Editor’s Note
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.

Health Care
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.

Health Care
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.

Health Care
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

Office
Boniakowski closes new medical condo, office building sales in Central Jersey

An investor has acquired a 3,000-square-foot medical office condominium in Franklin Township, in one of two new deals by The Boniakowski Commercial Real Estate Group.

Health Care & Education
Central utility plant — crucial piece of New Brunswick cancer center project — now online

A critical feature of the new Jack and Sheryl Morris Cancer Center in New Brunswick is now in place — even with more than a year to go before the highly touted facility opens its doors.

Events
Strength and stability: Panelists say long-term leadership in business, government is central to New Brunswick’s highly touted revival

Leveraging its key assets and the vast resources of business, academic and political leaders in New Brunswick has been a hallmark of the city’s economic revival in recent decades, panelists said during a program hosted by Real Estate NJ, as they discussed the philosophical and financial partnerships behind billions of dollars in public- and private-sector redevelopment.

Health Care & Education
Renewals at Belleville medical office campus among newest deals by NAI James. E Hanson

The owner of a medical office complex in Belleville has completed two lease renewals totaling more than 5,000 square feet, according to a team with NAI James. E Hanson.

Office
Eastman, RWJBarnabas ink 12,000 sq. ft. office lease in Livingston, CBRE says

Eastman Cos. and RWJBarnabas Health have signed a long-term lease for nearly 12,000 square feet of office space in Livingston, brokers with CBRE announced Monday.

Health Care & Education
New video shows construction progress, research space at New Brunswick cancer center project

The team behind what will be the state’s first freestanding cancer hospital is offering a new look at the progress of the project in downtown New Brunswick — as well as a preview of one of the building’s most critical components.