ORGANIZATIONS ATTENDING JUNE 4th, 2026
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Real Estate NJ
OCT 2
Matthews: 10-unit apartment building in Jersey City Heights fetches $1.85 million | Real Estate NJ
A mixed-use property in Jersey City is under new ownership after a $1.85 million sale.
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Real Estate NJ (Voices - Jersey City)
OCT 2
Panepinto debuts lifestyle amenities at new 605-unit Journal Square rental tower
Amenities at 505 Summit in Jersey City include a rooftop deck with a swimming pool, grilling and dining areas and a dedicated dog run, as well as indoor spaces such as a resident lounge, a game room and co-working spaces
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Voices - Jersey City
OCT 1
Jersey City Planning Board Approves Transportation Plan Amendments
Jersey City's Planning Board voted 5-0 Tuesday to approve sweeping amendments to the transportation component of the city's master plan, the first update to that section since 2013. The plan touches nearly every corner o
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Jersey Digs
OCT 1
Jersey City Waterfront Hyatt Faces Trouble With $100 Million Loan
The 351-key Hyatt Hotel in Jersey City recently sold. Image courtesy of Hyatt.
The $100 million commercial mortgage-backed securities loans secured by the Hyatt Regency hotel next to the Exchange Place PATH station in t
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Jersey Digs
OCT 1
The Lounge at Xena, Jersey City’s First Cannabis Consumption Lounge, to Open This Weekend
The Lounge at Xena will host a grand opening on October 2. Image courtesy of Haytham Elgawly.
While Jersey City has seen a plethora of dispensaries open since the state legalized recreational marijuana, the first consum
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Real Estate NJ
OCT 1
ULI NNJ to convene Solomon, CRE leaders on Oct. 14 for ‘Jersey City at the Forefront’
By Joshua Burd
Jersey City Mayor James Solomon will take the stage later this month as part of an event hosted by the Urban Land Institute, where he’ll speak directly to real estate and land use leaders on the city’s co
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citybiz (Voices - Jersey City)
OCT 1
Panepinto Properties Debuts Amenity Collection at 505 Summit in Jersey City’s Journal Square
Panepinto Properties has released a first look at the completed indoor and outdoor amenity collection at 505 Summit, its new 53-story luxury rental tower in Jersey City’s Journal Square.
Designed by New York–based HLW I
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ROI-NJ
OCT 1
Ivy Primary Prep signs lease to open early education center at Jersey City’s Hudson House
RXR announced Sept. 29 that Ivy Primary Prep has signed a lease to open an 8,800-square-foot early education center at Radio Lofts, one of two newly opened rental buildings within the three-building Hudson House Collecti
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Yield PRO (Voices - Jersey City)
OCT 1
Luxury Amenities Completed at 505 Summit Avenue in Jersey City
Panepinto Properties has released a first look at the completed indoor and outdoor amenity collection at 505 Summit, its new 53-story luxury rental tower in Jersey City’s Journal Square. Designed by New York–based HLW In
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Voices - Jersey City
SEP 30
Forum Coffee Torches Its Way Into Downtown Jersey City With Blowtorch Latte
A fast-growing New Jersey coffee company has set up shop in downtown Jersey City, moving into the base of the Sable residential tower at 200 Greene Street near the Harborside light rail stop. Forum Coffee's newest café q
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Voices - Jersey City
SEP 30
Solomon Pitches 100% Affordable Senior Housing At Jersey City's West Side Center
Jersey City Mayor James Solomon is calling for 100% affordable senior housing to be built at the Maureen Collier Senior Center on the city's West Side, a proposal that would mark the city's first all-affordable senior ho
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Hudson County View
SEP 30
Housing group calls on Jersey City to fund MLK project over 128 Glenwood Ave.
Friends of Affordable Housing (FOAH) is calling on Jersey City to have a more “transparent, consistent, and accountable” process for allocating community development block grants (CDBG), asking the city to fund 439 Marti
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Jersey Digs
SEP 30
Namdar Group Nabs $310 Million Loan for Homestead Market in Jersey City
The two-tower Homestead Market development will include a pair of 47-story towers with a retail plaza in between. Rendering courtesy of Namdar Group.
