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.

Office
Morristown remains front and center as companies vie for talent by transforming their real estate

Morristown has become a focal point as blue-chip companies make major real estate investments to help fortify and energize their workforces, which was on full display and is poised to continue with the recent opening of Sanofi’s new $130 million, 260,000-square-foot office building.

Office
Inspiring innovation: Sanofi unveils vibrant new flagship office at Morristown’s M Station

Sanofi welcomed Gov. Phil Murphy and other public officials on Thursday to showcase its new 260,000-square-foot flagship office at Morristown’s M Station campus, the result of a $130 million investment to help the global health care company attract and retain talent.

Events
Ten finalists vying for NAIOP N.J. Deal of the Year honors, as chapter hits 90 percent sold mark for must-attend gala

Nearly a dozen transactions and projects will take center stage next week as contenders for NAIOP New Jersey’s Deal of the Year awards, as the organization prepares for what’s poised to be another sellout for its annual Commercial Real Estate Awards Gala.

Events
Ten finalists vying for NAIOP N.J. Deal of the Year honors, as chapter hits 90 percent sold mark for must-attend gala

Nearly a dozen transactions and projects will take center stage next week as contenders for NAIOP New Jersey’s Deal of the Year awards, as the organization prepares for what’s poised to be another sellout for its annual Commercial Real Estate Awards Gala.

Office
Large blocks hit New Jersey office market in Q1, outpacing leasing volume as availability grows

The rate of available office space in New Jersey ticked upward in the first quarter, thanks to several large blocks hitting the market and what brokerage firms say was modest leasing activity.

Events
Milanaik to receive lifetime achievement award as NAIOP honors CRE deals, professionals

Esteemed developer Jeff Milanaik will headline this year’s NAIOP New Jersey Commercial Real Estate Awards Gala, where the association will also unveil its coveted Deal of the Year winners while honoring several other key figures and service providers.

Events
Milanaik to receive lifetime achievement award as NAIOP honors top CRE deals, professionals

Esteemed developer Jeff Milanaik will headline this year’s NAIOP New Jersey Commercial Real Estate Awards Gala, where the association will also unveil its coveted Deal of the Year winners while honoring several other key figures and service providers.

Office
Sanofi looks to sublease part of new flagship office at 260,000 sq. ft. Morristown building

Pharmaceutical giant Sanofi is looking to sublease part of its new U.S. headquarters in Morristown, where it’s slated to occupy the new 260,000-square-foot M Station West building currently under construction.

Top News
Making connections: How Morristown’s HQ Plaza will engage residents, visitors with new public-facing spaces

The renovation of Morristown’s landmark Headquarters Plaza will look to energize the sprawling concourse that connects three office towers, a Hyatt Regency hotel and a host of retailers and restaurants under the roof of the 1 million-square-foot complex. Not to be overlooked is the idea that the refreshed property will also engage the community in a way that it hasn’t in decades, taking cues from the town’s other recent redevelopment projects.