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.

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.

New amenities, programming fuel leasing interest at Onyx-owned campus in Parsippany

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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.

Onyx rebrands Merck campus in Kenilworth, plans full marketing push at BIO conference

Onyx Equities has revealed new details of its plan for the 2 million-square-foot former Merck & Co. campus in Kenilworth, as it prepares a broad campaign to attract life sciences and biotechnology firms seeking both turnkey space and new ground-up facilities.

Join us June 7 for The Newark Redevelopment Update

Despite billions of dollars in new investment, Newark still trails the likes of Jersey City, Hoboken, Harlem and Brooklyn Heights, which have been transformed by redevelopment and an influx of new residents. When will it finally happen? What still needs to be done?

Hear from the developers and insiders behind the city’s most important commercial real estate projects, as they tackle those questions and more in this must-attend event.

Russo, Saraceno among honorees as Meadowlands YMCA raises $846,000 for food pantry

Two of the state’s leading developers were among the honorees last week as the Meadowlands Area YMCA marked a fundraising milestone for its food pantry program.

Demand for lab, R&D space in New Jersey still surging as developers hunt for new supply

Turnkey, high-end life sciences space remains in high demand in New Jersey, creating an opportunity for owners of the state’s few remaining legacy pharmaceutical campuses or those that can find other ways to create new space without building speculatively.

Onyx lands 290,000 sq. ft. lease in Summit for J&J consumer health spinoff headquarters

Johnson & Johnson’s highly anticipated consumer health spinoff is leasing 290,000 square feet of office and laboratory space in Summit, in a deal that will activate a campus recently acquired by Onyx Equities.

Rock Brook supports leukemia, lymphoma research in ‘Big Climb’ event at One Gateway

The state’s commercial real estate industry turned out last week at the new-look One Gateway Center in Newark, the host of the annual Big Climb event, helping to raise more than $58,000 in support of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.