WEST ORANGE--The New Jersey office of FirstService Williams, the world’s fourth largest commercial real estate services firm, arranged a 12-year, 13,776-sf lease on behalf of the landlord at Mt. Pleasant Medical in West Orange.
SECAUCUS--CB Richard Ellis' Capital Markets Debt & Equity group recently refinanced a $19 million mortgage loan secured by a first lien on a 197,453-sf office/warehouse located at 40 Hartz Way in Secaucus.
EAST RUTHERFORD--Mc Gowan Builders, Inc. held the Mc Gowan Builders 7th Charitable Golf Classic at Emerson Golf Club in Emerson.
BEDMINSTER-- Beckerman Public Relations has acquired Avalanche Strategic Communications, a full-service public relations firm based in Hackensack.
HAMPTON--Tekton Development Corp has been retained as general contractor by the Hampton Borough School District in Hampton on a $2.3 million capital improvement project for the Hampton Public School at 32-41 South St.
HOLMDEL--Weichert Commercial Brokerage, Inc. unveiled three medical/office buildings, totaling 48,000 sf located at 670 N. Beers Street, Buildings 2, 3 & 4 in Holmdel at an invitation-only open house hosted for medical practitioners on Saturday, June 20th.
ROSELAND--Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. has arranged a 6,913-sf sublease at 425 Eagle Rock Ave. in Roseland.
HACKENSACK--NAI James E. Hanson, a leading New Jersey-based commercial real estate firm, has been named the exclusive leasing agent for a single-story 18,100-sf industrial warehouse located at 184 Essex Street in Hackensack.
AVENEL--Subway will open its doors this summer at Delco Plaza, bringing the 77,928-sf neighborhood shopping center in Avenel to 100 percent occupancy.
LIVINGSTON--CoreNetNJ (Corporate Real Estate Executives Network of New Jersey), the New Jersey chapter of CoreNet Global, has selected new leadership for the organization.
HASBROUCK HEIGHTS--DMR Architects was recently honored at a ribbon cutting ceremony at the Special Children's Center in Lakewood. More than 50 people attended the event, including local and state politicians and the many volunteers who helped make the new center a reality.
ASBURY--J.G. Petrucci Co., Inc., has announced that Ryan R. Waggner has joined the firm’s growing team of professionals as an Assistant Property Manager. He will be based at the company’s headquarters in Asbury.
EDISON--Budgetary issues are the talk of state agency hallways, and the New Jersey DEP is not exempt. Indeed, while DEP will have less money to work with for fiscal 2010, the state Treasury's windfall from the recent tax amnesty and other factors will apparently keep the agency's current staffers employed.
ROCHELLE PARK--NAI James E. Hanson has been named the exclusive sales agent for a 1.3 acre vacant lot, which is available for development and is located at 131 Rochelle Avenue in Rochelle Park.
BERNARDS TOWNSHIP--SJP Properties has announced that 140 Allen Road, a 65,000-sf office building in the heart of Somerset County, is available for lease in its entirety for the first time.
MAHWAH--Jeffrey Dunne of CB Richard Ellis' New York Institutional Group collaborated with Steve Hryszko of CBRE's Self Storage Advisory Group to represent Raia Self Storage in the closing of the Raia Self Storage Portfolio.
CHESTER--NAI James E. Hanson, a leading New Jersey-based commercial real estate firm, has been selected as the exclusive broker of three newly constructed residential apartment units, which total approximately 6,500 sf and are located at 263-265 Main Street in Chester.
WEST ORANGE--The New Jersey office of FirstService Williams arranged for the sale and purchase of a 22,524-sf medical office condominium interest at 375 Mt. Pleasant Avenue in West Orange.
WEST NEW YORK--The Kislak Company, Inc.,recently completed the sale of two apartment buildings comprising 49 units in West New York.
NEWARK--Newark Regional Business Partnership and The Star-Ledger present a Business Improvement Workshop, "Web Optimization" on Tuesday, June 23.
PLAINSBORO--Colliers Houston & Co. has leased over 20,500 sf of space at Princeton North Plaza, which is located at 101 Morgan Lane in Plainsboro.
