Back in the 1970’s, the office of the future was a system of perimeter private offices with a bunch of part-height sheet rock cubicles capped in wood. Here we are, fifty years later, and the only real changes in our office design are the furniture systems. Over the decades we have seen cubicles evolve from and a 6 foot high… Read More

Did you ever wonder why folks in 2023 are afraid to ask for help? Let me make a bold suggestion. Could it be an issue of trust? Since the readers of this newsletter are most focused on commercial real estate and how it affects their businesses, let's try to get specific. Here we are, almost three years after the Pandemic… Read More

Readers of this newsletter know how, over the last three years, we have chronicled the traumatic events affecting commercial real estate in the State of New Jersey. As the dark cloud of Covid has lifted, we are now observing the full scope of the tremendous wreckage in its wake, the effects of which are just coming into focus. What do… Read More

One of the Guru’s guiding my life is the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks z”l. Each week Rabbi Sacks would provide his unique perspective on the most important issues of the day. One of my favorite weekly discussions of his was on the topic of “happiness” versus “meaning”. The two words sound alike, but they are really quite different. Happiness is… Read More

New Jersey office building developers are a tough breed. Back in the 1970’s New Jersey was the model for the development of the suburban office park. One of the first of these was Lanidex, a 9 building office development at the intersection of  Routes 80 and the newly completed Route 287 in the town of Parsippany. The developer, Bud McNally,… Read More