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Join Us! Significant Incentives Available for Companies Staying In or Relocating To New Jersey
The GrowNJ program encourages companies to create jobs and make capital investments in the Garden State. By moving from Pennsylvania (or any other state) a 25 employee company could earn at least $750,000 in incentives money, while a 50 employee company could bring in a minimum of $1,500,000. New Jersey companies can also benefit from…
Airport Corporate Park now 70% occupied
Mercer Oak Realty is happy to announce a recent lease transaction at 100 Airport Corporate Park. Horizon NJ Health, a subsidiary of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, has leased 23,145 sq. ft. of office space at Building 100 in Airport Corporate Park, bringing the company’s total space occupancy at the park to…
Construction Begins on Hill Wallack LLP's New Building
Mercer Oak Realty is proud to announce that Hill Wallack LLP has begun construction on their new office building at 21 Roszel Road in West Windsor. Mercer Oak Realty represented Hill Wallack LLP in the 48,000 sf lease. This new location will accommodate Princeton-based Hill Wallack LLP’s growing workforce and re-invent their office’s work environment,…
Princeton Law Firm Signs 22,000 sf Lease
We are happy to announce that our client, Archer & Greiner, has signed a long-term lease with Boston Properties for 22,000 sf at 101 Carnegie Center in Princeton, NJ. The 22,000 sf at 101 Carnegie Center gives Archer & Greiner space to expand their operations and offers a more client friendly meeting space and conference…
Haines chats with The Times of Trenton about the Mercer County Office Market
Aubrey Haines spoke with Brendan McGrath of The Times of Trenton about the Mercer County Commercial Real Estate market. Despite the success of the building and the current strength of the market, local development of large commercial office buildings has been slow to pick up coming out of the recession. There has been little new…
Aubrey Haines Presents 2014 Real Estate Forecast
Princeton Office Market to experience Class A Space Shortage Mercer Oak Presents Princeton Office Market Report Princeton, NJ – Over 160 Real Estate professionals from the Princeton Market gathered on Tuesday January 28 at the Hyatt Regency to discuss the 2014 Real Estate Forecast. Mercer Oak’s Aubrey Haines presented The Princeton Office Market Report and…
Mercer Oak Realty Welcomes Vice President
Ewing, NJ – Dawn Stillwell, of Haddon Township, NJ, has joined Mercer Oak Realty, Princeton’s commercial real estate brokerage firm, as vice president, announced Mercer Oak’s CEO, Aubrey Haines, LEED AP. As Vice President, Stillwell concentrates on business development, strategic planning and team leadership. She researches and pursues leads to bring new clients to the…
Church & Dwight Moves into New HQ Building at PrincetonSouth
Mercer Oak Realty would like to officially welcome Church & Dwight to Princeton South Corporate Center.
RealShare New Jersey Conference: Triumphs & Challenges
Conference sparks talks of triumphs, challenges in New Jersey commercial real estate market It was around 9 a.m. at RealShare New Jersey, one of the year’s biggest commercial real estate conferences, and Joe Taylor had some friendly advice for the audience. “If you’re not having fun in real estate right now,” said Taylor, president of…
Addressing New Jersey's White Elephants
Over the past decade, the campus-style complex model slowly became outdated as technological advances, downsizing and outsourcing negated the need for workers to be in an office setting, Advance Realty president and CEO Peter Cocoziello said. The above is a quote comes from an nj.com article titled: Developer: Plan for Bridgewater’s Sanofi Research Campus will…
Trenton Neighborhoods Get $1.1M Investment
Wells Fargo announced Thursday that it plans to invest more than $1.1 million in grants to provide funding toward various Trenton neighborhood revitalization programs. (read full story on njbiz.com here)
GrowNJ Incentives Program Updates
Recent articles cover some of the success & struggles of the GrowNJ program as New Jersey works to keep companies and jobs within the State. Why it stayed: Panasonic’s decision was about more than tax incentives (read full story on njbiz.com) Even in the case of Panasonic, which received a well-documented $102.4 million tax credit…
Good News for NJ Jobs
U.S. jobs growth stays on a roll; recovery starts to catch on in N.J. “The tone of the economy nationally has become more positive, and there’s every reason to expect we’ll get some spillover effect in New Jersey,” said Patrick O’Keefe, an economist with the accounting firm CohnReznick, which has an office in Roseland. Read…
