“While redevelopment can bring about positive changes in communities, there is tremendous potential for abuse and corruption. Too often, redevelopment projects are awarded to large campaign contributors and are conducted as a reward to a select few inside political players.” — Harry Pozycki

Last week State Senator Ellen Karcher (D-Monmouth) introduced the Redevelopment Reform and

Ted Zangari, Co-Chair of the Redevelopment Practice Group at Sills Cummis Epstein & Gross P.C., served as a judge for the 46th annual “New Good Neighbor” awards competition sponsored by the New Jersey Business & Industry Association. The contest recognizes organizations that have worked to bring about an improved business climate in New Jersey by

By Eric Peterson

NEWARK, NJ – The economy isn’t growing fast enough in New Jersey to bring down the 20% vacancy rate, business group is told. But the industrial market is another story.

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The Regional Business Partnership’s Annual Real Estate Market Forecast: Reviving The Urban Core will be held Thursday, March 2, 2006 at The Newark Club, One Newark Center, 22nd floor, Newark, New Jersey. This annual forecast will feature a report on the economy from Rae Rosen, Senior Economist and Assistant Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of

New Jersey’s “Mount Laurel” doctrine, which requires every municipality to provide its “fair share” of affordable housing, has long provided the interested builder-developer an opportunity to shape local zoning to meet business objectives as well as respond to social concerns. Because local governments sometimes fail to provide the constitutionally-required affordable housing opportunities, it is possible

January 27, 2006 – Governor Jon S. Corzine today released a series of advisory reports prepared by his transition team on subjects such as: Agriculture Transition Policy Group; Budget and Reengineering Government Transition Policy Group; Economic Growth Transition Policy Group; Ethics and Governance Transition Policy Group; Energy Transition Policy Group; Environment Transition Policy Group; Housing

January 23, 2006 – Ted Zangari, Chair of the Redevelopment practice group, recently co-authored the New Jersey Business & Industry Association’s “white paper” to the incoming Corzine Administration on economic development. The report, entitled “Ten Things the Corzine Administration Can Do to Spur Economic Development” includes several recommendations for using smart growth as a bridge

Congratulations to State Smart Growth Ombudsman Patrick Gillespie for his work involving the launch of “Smart Growth New Jersey,” a new State website. Ted Zangari, Chair of the Redevelopment, Public Incentives and Government Relations Practice Group at the law firm of Sills Cummis Epstein & Gross in Newark, adds “Redevelopment professionals welcome the State’s effort

For too many years, the development community has experienced a myriad of snafus in their pursuit of redevelopment projects across New Jersey.  If this state is to house the one million additional residents which economists predict will flock to New Jersey over the next decade – while at the same time more and more of