Finding new life: Young pharma, biotech firms offer second chance for New Jersey’s legacy R&D space

A growing pipeline of young life sciences firms has offered a second chance for New Jersey’s stock of legacy laboratory space. In the process, the ventures have served as anchors for developers seeking to repopulate large, vacant pharmaceutical campuses with turnkey laboratories.

Rutgers, Monmouth students set to weigh in on Roche campus at NAIOP program

Less than a month after hosting a forum for local residents and other stakeholders, the former Hoffmann-LaRoche campus will welcome aspiring commercial real estate professionals.

High hopes for life sciences

For all the time we’ve spent highlighting New Jersey’s glut of sprawling, vacant corporate campuses, it’s easy to lose sight of just how many of them have been rescued in recent years by some of the state’s boldest and most inventive developers. Those success stories are worth telling, which is why we often do at Real Estate NJ. But there are underlying trends or nuances in some of those projects that don’t get as much attention on a day-to-day basis. Like how a crop of innovative, lesser-known biotech and pharmaceutical firms are backfilling space at the former research campuses of Sanofi and Hoffmann-LaRoche, helping to stabilize those sites as their new owners pursue larger redevelopment plans.

Prism announces management, operations team at ON3 campus

Prism Capital Partners has assembled a team to oversee its new ON3 campus in Nutley and Clifton, including three former Hoffmann-La Roche employees who worked at the site for a combined 90 years.

Quest, Ralph Lauren eye projects at ex-Roche campus on Route 3

Quest Diagnostics and Ralph Lauren could be among the newest tenants at the former Hoffmann-LaRoche campus in Clifton and Nutley, now known as ON3, following the approval of $88 million in tax credits to support more than 500,000 square feet of activity at the site.

Veteran architect joins Gensler in Morristown

Global architecture firm Gensler has added to its Morristown office with the hiring of a new design director.

Tulfra plans self-storage in Clifton redevelopment project

Tulfra Real Estate has acquired a vacant 6.5-acre property alongside Route 3 in Nutley, where it plans to develop a 125,000-square-foot self-storage facility.

Biotech startup commits to former Roche campus in Nutley, reports say

A biotech firm has reportedly opted to move its headquarters from Brooklyn to a piece of the former Hoffmann-LaRoche campus in Nutley, following the approval of a $32.3 million state tax credit aimed at luring the company to New Jersey.

JLL team provides a cure for New Jersey’s vacant pharma sites

Several of New Jersey’s largest, most prominent life sciences complexes are now on the path toward redevelopment, with new anchor tenants in place or new owners that can reclaim the value of what was left behind.

In the most high-profile cases, a team at JLL has been right in the thick of it.

A new lease on life: Prism, local officials prepare for ‘next chapter’ of Roche campus

The resurrection of the Roche property in Nutley and Clifton is well underway — and Prism Capital Partners is already seeing tangible signs of the promise that its sprawling campus holds.