The best of The Briefing 2021

Dear readers, As we look ahead to 2022, we’re excited to look back at our top stories of 2021, including our most-read items and a few editor’s picks. You can catch up on our daily “best of” emails below. Happy…

Don Bosco announces new engineering center with gifts from Forgione, anonymous donor

Don Bosco Prep has announced the start of construction for a new robotics and engineering learning center at its Ramsey campus, thanks in large part to the support of developer Joe Forgione.

Atkins sells long-held medical office buildings, tapping demand while seeking new opportunities

West Orange-based Atkins Cos. has sold some of its long-held medical office buildings in the region, capitalizing on surging investor demand for the asset class as it looks for more opportunistic ways to expand its portfolio.

J&L, Sordoni host holiday toy drive to benefit Newark church

A development team in Newark has partnered with a local church to collect and distribute hundreds of toys, art materials and books to dozens of children in the city.

On the money

I’ve spent a decade watching Devco tackle some of the state’s largest, most ambitious redevelopment projects with complex capital stacks and broad coalitions of stakeholders. It’s a topic that we feature in this month’s cover story, which follows a year in which the organization broke ground on more than $1.5 billion worth of development. That makes it all the more timely for us to highlight an operation that is seemingly unlike any other developer in New Jersey.

Faropoint buys 655,000 sq. ft. North Jersey industrial portfolio from Kushner for $133 million

A fast-growing investment firm has planted a flag in northern New Jersey, acquiring a 10-building industrial portfolio in Bergen and Morris counties for nearly $133 million.

Capital City Redevelopment Corp. updates key planning document for downtown Trenton

A state agency has unveiled a new plan that it hopes will spark economic development in and around downtown Trenton.

AvalonBay eyes start of site work at $350 million mixed-use project at Princeton Junction

AvalonBay Communities Inc. has taken its first steps toward transforming an outdated office complex in West Windsor, where plans call for more than 800 units of housing, retail and public space as part of a vibrant destination at the Princeton Junction train station.

SJP, Scotto mark core and shell build-out for M Station East in Morristown

SJP Properties and Scotto Properties have completed the core and shell of a new building in Morristown that will house 110,000 square feet of office space for Deloitte LLP.

Skyline Development, local officials mark opening of 70 condos in North Bergen

Skyline Development Group has taken the wraps off Solaia, its new 70-unit luxury condominium property near the Hudson River waterfront in North Bergen.