Inside the office of Bayonne Mayor James Davis is a reminder of the promise held by the Military Ocean Terminal at Bayonne — a framed document formalizing the U.S. Army's transfer of the 2-mile-long, manmade peninsula to local redevelopment officials.

These days, when Ralph Zucker travels to Wood-Ridge, he sees something he's only been able to imagine for the better part of a decade.

When Michael Sommer visits Harrison and sets foot on the collection of vacant lots assembled by Advance Realty, he knows he's standing on “a 35-acre blank canvas” — one that “gives us an amazing opportunity to develop a world-class development here.”

Urban renewal has worked in Montclair. It has worked in Morristown.
But what can developers and local officials do when they have no urban center to renew?

Nationwide, the state-owned highway system is driving toward improvement. But it's not so rosy a picture in the Garden State.

(Editor's note: This story was updated at 1:10 p.m. with additional comments from Fox and others.) Gov. Chris Christie has tapped former state Department of Transportation Commissioner Jamie Fox to return to that role, replacing longtime department chief James Simpson.

Cargo carrier Shipco Transport is moving its global headquarters to Chatham, real estate company The Garibaldi Group announced Wednesday.