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Storied architecture firm Kitchen & Associates rebrands as Thriven Design

The award-winning architecture firm long known as Kitchen & Associates is now Thriven Design, under a rebrand unveiled Wednesday by the Collingswood-based practice.

Editor’s Note
Recalibrating

I can point to a stretch of two to three weeks in March 2020 when the market was eerily quiet, as we all adjusted to life at the height of a public health crisis. Otherwise, we’ve had a largely uninterrupted, decade-long run of deal activity, development updates and other happenings that have fueled the engine of New Jersey commercial real estate news. That all figures to continue, but perhaps at a different pace as far as those deals are concerned.

Government & Public Policy
Right at home: NJAA moves to Trenton, with advocacy looming ever larger after COVID crisis

The New Jersey Apartment Association has changed its address, but there’s nothing unfamiliar about its new home in Trenton. The organization and its in-house team, previously based in Middlesex County, have long been a key voice in state politics and policymaking, advocating on behalf of a membership that owns and manages some 230,000 rental units.

Office
Kushner taps JLL as leasing team for 160,000 sq. ft. Florham Park office building

Kushner Cos. has retained JLL as its leasing agent for the nearly 160,000-square-foot office building in Florham Park that has long served as its home base in New Jersey.

Health Care & Education
Atkins completes upgrades of 120,000 sq. ft. West Orange medical office building

Atkins Cos. has completed its renovation of a 120,000-square-foot medical office building in West Orange that it built nearly four decades ago.

Office
Investors sell three-building, 554,000 sq. ft. Hopewell office portfolio for $224 million

An investment group has reaped nearly $224 million from its sale of three Hopewell office buildings totaling more than 550,000 square feet.

Residential & Mixed Use
Adoni hits 60 percent leased milestone at new Franklin Lakes rental property

Adoni Property Group has rented nearly two-thirds of a new boutique apartment building in Franklin Lakes, the developer announced Monday.

Retail
R.J. Brunelli named leasing agent for Brick Township shopping center

The owner of a nearly 250,000-square-foot shopping center in Brick Township has tapped R.J. Brunelli & Co. as its leasing agent for the newly updated property.

Finance & Capital Markets
Birch Group partnership inks $328 million debt, equity package for 101 Hudson purchase

The buyers of 101 Hudson St. in Jersey City have secured $328 million in debt and equity financing for the 42-story, 1.35 million-square-foot office tower.

Residential & Mixed Use
Diversified, Fidelco unveil second phase of 396-unit rental project in Union Twp.

A development team has debuted its second phase of new luxury apartments in Union Township, marking the completion of a 396-unit project less than a mile from Kean University.