Have you seen the new office? Perimeter private offices and cubicles are gone in favor of open landscape benching and group collaborative seating. Carpeting is being replaced by polished concrete floors. Ceiling tiles are gone too to expose HVAC ducts and ceiling trusses right up to the slab. The traditional kitchen is now more like a luxury café emulating the… Read More

New Jersey business owners are fighting to keep up with the intense level of regulations and changes coming from Trenton. New requirements for employee sick leave are causing companies to stop everything to enforce the new record keeping rule changes. Add to that the rise in the minimum wage and things look downright scary for 2019. The question my customers… Read More

That's right, its back!  The New Year is here and if you are an office tenant your escalation invoice will soon be on its way. Office tenants with gross leases are responsible to pay their proportionate share of INCREASES in Real Estate Taxes and Operating Expenses over the Base Year (usually the first calendar year of the lease term) amount. When the escalation invoice arrives, it… Read More

  HOW WE GOT HERE  To predict the future, amateur historians like myself think that we should first try to understand the past. The New Jersey office market was created in the 1970’s and 1980’s during the “no money down” building boom. The trick at that time for developers was to option a property at a highway interchange and through… Read More

This article, the latest in our Networking series, shows how great networkers take it to the next level and beyond. When networking, it is not about us, it is about them. To recap from our last article, the three most effective levels of networking are the PERSONAL, INSPIRATIONAL and the ASPIRATIONAL. PERSONAL- What are the things that interest them on… Read More