At the state level, it's affordable. But at the municipal level — where approval is required by the state — businesses face thousands of dollars in fees just to submit.

Projects include the $1.5 billion Portal North Bridge project, Deborah Heart and Lung Center's first major capital expansion at the Browns Mills campus since the ’90s and an affordable housing development in Newark’s Fairmount neighborhood.

“At one point, people wanted to talk to us about renovating existing warehouses and other large-scale facilities into film facilities,” said Keith Hanadel of New York-based HLW. Now interest is building around new buildings: “Which signals to me, people are willing to commit much more of an investment into the marketplace than they were before.”

Set for completion this fall, Harborview Logistics Center will offer nearly 200,000 square feet.

The announcement is the second this week from the firm's Team Lizzack-Horning, who earlier negotiated a lease for Behavior Supports Associates LLC in Englewood Cliffs.

Workplace HCM relocated its headquarters to a 2,700-square-foot Class A space in the city.

The buyer is based in New York. And according to Vice President Andrew Scheinerman and Senior Vice President Scott Davidovic, interest from such investors in the Garden State is cropping up more frequently.

NAI James E. Hanson's Team Lizzack-Horning secured the tenant and represented the landlord in the Englewood Cliffs transaction.

Totaling 28,100 square feet, the additions mark the first agreements since the firm acquired the property last summer, and come on the heels of planned improvements to the three-story building.

Construction is set to start at The S. Hekemian Group's North Market for a new 86,000-square-foot building with 26,000 square feet of ground-level Class A retail space in fall 2023.

Cushman & Wakefield arranged the sale of The Georgian, located in the Mile Square City's downtown.

Larry Hartmann, CEO of the Rochelle Park talent advisory firm, called the California company "a great addition" to his firm's real estate practice.