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of its overall revenue. Its real
estate and construction team is its
largest practice group with some 30
dedicated professionals, Narcise said,
although as many as 100 people at the
fi rm can touch a real estate account.
as lounge-style furniture, a coffee
bar and a spacious “town hall” with
a kitchen, multiple seating options
and games such as ping pong and
shuffl eboard. And, aside from the
abacus wall in the lobby, the space
Its move to Florham Park followed
also has custom wallcoverings with
antique letterpress numbers to refl ect
37 years in Livingston, at 354
Wiss’ roots in accounting.
Eisenhower Parkway, where the fi rm
had reached capacity on the single
fl oor that it occupied, Narcise said.
And while it could have expanded
to the fl oor above and stayed at a
location that was comfortable for “us
old-timers,” its leadership recognized
Narcise calls the space “a
differentiator for attracting talent,”
especially in an industry that has
grappled with dwindling interest
among students and a dearth of
professionals under 40.
that it was “time to look around.”
“In the other place, we said all the
“We really needed something that
right words, but the space didn’t
was going to be a wow factor,” said
match where we were headed as a
Wiss recently unveiled a new staircase at its Florham Park offi ce to punctate its
Narcise, who spearheaded the search
fi rm,” Narcise said. “So the move
for a new offi ce alongside Cushman &
couldn’t have happened at a better
Among them was the advisory
Wakefi eld’s Marc Rosenberg and Jon
time.”
practice, whose professionals
Williams (now with CBRE). That led
That’s despite the fact that Wiss
serve as a sort of third-party chief
Wiss to 100 Campus Drive, where it
moved in roughly eight weeks before
fi nancial offi cer for clients that wish
leased 41,000 square feet for a space
the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in
to outsource the role or simply can’t
that was more than 40 percent larger
the U.S. and upended the commercial
fi nd accounting talent for internal
than its former home.
offi ce sector. While the fi rm was
positions. The offering has fi lled “a
Designed by Studio 1200, the new
forced to navigate remote and hybrid
huge need” with services that also
offi ce has a light-fi lled, open layout
work arrangements, it continued to
include consulting, recruiting and
with a full complement of phone,
grow new business lines that had a
others, growing from a single team
huddle and meeting rooms as well
high revenue trajectory.
member just a few years ago to what
T R U S T E D
expansion to a second fl oor and the growth of its advisory team.
Narcise says is now roughly 100.
It also went hand in hand with Wiss’
most recent expansion, in early
2024, when it added another 29,000
square feet on the fl oor below its
main offi ce. It punctuated that move
with the recent debut of a majestic,
interconnecting staircase with a
large digital screen, adding to a space
that Narcise says is an important
marketing tool for the practice.
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