Residential & Mixed Use
Officials, developers break ground on $24M affordable housing project in Woodbridge

Construction is underway at what will be a new low- and moderate-income residential community in Woodbridge, replacing a former 1950s-era public housing complex.

Professional Services
Colleagues remember Arthur Greenbaum, a dean of New Jersey real estate law

Arthur M. Greenbaum, a beloved figure and fixture in New Jersey’s real estate and legal communities for more than 60 years, died Tuesday. He was 91.

Retail
Five N.J. retail sites included in $325 million Urban Edge deal

Urban Edge Properties is acquiring seven retail centers totaling 1.5 million square feet as part of a $325 million acquisition, including assets in four heavily traveled New Jersey submarkets.

Professional Services
With growth plans in sight, Colliers opens third N.J. office

Colliers International Group has opened a new location in Middlesex County as part of an expansion in the state that the firm says will only continue.

Office
KBS touts 30K sq. ft. in renewals, new deals at Woodbridge office campus

By Joshua Burd KBS Realty Advisors has signed leases totaling nearly 30,000 square feet at its six-building, 632,000-square-foot office campus along Route 1 in Woodbridge, the company announced. The deals at Woodbridge Corporate Plaza include a 4,055-square-foot renewal with Biocon…

Government & Public Policy
All business: A decade later, Woodbridge mayor still has economic development at the top of his agenda

Since taking office in late 2006, Woodbridge Mayor John McCormac has emerged as one of the most development-friendly and pro-business mayors in all of New Jersey. He and his economic development team can boast a record that includes two new power plants, millions of square feet of warehouse space and dozens of new retailers, banks and eateries that have opened during that time.

Government & Public Policy
McCormac: Sharing the benefits of redevelopment with school district is ‘common sense’

Woodbridge Mayor John McCormac is proud of the fact that, for all of the administration’s payment in lieu of taxes agreements with developers over the past decade, not one project has impacted the school system.

But Town Hall is still making sure that the school system is benefiting.

Editor’s Note
Life after COAH

Covering real estate had never crossed my mind when I came out of school and started as a metro reporter in Middlesex County. But it wasn’t long before I found myself at council meetings and planning board hearings, listening to developers make their pitch to a town.

Office
NAI Fennelly brokers new deals in Mercer, Middlesex

The owner of six Princeton-area commercial buildings has sold one of the properties for $4.9 million, one of several recent deals announced by NAI Fennelly.

Professional Services
Greenbaum Rowe names co-chair of redevelopment, land use group

Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP has added a veteran commercial real estate attorney to help lead its redevelopment and land use practice.