Onyx, NJ Transit ink 407,000 sq. ft. lease at Newark’s Gateway, boosting Q2 office market

Onyx Equities has completed a deal to bring NJ Transit to Newark’s Gateway complex, where the agency has committed to more than 400,000 square feet under a high-profile office lease.

NAI Hanson named leasing agent for 716,000 sq. ft. Newark industrial complex

Global real estate firm Hines has tapped NAI James E. Hanson as its leasing agent for more than 700,000 square feet of industrial space in Newark’s Ironbound section.

J&L touts sustainability, wellness features at new 403-unit Ironbound apartment building

J&L Cos. has unveiled a series of features at its new 403-unit luxury apartment building in Newark that it says will promote a healthier, more eco-friendly environment for residents while amplifying a citywide push for sustainability.

KS Group, Giga eye 1,300-unit multifamily project after buying Newark parcel

A joint venture has acquired a development site in downtown Newark where it ultimately hopes to build two luxury apartment towers with a combined 1,300 units.

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VIDEO: The Newark Redevelopment Update

Watch the full presentation from our June 7 seminar, where the developers and insiders behind Newark’s most important commercial real estate projects debated the long-held opportunities and challenges in New Jersey’s largest city.

Panel: Newark remains a land of opportunity for housing, business — despite long-term hurdles

Optimism is nothing new in Newark, with its rich transportation network, cultural institutions and key anchors in business, health care and academia. But the city still struggles with poverty, education challenges and other barriers that have kept it from blossoming alongside places such as Jersey City, Hoboken and other urban markets, despite billions of dollars in new investment. Panelists said as much last week during Real Estate NJ’s Newark Redevelopment Update, as they debated those challenges and how to unlock the city’s long-held potential.

‘Indistinguishable from rent control:’ Critics expect legal challenge to Newark law penalizing landlords, warn of development slowdown

The state’s commercial real estate industry is pushing back on a new ordinance in Newark that aims to limit rent increases at new, non-rent-controlled apartment buildings, arguing it will stifle development and the creation of affordable housing — while openly doubting its legality.

You can’t make it up: Newark’s thinly veiled rent control law is reckless (and illegal)

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka must have snuck into our recent seminar — The Newark Redevelopment Update — and heard the buzz about this proposed resolution because it appears he ran out and got it enacted into law immediately. What is so silly about his maneuver is the fact that it is clearly illegal and will be more than likely overturned rather quickly. So why pass such a resolution in the first place?