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Editor’s Note
Bearing fruit

I’m as guilty as anyone of overusing words like “transformative” when it comes to major redevelopment projects. But it seems in some instances like there’s no avoiding it. A case in point is a plan for Woodbridge’s Metropark train station, where surface parking lots will become a new office and ambulatory care center spanning nearly 250,000 square feet, as well as 235 luxury apartments and retail space. If you ask me, that seems transformative enough.

Our cover story this month is a deep dive on that project, which Hackensack Meridian Health unveiled in early March alongside Gov. Phil Murphy and a team that includes Russo Development, Onyx Equities and Dinallo Development.

Industrial
Rockefeller Group project in Carneys Point taking shape with construction underway on two-building, 1.1 million sq. ft. logistics center

Two new warehouses are rising along Route 40 in Salem County, under a project by Rockefeller Group that will add more than 1 million square feet to the fast-growing industrial submarket.

Industrial
With redevelopment in sight, KRE Group begins demolition of former Navy complex in Ewing

Demolition is underway at a shuttered U.S. Navy facility in Ewing, where Kushner Real Estate Group plans to build nearly 350,000 square feet of new warehouse and flex space.

Health Care & Education
Central utility plant — crucial piece of New Brunswick cancer center project — now online

A critical feature of the new Jack and Sheryl Morris Cancer Center in New Brunswick is now in place — even with more than a year to go before the highly touted facility opens its doors.

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NJPAC redevelopment underway as construction begins for redesigned outdoor space

Construction is underway for a project that will revamp the New Jersey Performing Arts Center’s outdoor space, in the first piece of a major redevelopment for the Newark theater complex.

Government & Public Policy
EDA to host info session this week at Stockton’s Atlantic City campus for new Emerging Developers Grant program

The state Economic Development Authority is headed to Atlantic City this week to host an in-person information session for its new $20 million Emerging Developers Fund.

Health Care & Education
Atkins launches upgrade, expansion of 70,000 sq. ft. medical office building in Gloucester Co.

Atkins Cos. has kicked off a project that will modernize and add more than 30,000 square feet of rentable space to a medical office building in Gloucester County’s Washington Township.

Industrial
Seagis inks two leases to fill new 178,000 sq. ft. warehouse development in Newark

Seagis Property Group has leased up a newly delivered warehouse facility along Route 21 in Newark after completing two deals totaling nearly 180,000 square feet.

Government & Public Policy
Morristown, Silverman Group reach $5.5 million settlement in lawsuit over scuttled Deloitte deal

Morristown will pay $5.5 million to settle a lawsuit with the Silverman Group after the developer alleged the mayor thwarted a deal to bring Deloitte LLP to one of its properties, instead steering the accounting giant to its eventual home at the M Station campus.

Government & Public Policy
New affordable, supportive housing taking shape near hospitals with help of HMFA program

The first projects have arrived under a state program aimed at creating affordable and supportive housing near hospitals — providing shelter and other services while reducing the burden on local health care institutions — as officials eye continued growth for the program.