These days, when Ralph Zucker travels to Wood-Ridge, he sees something he's only been able to imagine for the better part of a decade.
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Harrison A blank canvas
When Michael Sommer visits Harrison and sets foot on the collection of vacant lots assembled by Advance Realty, he knows he's standing on “a 35-acre blank canvas” — one that “gives us an amazing opportunity to develop a world-class development here.”
Read More »Urban crawl After many years, the time is right for towns to create urban pockets where none exists
Urban renewal has worked in Montclair. It has worked in Morristown.
But what can developers and local officials do when they have no urban center to renew?
Report Federal probe finds no link between Christie, GWB lane closures
According to a report Thursday, federal investigators probing the George Washington Bridge lane closure scandal have found no evidence linking Gov. Chris Christie to the closures that snarled traffic for several days last September.
Read More »Biopharmaceutical company lands government contract
Soligenix, Inc., a late-stage biopharmaceutical company, said Friday it has received a contract worth up to $24.7 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health.
Read More »In Year One, Christie says, EO13 has been ‘so far, pretty good’
It was one year ago this week that Gov. Chris Christie put pen to paper on the Economic Opportunity Act of 2013, a major overhaul of the state's incentives offerings that streamlined five existing programs down to two.
Read More »Jersey City, developer aim to fill 40M funding gap and jump-start 179M Powerhouse project
A developer is pushing ahead with plans to transform Jersey City's historic Powerhouse building into a retail and entertainment destination, but the firm and city officials are first focused on filling a $40 million funding gap for the project.
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Christie would welcome Trump back to Atlantic City
Taking questions from reporters on Thursday, Gov. Chris Christie said he would welcome Donald Trump back to Atlantic City if the real estate mogul wants to return.
Read More »Philadelphia Fed’s survey finds growing optimism among manufacturers
The monthly survey of regional manufacturing firms by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, which includes southern New Jersey, in September continued its upbeat trend, as more employers forecast they will be hiring workers over the next six months.
Read More »N.J. employment was down in August, government reports
New Jersey employment shrank by 900 jobs in August, according to preliminary data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Updated Christie brings back Fox as head of Department of Transportation
(Editor's note: This story was updated at 1:10 p.m. with additional comments from Fox and others.) Gov. Chris Christie has tapped former state Department of Transportation Commissioner Jamie Fox to return to that role, replacing longtime department chief James Simpson.
Read More »356M Port Authority project bringing rail shipping system to Jersey City’s Global Terminal
A new system to move shipping containers by rail is coming to Jersey City's Global Terminal under a $356 million project by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
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