One of Jersey’s City’s most prolific developers has secured yet more
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Essex News Daily
SEP 29
Janett Patricia Brammer
May16, 1958 – September 20, 2026 Janett passed away at St Barnabas Hospital in Livingston, New Jersey on
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Hudson County View
SEP 29
HCCC supports faculty innovation through AI Curricular Innovation Spark Grants
Hudson County Community College (HCCC) is supporting faculty innovation through AI Curricular Innovation Spark Grants where faculty will receive $1,500 to develop and implement a course-level project during the spring 20
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Jersey City Times (Voices - Jersey City)
SEP 29
Redevelopment Agency Seeks Proposals for Historic Powerhouse
The Jersey City Redevelopment Agency (JCRA) is now formally seeking proposals for the Powerhouse building, soon to be vacated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ). For the moment, the city and
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NJBIZ - NJBIZ
SEP 29
Claris Biotherapeutics moving HQ from Jersey City
The basics:
Claris is moving its HQ from Jersey City to South San Francisco
Relocation comes ahead of planned 2027 CSB-001 trials
Company has raised more than $175M since 2020
Claris plans to expand hiring across s
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ROI-NJ
SEP 29
PSE&G, Jersey City small business highlight utility’s energy efficiency investment
PSE&G joined Jewel Electric Supply and Jersey City Mayor James Solomon on Sept. 28 for an event highlighting how energy efficiency investments support customers while also creating broader economic activity for busin
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Emory Edwards
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Keshav Poddar
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Real Estate & Land Use
Kyle Master
Founder &
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The Timing is Primed – 4th Wave of Projects
There are a series of historic expansions that are transforming Jersey City. The scale and depth of redevelopment and related projects happening is awe inspiring. There is an especially strong convergence of creative entrepreneurs, boutique, luxury, fashion and makers that have made the food & retail scene in Jersey City extraordinarily diverse.
Reposition Realized – Core Investment Market
The City and it’s partners have deployed an award winning branding campaign that’s been quite successful at making the case for Jersey City to employers, developers and business selection specialists. With hotel occupancy rates north of 90%, the city is welcomed as a retail, restaurant and cultural destination.
Tremendous Momentum – More than a Decade Running!
Whether it’s competitive construction costs, impressive cap rates or the growing affection millennials have, it’s also clear that Jersey City’s development, marketing and outreach efforts are firing on all cylinders. Jersey City has cemented itself as national contender for TAMI, FIRE & creative firms. Its Class A Office, Multifamily & Mixed-Use properties are the rival of many Tier 1 markets with north of $10 billion dollars of projects in construction or in the pipeline. No wonder Jersey City is considered by many the ‘Most Exciting & Energetic Domestic Growth Market’.
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Founder & President
KL Masters Construction
Company
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Founder & CEO
Noble Construction
Group
Jared Toothman
EVP & Market Leader
Lincoln Property
Company
Jeff Sica
President, CEO, CIO
CircleSquared Alternative
Investments
Ben Downing
Managing
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Desimone
Kenneth Pasternak
Executive Chairman &
CEO
KABR Group
Diego Hodara
Founder
& CEO
Titanium Realty Group
Donald Pepe
Chair, Commercial Real
Estate & Commercial Leasing
Scarinci Hollenbeck
William Rosato
Managing Partner
Alpine
Residential
Mira Prinz-Arey
Executive
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JCEDC
Kim McKee
Regional Executive
Commercial Real Estate
U.S. Bank
Frederick Cooper
Senior Vice President,
Strategic Partnerships
Toll Brothers
Jamie Block
Partner
Kushner Real Estate
Group – KRE
Thomas Stevens
Partner
CrossHarbor
Capital Partners
Annisia Cilaone
Housing, Economic Development
& Commerce Director
City of Jersey City
Tim Henkel
CEO &
Principal
Pennrose
Andrew Cavaluzzi
Partner & Co-Founder
Hudson Valley Property
Group – HPVG
Diana Jeffrey
Executive Director
Jersey City Redevelopment
Agency – JCRA
Murat Mutlu
Founder & Principal
INOA
Architecture
Melanie Walter
Executive Director
New Jersey Housing &
Mortgage Finance Agency
Eric Fang
Principal & Practice Area Leader
Perkins Eastman
Bayfront Master Planner
Stephen Cea
Executive Director
Jersey City Housing
Authority – JCHA
Joshua Kirkham
Executive Managing Director & Co-Head of North American RE
Sculptor Real Estate
Benjamin Nevid
Senior Managing
Director
Meridian Capital Group
Ben Van Leeuwen
Co-Founder & CEO
Van Leeuwen
Ice Cream
David Von Spreckelsen
President
Toll Brothers
City Living
Adam Frazier
President & CEO
Columbia
Property Trust
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President
Panepinto
Global Partners
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President &
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