System updates

As you’ll read in this month’s cover story, New Brunswick is marking its latest and perhaps most monumental investment in health care with the opening of the 12-story, 520,000-square-foot Jack & Sheryl Morris Cancer Center. Executives with RWJBarnabas Health, the Rutgers Cancer Institute and other key stakeholders unveiled the facility in mid-May, hailing the arrival of New Jersey’s first freestanding cancer hospital and one of only 13 in the country, part of a $1 billion project that has brought top-tier patient care and cutting-edge research labs under one roof.

JLL launches marketing for plug-and-play lab suites at New Brunswick’s HELIX district

The team behind the sweeping Health + Life Science Exchange campus in New Brunswick is seeking tenants for a group of prebuilt laboratory and office suites, part of a 574,000-square-foot building that’s slated to open later this year.

Vital investments: Landmark cancer center in New Brunswick is ‘just the beginning’ of broader real estate, facilities strategy by RWJBarnabas

The new Jack and Sheryl Morris Cancer Center is the centerpiece of a massive investment in RWJBarnabas Health’s physical footprint — one that’s ongoing — highlighting the increasingly important role of ground-up development in New Jersey’s health care sector.

HELIX taps Portal Innovations to manage incubator at transformative New Brunswick project

The landmark Health & Life Science Exchange of New Jersey campus in New Brunswick has found a key partner for the project’s incubator space, announcing a pact with Portal Innovations to spearhead a facility for startups and entrepreneurs from nearby universities.

Why New Brunswick’s new cancer hospital is personal for Morris family — and so many others

Fittingly so, it was a major construction project that helped pique Jack Morris’ interest when Harvey Holzberg, CEO of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, asked him to join the board of the New Brunswick institution. That was a quarter-century ago, as the planned Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital was taking shape just west of RWJ’s main campus.

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JLL’s Kossar to headline United Way Legacy Event, with six projects vying for Impact Awards

United Way of Northern New Jersey will honor JLL’s Rob Kossar next month at an annual fundraiser that draws hundreds of commercial real estate industry leaders, where the organization will also celebrate top projects in multiple asset classes.

DIGroup acquires Queens-based Graf & Lewent Architects

DIGroup Architecture LLC has expanded its footprint and its offerings with the acquisition of Graf & Lewent Architects LLP, an established practice based in Queens.

Filling the pipeline: Developers lining up plans for new housing projects in New Brunswick, seeking to meet demand from massive commercial investments

Developers are laying the groundwork for what could be a new wave of apartment construction in downtown New Brunswick, seeking to meet the needs of potentially thousands of new employees that will come from several transformative, large-scale commercial projects that are now taking shape.

EDA approves $104 million Aspire award for Nokia Bell Labs tower in New Brunswick

The developers of what will be nearly 370,000 square feet of lab and office space in New Brunswick, the future home of Nokia Bell Labs, could break ground next month after securing a 10-year, $103.9 million tax credit award under the state’s Aspire program.