FREEHOLD--The 70,000-sf industrial/flex building at 6 Paragon Way in this Monmouth County seat is brand new, and now it has its first four tenants. Sperry Van Ness | Richter Grusd has completed those initial signings, which amount to 25,000 sf square feet.
ROCKAWAY--The Marketplace at Rockaway has traded for $29 million, announced Cushman & Wakefield, Inc.’s Metropolitan Area Capital Markets Group.
RED BANK--After two months since launching an offer to rent at The Metropolitan, the community is now more than 70 percent occupied.
NEWARK--It's a new public/private initiative, and one of the key goals is getting more supermarkets open and operating in the state's urban centers. And as part of Gov. Jon Corzine's Economic Recovery and Assistance Plan, the Food Access Initiative aims to create jobs and reduce regional health disparities.
PATERSON--CB Richard Ellis' Private Client Group recently completed a $1.75 million sale of a 25,000-sf mixed-use facility, which includes four retail units and seven residential apartments, located at 33-43 Park Avenue in Paterson.
WYCKOFF--The Kislak Company, Inc. recently completed the sale-leaseback of 640 Wyckoff Avenue, Wyckoff.
TRENTON, NJ – New Jersey officials are looking for ways to both create jobs and save energy, and this week the state rolled out a new program in support of both goals. Specifically, the Clean Energy Solutions Capital Investment program will offer up loans and grants to advance projects that either combine heat and power production or include efficient electric generation facilities.
BAYONNE--Senior Vice President Aaron Mittleman of Weichert Commercial Group has recently completed the sale of a 13,300-sf, 4-story, multi-family investment property in Bayonne.
WOODBRIDGE--Onyx Equities, LLC, has executed a new long-term 12,282-sf lease agreement at 301 Route 17 North, within the Meadows Office Complex in Rutherford, with Summit VetPharm, LLC, an animal health company and subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation that is relocating from Fort Lee.
NEWARK--Gebroe-Hammer Associates has announced the $2.95 million trade of Oliver Plaza Apartments, a 58-unit mid-rise complex in the Weequahic Park neighborhood of Newark.
RARITAN--A modernizing “facelift” is underway at Somerville Circle Shopping Center in Raritan, announced Matthew K. Harding, president and chief operating officer of retail real estate services firm Levin Management Corporation, the property’s exclusive leasing and managing agent.
MOUNT OLIVE--CB Richard Ellis recently hosted an Open House for four availabilities within its eight-building industrial/warehouse/office/flex portfolio in the 684-acre International Trade Center in Mount Olive.
EDISON--The New Jersey Association of REALTORS® (NJAR®) Governmental Research Foundation (GRF) has unveiled an online, interactive database prepared by the nationally recognized Center for Housing Policy that compares wages for selected occupations with the costs of owning and renting a home.
MADISON--In ceremonies held on June 5 at Fairleigh Dickinson University’s College at Florham in Madison, construction executive Christopher A. Johnson was inducted into The Pinnacle, the highest award the university bestows upon its alumni.
CAMDEN--Foreign consuls and corporate business executives joined officials from the Governor’s Office of Economic Growth and the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (EDA) to learn how public- and private-sector collaboration can enhance international trade opportunities in global markets.
BEDMINSTER--Advance Realty has announced that two new leases have been signed at the company’s new flex building at The Picatinny Applied Research Campus (The PARC), a new high-tech office/research park located at Picatinny Arsenal in Morris County.
EWING TWP--Cricket Communications, the wireless service provider, has become the latest retail tenant at Capitol Plaza in Ewing.
TRENTON--Fox Rehabilitation Services, P.C., a provider of in-home physical, occupational and speech therapy, expects to maintain 400 jobs and add as many as 240 new positions over the next two years with its relocation to larger facilities in Cherry Hill Township.
CHATHAM--The Sudler Companies will host an open house at its recently renovated 20,000-sf office, light industrial, flex property located at 45 Park Road in Tinton Falls.
