Princeton-based Chambers Street Properties announced Wednesday it has signed two long-term leases in Allen, Texas.

Vacancy along North Jersey’s main retail corridors ticked down through midyear, but the region is still grappling with the effects of several big-box retail bankruptcies in 2009.

NGKF Retail, with offices in East Brunswick, Rutherford and Marlton, announced Tuesday it signed a long-term, 11,233-square-foot lease with furniture retailer Mitchell Gold & Bob Williams, at Equinox Plaza, in Paramus.

Texas-based commercial real estate company HFF announced Tuesday that its Florham Park office has secured $5.8 million in financing for Franklin Square Shopping Center. The location includes 51,911 square feet of retail space on 13.96 acres at the border between Belleville and Bloomfield townships.

Edison-based real estate investment trust Mack-Cali Realty Corp. announced Tuesday it has completed its transaction with Keystone Property Group to sell several suburban Philadelphia office assets.

Commercial real estate firm Marcus & Millichap, with an office in Elmwood Park, announced Tuesday it arranged the sale of a 13,082-square-foot retail space at 1392 St. Georges Ave., in the Avenel section of Woodbridge.

A voter-approved bond for higher education construction took center stage today, when state officials unveiled an $86 million project to transform a former Newark high school into new facilities for the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Despite its name, it wasn’t e-commerce that fed Dotcom Distribution in the beginning.

The new Amazon.com fulfillment hub in Robbinsville might grab the headlines, but the intersection of e-commerce and New Jersey's industrial space exists well beyond Exit 7A.

California-based Strategic Storage Trust Inc. announced Thursday its acquisition of a self-storage facility in Toms River for $5.2 million.