greg Brown as the property’s top executive.

Government & Public Policy
Sherrill, Ciattarelli make their case on permitting, energy as NAIOP welcomes gubernatorial hopefuls

Speaking to a room of New Jersey commercial real estate leaders, the state’s two gubernatorial candidates seemed to be in line on the issues that mattered most to the sold-out crowd.

Exactly how they’d address those issues is where Mikie Sherrill and Jack Ciattarelli differ — or at least how they hope to distinguish themselves from each other. That was evident Monday during a program hosted by NAIOP New Jersey, where the candidates presented on key topics such as permitting, energy and taxes, among many other policy areas that figured to resonate with property owners and their professionals.

Technology
Coming together: Collaboration, partnership in focus as Nokia Bell Labs tower breaks ground in New Brunswick

The groundbreaking for Nokia Bell Labs’ new research and office tower in New Brunswick was a celebration of not just the company’s legacy of collaboration in New Jersey, but the public-private partnerships that have brought the project to life.

Office
Nokia Bell Labs tower set to rise in downtown New Brunswick as executives, officials break ground on new 370,000 sq. ft. facility

The steel frame of a new landmark tower for Nokia Bell Labs will be visible in downtown New Brunswick as soon as next spring, with construction well underway on a facility that will be the technology giant’s home for decades to come.

Technology
JLL: Banking, AI fueling continued growth of New Jersey data center market, despite hurdles

Despite rising energy costs and major capacity shortfalls, New Jersey continues to draw interest as a destination for new data center development.