EAST ORANGE--Massey Knakal’s Special Asset Strategy Group has announced the sale of 96 Eaton Place.
BASKING RIDGE--Carroll McNulty & Kull LLC has announced that Christopher H. Mansuy has joined the law firm as a Member.
HACKENSACK--Tennis legend Andre Agassi will appear at The Kennedy Funding Invitational, a charity tennis tournament to raise awareness and funding to fight breast cancer.
NEWTON--Sweetwater Construction Corp. has announced that it recently completed work on the renovation of the Single-Room Maternity Unit for Newton Memorial Hospital at 75 High St. in Newton.
NEWARK, NJ--CoreNet Global NJ, (Corporate Real Estate Executives Network of New Jersey) the New Jersey State Chapter of CoreNet Global, has scheduled a CoRE Curriculum educational workshop for Wednesday, September 16, 2009, from 8:30 A.M. to 10:30 A. M.
EWING--The Jefferson, a new condominium community in the Mercer County Township of Ewing, will unveil three new models at the grand opening to be held this weekend, June 13 and 14.
PARSIPPANY--The New Jersey office of FirstService Williams has been named by Normandy Real Estate Partners as the exclusive leasing agent for 99 & 119 Cherry Hill Road, a two-building, 189,000-sf Class A office complex in Parsippany.
NEWARK--Mayor Cory A. Booker and Director of Neighborhood and Recreational Services Melvin Waldrop have announced that the City of Newark will hold a series of free Downtown Lunchtime Concerts and Neighborhood Concerts as part of its Super Summer programs, bringing local and professional musicians to perform in the City’s downtown Military Park and in parks across Newark.
PARSIPPANY--Colliers Houston & Co. has been appointed the exclusive leasing agent for six industrial/flex/office properties, which total approximately 90,000 sf and are located within the Montville Business Center in Pine Brook.
BEDMINSTER--Advance Realty has announced that Senior Vice President Kevin Tartaglione has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of the New Jersey Chapter of NAIOP, the Commercial Real Estate Development Association.
EDISON-- The New Jersey Association of REALTORS® (NJAR®) has voiced its support for legislation establishing continuing education requirements for real estate licensees.
SECAUCUS--The Frank R. Lautenberg transit station at Secaucus Junction got a much needed parking upgrade this week. Governor Corzine, Senator Lautenberg, Congressman Rothman and the property developer cut the ribbon on 1,100 new parking spaces at the station on Monday.
WHIPPANY-- FirstService Williams recently represented Breeze-Eastern Corporation in its 10-year, 116,246-sf office and industrial lease at 35 Melanie Lane in Whippany. Breeze-Eastern is a publicly traded company and the world’s leading supplier of electric and hydraulic rescue hoist systems for helicopters.
FREEHOLD--Onyx Equities, LLC, has completed the sale of a 10,374-sf stand-alone office building located at 65 Gibson Place in Freehold to the Chinese American Bible Church.
HACKENSACK---NAI James E. Hanson has been appointed the exclusive leasing/sales agent of a 14,540-sf retail facility, which is located at 51 South Route 9W in West Haverstraw, New York.
SOMERSET--The Industrial and Office Real Estate Brokers Association of the New York Metropolitan Area (IOREBA) continues to grow, with nine new brokers accepted for active membership this spring.
RIDGEFIELD PARK--With the REO sale of 85 Challenger Road in Ridgefield Park this week, Cushman & Wakefield’s Metropolitan Area Capital Markets Group has closed the tri-state area’s first post-Lehman large Class A office building investor sale. KABR Real Estate Investment Partners, LLC purchased the 235,000-sf, Class A asset from AIG.
JERSEY CITY--Metrovest Equities has announced that Sheldon Good & Co. Auctions N.E., LLC will auction off 25 one- and two-bedroom luxury condominiums at the landmark Beacon residential development in Jersey City as part of a proactive approach to closing out the community’s first phase of 315 homes which is approximately 80% sold and occupied.
HASBROUCK HEIGHTS--Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated recently completed an office lease at 777 Terrace Avenue, a 200,000-sf, Class A office building in Hasbrouck Heights.
