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.

AST, Robert Wood Johnson mark debut of 229,000 sq. ft. medical pavilion in New Brunswick

AST has completed its latest project in downtown New Brunswick, delivering a new 229,000-square-foot ambulatory care facility for Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital.h

EDA, Nokia Bell Labs to open new hub for commercializing research at New Brunswick’s HELIX campus

A new facility focused on commercializing scientific research is coming to the HELIX — the acclaimed campus under construction in downtown New Brunswick — under a partnership announced this week by state officials and Nokia Bell Labs, a future tenant at the site.