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Grapevine Anchors away, RU leaving?, Trump card
Anchors away, now returningCanadian conglomerate Triple Five appears to be making progress in lining up retailers for American Dream, the massive entertainment and retail complex formerly known as Xanadu in the Meadowlands. Bloomingdale’s has already made a commitment to be an anchor tenant at the project, according to a source that spoke with the Mall […]
Liberty lifts lamp to N.J. fans, executives
What was built as a home for a professional ice hockey team has rapidly become a basketball empire. It started with the New Jersey Nets, which shared the Prudential Center’s floor with the Seton Hall Pirates while the NBA franchise’s new home in Brooklyn, N.Y., awaits completion. Then it was the NCAA Tournament, which hosted […]
Taking a scalpel to high health care costs
George Malik has spent 30 years cutting costs in the health care industry, but even he gets caught by surprise sometimes — like when he discovered an application he had downloaded for his mobile device came with a monthly fee. “To be honest with you, at a previous job I had an app that I […]
Corner office Kelly Watson
For New Jersey business leaders who have not yet read Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act, I would suggest putting it on their priority list. The act, which was created to protect consumers and investors, and to ensure the financial stability of U.S. markets, could have a profound effect on their businesses. Section 1502 includes […]
NJBIZ Opinion Poll
A solid majority of responders to the most recent opinion poll said they wanted to see the state spend its expected windfall from higher-than-planned income tax collection on repayment of its long-term debt. Of course, responders were giving their input before the state Supreme Court decided New Jersey must pour another $500 million into its […]
Letters to the editor
Law will cut insurance costs Companies with government contracts recently filed their annual contribution disclosure forms with the Election Law Enforcement Commission. The data showed that the Citizens Campaign’s state and local pay-to-play reform laws are working, effectively cutting the flow of contributions by 38 percent since the law went into effect. Now, the Citizens […]
Our Point of View
Well, when we’re wrong, we’re wrong. In this space last week, we said politicians, overanxious at the sound of a $500 million income tax windfall landing in their trough, would do some foolish thing — like hand out property tax rebates — with the money before they had to think of the consequences of, say, […]
Reaping rewards of her business acumen
Kaitlynn ZolnayThe College of New Jersey Kaitlynn Zolnay, 20, was a third-grader when she started baking dog biscuits and selling them to local pet stores. Unlike most third-graders’ startups, Bandit’s Biscuits is still in business, and Zolnay also runs Orchidaceous, a decorative art business she launched in high school. The sophomore at TCNJ was only […]
Betting her customers will welcome low-stakes cards
Kellie De CelisRichard Stockton College of New Jersey During her decade-long career in Atlantic City, Kellie De Celis, 33, rose from blackjack dealer to pit manager, training and supervising workers on the casino floor. When she graduates from Stockton next year, she plans to launch The Lucky Ladies, a business that will run gambling entertainment […]
Balancing their books, customers
Tomorrow’s executives demonstrate how they fuel entrepreneurial drive while in school Andrew WestfallRider University Andrew Westfall and Ben Chiappetta, both 23, were juniors in high school when they launched their Internet hosting business Plutomic Hosting. Westfall will graduate in December with a double major in computer information systems and entrepreneurship, as “I knew I wanted[...]
