The state Economic Development Authority last month unveiled two new funding tools aimed at helping street-level retail and downtown businesses in Passaic, Trenton, Paterson, Camden and Atlantic City.
Wakefern Food Corp. could be in line to expand its vast footprint in New Jersey, having told state officials that it was considering a massive new warehouse facility in Perth Amboy.
Covering real estate had never crossed my mind when I came out of school and started as a metro reporter in Middlesex County. But it wasn’t long before I found myself at council meetings and planning board hearings, listening to developers make their pitch to a town.
State officials have awarded nearly $245 million in tax credits to spur a trio of prominent South Jersey companies to move to Camden as part of the city’s sweeping waterfront redevelopment.
As CEO of Greater Trenton, George Sowa sees a city that has fallen on hard times and has to overcome years of bad press. But Trenton has what it takes to change the narrative, he said, starting with all-important infrastructure such as a transit hub that links to four different rail lines.
Caren Franzini, who led the state’s Economic Development Authority for nearly 20 years and was among New Jersey’s most revered and well-respected business leaders, died Wednesday.
State officials have approved a $20 million tax credit to help support the construction of a new parking and retail structure in Clifton, in what they say is a key part of the planned Seton Hall-Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at the former Hoffman-LaRoche campus.
A maker of nutritional supplements is weighing a move from West Caldwell to Paterson, where state officials say it would build a nearly 80,000-square-foot facility for assembly and packing.