Commercial Real Estate Notes from Around the State
NJ pharma: Real estate needs to reflect the changing needs of the industry For Pernix Therapeutic Holdings, it was time to find a new home. The Houston-based pharmaceutical company had new executives and a new $65 million war chest from investors, paving the way for a growth plan focused on specialty drugs. But that meant…
Trenton: New Mayor, New Plan
Mercer Oak Realty was in attendance last week at the recently renovated Wyndham Garden on West Lafayette Street in the Capitol City as MIDJersey Chamber welcomed Trenton’s newly-elected Mayor Eric Jackson and learned more about the Trenton250 plan. Opening remarks were delivered by the Honorable Eric Jackson, a Capitol City native and Fairleigh Dickinson graduate.…
Commercial Real Estate Updates
Report: N.J. incentives to bring bump to suburban offices in Q2 With a little help from the state’s revamped business incentives, a few New Jersey suburbs have seen bumps in office leasing in recent months, according to a new second-quarter analysis by the brokerage firm Avison Young. (read full story at njbiz.com) New COAH rules…
News from Around Mercer County
Bill expanding tax credits for film production advanced by senate panel: A bill that would expand the state’s incentive offerings for film and digital media projects has passed the state Senate and is now headed to an Assembly committee. (njbiz.com) Subsidizing big business in NJ: Burlington, Mercer Counties rank in top 10: When executives of…
RealShare New Jersey Conference: Triumphs & Challenges
Conference sparks talks of triumphs, challenges in New Jersey commercial real estate market It was around 9 a.m. at RealShare New Jersey, one of the year’s biggest commercial real estate conferences, and Joe Taylor had some friendly advice for the audience. “If you’re not having fun in real estate right now,” said Taylor, president of…
Addressing New Jersey's White Elephants
Over the past decade, the campus-style complex model slowly became outdated as technological advances, downsizing and outsourcing negated the need for workers to be in an office setting, Advance Realty president and CEO Peter Cocoziello said. The above is a quote comes from an nj.com article titled: Developer: Plan for Bridgewater’s Sanofi Research Campus will…
Trenton Neighborhoods Get $1.1M Investment
Wells Fargo announced Thursday that it plans to invest more than $1.1 million in grants to provide funding toward various Trenton neighborhood revitalization programs. (read full story on njbiz.com here)
GrowNJ Incentives Program Updates
Recent articles cover some of the success & struggles of the GrowNJ program as New Jersey works to keep companies and jobs within the State. Why it stayed: Panasonic’s decision was about more than tax incentives (read full story on njbiz.com) Even in the case of Panasonic, which received a well-documented $102.4 million tax credit…
Good News for NJ Jobs
U.S. jobs growth stays on a roll; recovery starts to catch on in N.J. “The tone of the economy nationally has become more positive, and there’s every reason to expect we’ll get some spillover effect in New Jersey,” said Patrick O’Keefe, an economist with the accounting firm CohnReznick, which has an office in Roseland. Read…
Commercial Real Estate Notes from Around the State
NJ pharma: Real estate needs to reflect the changing needs of the industry For Pernix Therapeutic Holdings, it was time to find a new home. The Houston-based pharmaceutical company had new executives and a new $65 million war chest from investors, paving the way for a growth plan focused on specialty drugs. But that meant…
Trenton: New Mayor, New Plan
Mercer Oak Realty was in attendance last week at the recently renovated Wyndham Garden on West Lafayette Street in the Capitol City as MIDJersey Chamber welcomed Trenton’s newly-elected Mayor Eric Jackson and learned more about the Trenton250 plan. Opening remarks were delivered by the Honorable Eric Jackson, a Capitol City native and Fairleigh Dickinson graduate.…
Commercial Real Estate Updates
Report: N.J. incentives to bring bump to suburban offices in Q2 With a little help from the state’s revamped business incentives, a few New Jersey suburbs have seen bumps in office leasing in recent months, according to a new second-quarter analysis by the brokerage firm Avison Young. (read full story at njbiz.com) New COAH rules…
News from Around Mercer County
Bill expanding tax credits for film production advanced by senate panel: A bill that would expand the state’s incentive offerings for film and digital media projects has passed the state Senate and is now headed to an Assembly committee. (njbiz.com) Subsidizing big business in NJ: Burlington, Mercer Counties rank in top 10: When executives of…