NJ Aspire

An AI rendering for 22 Fulton St., coming to downtown Newark. PROVIDED BY SK DEVELOPMENT
Dec 30, 2025

Newark mixed-income 22 Fulton lands $250M financing package

Walker & Dunlop arranged the package for this 396-unit downtown project, also backed by LIHTCs, NJ Aspire tax credits and a 30-year PILOT.

Penn Plaza in Newark, with properties owned by Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey and NJ Transit, could be in for some big changes. - PROVIDED BY CBRE
Dec 2, 2025

NJ Transit, Horizon pitch 1K-unit mixed-use with HQ in Newark

JLL and CBRE are working on behalf of the owners to find developers for the project, which would introduce 1,000 apartments along with a new Class A headquarters for the insurer.

Homestead Gateway will rise 34 stories and include 90 units of affordable housing within its 300-plus residential mix. - PROVIDED BY JLL
Dec 1, 2025

Homestead Gateway in Jersey City lands $200M financing

JLL arranged the package for the 34-story mixed income tower from Lions Group that will deliver 90 affordable homes within its total 360-unit count.

A rendering for HELIX Health + Life Sciences Exchange, the $731 million life sciences hub underway in New Brunswick. - DEVCO
Nov 20, 2025

HELIX H-3 in New Brunswick secures $359M in tax credits

The latest Aspire Program incentives will advance the 42-story mixed-use tower, which will feature labs and office space, as well as market-rate, affordable and medical student housing.

Economic development
Nov 6, 2025

NJEDA approves $93M in Aspire tax credits in Paterson, Secaucus

The clearance marks the first award for the former, while the latter also includes an inaugural OK for an industrial development under the program.

Construction
Oct 6, 2025

NJHMFA $500M tax credit aims to boost affordability, workforce development

The newly approved subsidy aims to drive private dollars toward projects to increase velocity and offerings in the segment.

Nokia Bell Labs will move its headquarters from Murray Hill to the H-2 tower at HELIX NJ in New Brunswick. - PROVIDED BY SJP PROPERTIES
Jul 3, 2025

Nokia Bell Labs HQ breaks ground at HELIX NJ in New Brunswick

Things are getting busier in New Brunswick, as SJP Properties starts construction on the 10-story, 370,000-square-foot tower that the innovative company will move to from Murray Hill.

Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop joined state and local officials to officially break ground on the first building in the Bayfront Redevelopment Project on May 14, 2025.
May 16, 2025

Mixed-income Bayfront project breaks ground in Jersey City

The first phase of a more-than 8,000-unit waterfront redevelopment plan will add 210 apartments, 80% affordable and workforce housing.

Hackensack Meridian Health April 4, 2025, celebrated the topping off of its first-of-its-kind, transit-oriented health center coming to Metropark in Woodbridge.
Apr 7, 2025

HMH tops out $200M Metropark health & wellness hub (photos)

Since breaking ground a year ago, the one-stop, mixed-use project – which will also feature residential and retail space – expects to debut in fall 2025 in Woodbridge.

Nokia announced plans to relocate its campus in Murray Hill by 2028 to HELIX, a new state-of-the-art research and development facility in New Brunswick.
Mar 12, 2025

Nokia Bell Labs’ future HELIX HQ approved for $103M in Aspire tax credits

Officials celebrated the move as advancing the local innovation economy statewide, as well as for the anticipated benefits it will bring to New Brunswick.

A rendering for the Bayfront Development in Jersey City. - PROVIDED BY CITY OF JERSEY CITY
Jan 27, 2025

Bayfront in Jersey City, along the Hackensack, secures up to $64M from Aspire

The credits will go toward a new residential offering at the massive mixed-use project, which will add more than 74 affordable apartments.

Gov. Phil Murphy delivers the State of the State Address in the Assembly Chambers in Trenton on Jan. 14, 2025.
Jan 27, 2025

New law tweaks Aspire Program – here’s what’s different

Administered by the NJEDA, the program awards tax credits to developers for certain redevelopment projects.