It started as a local marketing effort. Last May, the Hunterdon County Economic Development officials weren’t trying to attract out-of-towners to the county’s farms, markets and restaurants—they were trying to attract locals. Most people weren’t traveling, and the county wanted to capitalize on folks’ unusually local gaze. The Hunterdon County 579 Trail follows a historic agricultural corridor running from Bethlehem ...

The three-year, floating-rate loan was secured through ConnectOne Ban for Larken Associates' newest luxury multifamily community.

The number of U.S. Small Business Administration-backed loans to New Jersey businesses rose 13 percent in the first half of the fiscal year, while dollar volume rose 48 percent, despite an end to federal SBA incentives that fueled lending in the past.