The hotel industry is already changing to meet post-pandemic challenges.

Peter Till, of the Law Offices of Peter W. Till in Springfield, and Harrison Till, a wealth manager with Integrated Partners, found out the Jewish Family Service of Central New Jersey was running out of space and decided to help.

On average, 900,000 people in New Jersey are food insecure and CFBNJ provides about 50 million meals every year.

The measure is meant to help restaurants, bars, cafes and other businesses by providing interest-free, 10-year loans of up to $10,000 per month per business.

One piece of legislation has made its way to the governor's desk, while the other passed through the Senate but has yet to move out of committee in the Assembly.

“The data tells us we can make this announcement now, after months at home,” Murphy said at his daily COVID-19 press conference in Trenton. “I know many families cannot wait for a day either down the shore or alongside one of our lakes.”

The program will not only provide more visibility for the organization and its members but, especially in the face of the pandemic, “chambers are becoming a very important place for connections,” President Peter Crowley told NJBIZ. And the show offers even more ways to extend that, with the opportunity to connect to the public, as well.

The house took home $82.6 million last month, compared to $265.4 million for the same period in 2019.

This funding includes seven food security and five health care awards.

The North Jersey location was purchased by Amazon in March following the chain's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing.

"[G]iven the many problems the world is currently facing, every one of us needs to do some serious reflection on our emotional state during the pandemic,"writes Dale Caldwell, professor and executive director of the Fairleigh Dickinson University Rothman Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.