What's been called one of the most ambitious projects in Newark moved ahead into a new phase today, as Hollister Construction Services started on the second building of the Teachers Village, a mixed-use project headed by RBH Group.
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N.J. builders group names acting CEO
Carol Ann Short, a former counsel to the New Jersey General Assembly Republican Office, has been named acting CEO of the New Jersey Builders Association, the trade association for the state’s construction industry.
Read More »Small-business owners losing confidence, survey finds
After three months of slow growth, optimism among New Jersey small-business owners has retreated, declining 1.3 points in March, according to the latest report by the National Federation of Independent Business.
Read More »Poll finds economy a weak spot for Christie, but not among business owners
While his handling of the economy cost Chris Christie a few points in the latest Rutgers-Eagleton poll, that's not true of business owners, which have largely approved of the governor's leadership on issues critical to how they run their companies.
Read More »NJBIZ most-read stories April 10
In case you missed them, the most popular stories yesterday on NJBIZ.com.
Read More »JCPL president will retire, utility announces
Akron, Ohio-based FirstEnergy Corp., parent of Jersey Central Power & Light, announced today the retirement of JCP&L President Don Lynch, effective June 3.
Read More »Electrical storm Business aims to pull plug on post-Sandy utility rate hikes
Hurricane Sandy cost the state's electric utilities hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency repair and restoration efforts, but as utilities seek to recover those costs — and ponder large-scale infrastructure upgrades — the largest energy users are raising red flags about the potential for runaway spending, as power providers seek...
Read More »Shifting from cleanup to rebuilding mode
David Zimmer has a note hanging over his desk designed to remind him of his mission for the foreseeable future.
Read More »Sister act Siblings share perspectives that got them to the head of Fortune 500 firms
Denise Morrison and Maggie Wilderotter are in a sisterhood beyond the one they shared growing up in the Sullivan household in Elberon — the CEOs of Campbell Soup and Frontier Communications, respectively, are among only 21 female CEOs in the Fortune 500.
Read More »Prologis breaks ground on major industrial project in Jersey City
The smoke that once billowed from underground chemical fires and wreaked havoc on the Pulaski Skyway was not enough to discourage Prologis Inc. in 2005, when it first moved to buy a large piece of a former landfill in Jersey City.
Read More »Renovation, not construction, tops Fairleigh Dickinson’s bond wish list
While the state's research institutions figure out ways to use the bulk of the $750 million in Building Our Future bond funds authorized last fall, one private school is looking at the capital availability differently.
Read More »Cranbury biotech gets 2.2M to develop dengue vaccine
Cranbury-based biotechnology company VaxInnate Corp. has received a $2.2 million grant from the federal government to develop a vaccine to prevent dengue, a mosquito-borne viral disease that kills about 25,000 people annually worldwide.
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