TRENTON – The State of New Jersey is looking for more than a few good clean-energy manufacturing operations, and there's money in it for the right companies. State officials yesterday launched a new round of financing for companies that make energy-efficient products and equipment.
NEWARK--Acting Business Administrator Michelle Thomas, State Public Advocate Ronald K. Chen, members of the Newark Lead Poisoning Prevention Task Force and Maple Avenue School Principal Deneen Washington were joined by Maple Avenue students and parents to kick off the City of Newark's “Lead Poisoning Awareness and Prevention Week” during a ceremony at Maple Avenue School today. Newark officials also launched a city-wide tri-lingual multi-media campaign designed to promote awareness about lead poisoning and what parents can do to protect their family. Children who are 6 years of age and younger are at greater risk for lead poisoning.
The first week of June has traditionally been National Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Week, a nationwide effort to raise awareness of lead dangers in homes and workplaces, and to encourage removal of such hazards from homes and testing of children for signs of lead poisoning. Newark, through its Department of Child and Family Well-Being, maintains an active anti-lead program. Since 2007, the number of Newark children with elevated blood Lead levels dropped from 992 in 2007, to 687 so far last year.
In October 2008, the City of Newark launched the “Model Lead Safe City Initiative,” which partners the City with the Office of the New Jersey Public Advocate to better protect Newark children under the age of six from lead hazards. Under this initiative, Newark has committed itself to achieving goals and objectives defined by the Public Advocate, to reduce lead dangers in homes and incidents of lead poisoning among Newark families, working in partnership with federal, state, county, and non-profit agencies.
Although the sale of lead based paint was banned in 1978, 81 percent of Newark’s housing was built prior to this date. Hence many children in Newark are still exposed to paint with high lead levels. Lead poisoning can cause irreversible, life-long, serious harm including neurological problems, behavioral problems, developmental disabilities, decreased I.Q., growth problems, hearing loss, coma, and sometimes death. Ingestion of lead-based paint by children is the main cause of lead poisoning in the City of Newark.
“Last year the City of Newark received $4 million from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development to abate 250 homes by 2010, and we expect to meet that deadline. We also received funding from the state Department of Health and Senior Services for $743,143. Of that, $229,101 is a Community Development Block Grant for Childhood Lead Poisoning Control programs, while another $173,084 CDBG grant supports Lead-Safe Houses. We are also getting $100,000 from the state Department of Community Affairs for Lead Education and Outreach and in February were awarded a $1.5 Million grant from the Kresge Foundation to be used towards the expansion of our lead-safe housing, education and outreach,” Director Vizcarrondo said in a statement.
Beverly Wilson found out both of her grandchildren had lead poisoning after she brought them to the Department of Child and Family Well-being for a test in 2006. During the ceremony she praised the city for abating the lead from their home and said, “I applaud the Newark Childhood Lead Prevention Team for their efforts to ensure that my 7-year old granddaughter Dymin and my 6-year old grandson Nyjae both received the treatment they needed so they could grow up to be healthy adults. We now live in a lead safe home thanks to their dedication and determination to keep our children safe from lead.”
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PARAMUS-- Chuck Lanyard, president of The Goldstein Group, announced the completion of ten lease transactions for seven retailers throughout New Jersey:
ASBURY/BETHLEHEM, PA--Synchronoss Technologies is relocating and expanding its facilities by opening a new 62,000-sf Global Research and Development Center at 1555 Spillman Drive within Lehigh Valley Industrial Park VII (LVIP VII) at Bethlehem Commerce Center in Bethlehem, PA.
LIVINGSTON--Jarmel Kizel Architects and Engineers Inc. is completing architecture, design and structural engineering services for a new 7,300-sf T.G.I. Friday's restaurant at 1780 Gun Hill Rd. in the Bronx, NY, on behalf of the Briad Group of Livingston.
WHIPPANY, NJ--Mechanical Solutions, Inc. (MSI) of Whippany has added two engineers to the staff of its new Albany, NY office. Thomas J. Walter and Charles J. Prisco are MSI’s newest Principal Engineers.
