A Farm Grows In The City

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By Betsy McKay, May 14, 2017 Billions of people around the world live far from where their food is grown. It’s a big disconnect in modern life. And it may be about to change. The world’s population is expected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050, 33% more people than are on the planet today, according […]

OneWall Partners Acquires 70 Unit Building in East Orange, NJ

Exterior of 111 Glenwood in East Orange, NJ

One Wall Partners (OWP), the real estate investment and management firm based in Newark, NJ, recently announced the acquisition of 111 Glenwood in East Orange, NJ. This property pushes OWP’s portfolio to 19 buildings and 1,123 units. The property at 111 Glenwood contains 47 one-bedroom and 23 two-bedroom options with onsite parking. The building is […]

Taking the long view on New Jersey’s housing affordability

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By Stephen Malpezzi, April 29, 2017 Two weeks ago we took a broad look at housing “affordability” at Rutgers’ BlogˑRE.  It surely surprised very few readers that we found that residents of New Jersey – and our Connecticut and New York neighbors – spend a lot on housing, especially on rents.  Exhibit 2 from that […]

Is Newark the new Brooklyn?

Rendering of exterior of a building in Newark, NJ

By Emily Nonko, March 2, 2017 When Isabel Livingston opened a shop in Newark’s Teacher’s Village development in 2015, she had no intention of moving there, too. She had grown up in Newark but left some 15 years ago in search of better public schools for her daughter, eventually settling in Maplewood, NJ. It didn’t […]

Broadridge Financial coming to Newark, along with 1,000 jobs

Exterior of 2 Gateway Center building in Newark, NJ

By Mario Marroquin, February 27, 2017 Commercial real estate firm C&K Properties announced Monday that Broadridge Financial Solutions has signed a lease to open a Newark office, bringing about 1,000 jobs to the city. The financial services firm signed for 160,000 square feet of Class A office space at 2 Gateway Center, C&K said. “We’re […]

A High Line Plan Emerges in Newark, NJ

Rendering of proposed High Line in Newark, NJ

By Keiko Morris, February 5, 2017 A former skeptic of the High Line walkway on Manhattan’s West Side is now one of the biggest advocates of a similar project across the Hudson River. Jerry Gottesman, chairman of Edison Properties LLC, a real estate company and parking-lot and self-storage giant, was once a vocal skeptic of efforts […]

Newark’s Whole Foods to open next month

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Only weeks after a grand opening event at the new Hahne & Co. building in Newark, the Whole Foods store that will anchor the complex is set to open March 1. That’s according to a report Tuesday by NJ Advance Media. A spokesman for the high-end grocery chain confirmed the opening date for the 29,000-square-foot […]

East Orange landlord taps crowdfunding site to reach new investors

Exterior of 38 S. Walnut Street in Essex County

By Joshua Burd, January 5, 2017 A real estate crowdfunding platform has made its first foray into New Jersey with an apartment building in East Orange, where an owner is seeking to recapitalize the property and tap into the demand for rental housing just outside New York City. The Manhattan-based company, EquityMultiple, has been soliciting […]

OneWall Partners Acquires Additional Property in Newark, New Jersey

Exterior of 292 Wainwright Street in Newark, NJ

One Wall Partners (OWP), the real estate investment and management firm based in Newark, NJ, recently announced the acquisition of 292 Wainwright Street in Newark. This property adds another 27 units to OWP’s portfolio of transit-oriented housing in northern New Jersey. This is the fourth multi-family acquisition executed by the firm in 2016, to date. […]