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The combination of transit-oriented development and increasing demand for walkable downtowns has created a perfect storm. One developer, JMF Properties, is positioned right at the intersection of these twin trends. Their new communities combine commuter convenience with the ability for residents to live, work, and play in the same neighborhoods.

Once a hub of industry in Central Essex County, the City of Orange is beginning to see more redevelopment. Earlier this year, two new projects opened up and now the former F. Berg & Company Hat Factory is being converted into lofts-style condos.

Downtown Newark will have its first bookstore in decades with the arrival of a Barnes & Noble College store, expected to open in February 2017 serving the Rutgers University-Newark campus and downtown residents.

For too long, Newark’s Downtown was pockmarked with vacant relics of the city’s heyday, but a few local developers have been turning that narrative around in recent years. The Berger Organization is one of these developers, having revived historic structures in the city like the Robert Treat Center and the Military Park Building.

With all the development happening in the Garden State, Rutgers has announced that it will now offer a graduate-level certification program dedicated to development and redevelopment. The program aims to train students for work at high-level positions within the industry.

World-renowned celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson has signed on to open up a restaurant in one of downtown Newark’s most prominent buildings, adding another feather in the cap to both the city’s revitalization and to a historic landmark that’s undergoing a thorough restoration.

The U.S. subsidiary of Japan’s largest publicly-traded real estate company has just purchased a majority stake in one of Hoboken’s most modern office buildings, proving that the age-old wisdom of “location, location, location” hasn’t changed much.

The commercial heart of Hoboken is getting some new life pumped into it, as three different Washington Street projects, all featuring retail, are looking to inject a spark into one of the city’s oldest corridors.

Another historic but neglected building in one of New Jersey’s oldest stretches of downtown is getting a facelift, bringing more residential units plus some revitalized retail back to the heart of Newark.

A meeting that had higher than usual turnout saw Hoboken’s City Council unanimously vote down a legal settlement that would have ended multiple development-related lawsuits.