Category: Real Estate

NJBIZ Lists Patrick Dunican and Jennifer Phillips Smith Among Its 2020 “Power 100”

For the tenth consecutive year, NJBIZ has featured attorneys from Gibbons P.C. on its annual “Power 100” list of the most influential people in New Jersey business. Patrick C. Dunican Jr., the firm’s Chairman and Managing Director, is one of a select few people to be named to this list every year it has been published, while Jennifer Phillips Smith, a Director in the firm’s Real Property Department, makes her debut on the 2020 list. This year, NJBIZ notes of Mr. Dunican: The influence of Gibbons PC, one of the state’s biggest law firms, grew this year with the addition of an office in Red Bank. The 94-year-old Newark firm, which has a Trenton outpost that opened in 2002, expanded to Red Bank because it’s a linchpin of Monmouth County and home to some of its most significant clients—nearly half of the county’s top 10 employers are Gibbons clients. Patrick Dunican has been at the helm since 2004 and his business influence extends internationally: he was recognized in August for promoting business ties between New Jersey and Ireland by Donegal County Council with the 2019 Tip O’Neill Irish Diaspora Award. From 2017 to 2018, exports from the Garden State to Ireland increased 14.3 percent. Of Ms. Phillips Smith, NJBIZ notes: As a director at Gibbons...

Join Us at the ICSC New York Deal Making Conference – December 11 & 12

The Gibbons Real Property Department will once again exhibit at the upcoming International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) New York Deal Making Conference at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on December 11-12. Stop by our booth, #2411, to meet some of the Department’s attorneys who will be in attendance (Click here to view our booth location marked as the red circle). Deal Making hours are Wednesday, December 11, from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, and Thursday, December 12, from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm. We look forward to seeing you there!

Gibbons Real Property Department Attorney Publishes in New Jersey Law Journal

Cameron W. MacLeod, an Associate in the firm’s Real Property Department, authored an article, “Finding the Outer Edges of ‘Good Faith’ in ‘Mt. Laurel’ Litigation” in this week’s New Jersey Law Journal. An excerpt from the article can be found below. To view the full article, click here. In 2015, the court directed that municipalities revise their housing elements and fair share plans “with good faith” and with “reasonable speed.” In re: N.J.A.C. 5:96 & 5:97, 221 N.J. 1, 33 (2015). Now, four and a half years later, the question of what constitutes “good faith” in these constitutional compliance cases is paramount, as the trial courts are now faced with whether a municipality’s housing element and fair share plan are consistent with the Mount Laurel obligations. The recent trial court decision in In re Englewood Cliffs, as well as the 2016 decision from Judge Wolfson in In the Matter of the Application of South Brunswick, both demonstrate what steps are necessary to establish “good faith” in these cases. Of the 300-plus declaratory judgment actions commenced in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in In re: N.J.A.C. 5:96 & 5:97, 221 N.J. 1 (2015), many have now settled, or are in the process of settling. The result of this process will be measured by the...

Gibbons to Exhibit at Upcoming ICSC PA/NJ/DE Conference & Deal Making

The Gibbons Real Property Department will once again exhibit at the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) PA/NJ/DE Conference & Deal Making at the Pennsylvania Convention Center on September 12. Stop by our booth, #319, and meet with some of the Department’s attorneys who will be attending. Deal Making hours are Thursday, September 12, from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm. The Conference provides an opportunity for real estate professionals (shopping center owners, developers, managers, marketing specialists, investors, lenders, retailers, etc.) to network and focus on getting deals done. We look forward to seeing you there!

Gibbons to Exhibit at ICSC New York Deal Making Conference on Wednesday and Thursday

The Gibbons Real Property Department will once again exhibit at the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) New York Deal Making Conference at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on December 5-6. Stop by our booth, #2411, and meet with some of the Department’s attorneys who will be attending (Click here to view the Deal Making floor plan). Show hours are Wednesday, December 5, from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, and Thursday, December 6, from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm. We look forward to seeing you there!

Gibbons Clients Unveil Final Phase of Major Jersey City Real Estate Project

Longtime Gibbons clients Ironstate Development Co. and Panepinto Properties have unveiled the final phase of a major joint real estate project with residential, retail, and hospitality components in the heart of Jersey City and with direct access to the Grove Street PATH station. A team of Gibbons attorneys has represented the Ironstate and Panepinto joint venture on the Columbus project since its inception, advising our clients over the course of a decade and three significant project phases, which industry publication Real Estate NJ recently summarized.

Howard Geneslaw to Speak at NJSBA Webinar

Howard D. Geneslaw, a Director in the Gibbons Real Property Department, will participate in an upcoming webinar entitled “Advanced Topics in Land Use IV: Zoning and Planning Boards.” The webinar is presented by the New Jersey State Bar Association (NJSBA) and co-sponsored by the NJSBA Land Use Law Section and will be held on April 25 from 12:00 – 1:40 p.m. This is the fourth webinar in the NJSBA’s ongoing series featuring discussions about a variety of current zoning trends. Mr. Geneslaw’s topic is “Case Law Developments in Bad Faith Objections to Land Use Applications – Has the Judicial Tide Turned on Objections Asserted by Business Competitors?” In addition to Mr. Geneslaw, panelists will include Richard S. Schkolnick, Esq. (moderator), Brown Moskowitz & Kallen, PC; Gary S. Forshner, Esq., Greenbaum Rowe Smith & Davis, LLP; Donna M. Jennings, Esq., Wilentz Goldman & Spitzer, PA; Kenneth A. Porro, Esq., Chasan Lamparello Mallon & Cappuzzo, PC; and William C. Sullivan Jr., Esq., Scarinci & Hollenbeck. For a detailed agenda or to register, click here.

Gibbons Part of Team Nominated by NAIOP for Mixed-Use Deal of the Year

NAIOP New Jersey, the commercial real estate development association, has announced the finalists for its Deal of the Year Awards. Gibbons P.C. was part of the team nominated for Mixed-Use Deal of the Year for the project involving the disposition of the Hoffmann-La Roche US headquarters in Nutley and Clifton, New Jersey. Winners in the categories of Industrial Deal of the Year, Office Deal of the Year, and Mixed-Use Deal of the Year will be announced at the 30th Annual Commercial Real Estate Awards Gala on May 11, 2017. Gibbons was part of the team that led the successful sale of the former 116-acre headquarters and research and development campus of Hoffmann-La Roche, which spans the municipalities of Nutley and Clifton, to Prism Capital Partners and a Boston-based investment manager. As part of the transaction, a joint venture between Hackensack University Medical Center and Seton Hall University will lease two of the campus buildings and 16 acres of the property for the new Seton Hall–Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, the first new private medical school in New Jersey in over 40 years. The new site will also house Seton Hall’s College of Nursing and its School of Health and Medical Sciences, along with a National Health Institute-designated Clinical Research Center that Hackensack Meridian plans to...

SNDAs: Often Encountered, Rarely Discussed

Subordination, non-disturbance and attornment agreements (SNDAs) are often encountered by transactional real estate lawyers, but infrequently discussed. An SNDA is an agreement among a tenant, the landlord’s mortgage lender and, usually, the landlord. An SNDA provides that a tenant’s lease will be subordinated to a mortgage on the landlord’s property, and the mortgage lender will agree that if the mortgage goes into default and the lender forecloses its mortgage, the lease will continue (i.e., it will not be disturbed).

Plans for New Medical School Move Ahead as Hoffmann-La Roche Announces Completion of Purchase and Sale Agreement of its 116-Acre Campus

As reported in today’s NJBIZ, Hoffmann-La Roche has completed the purchase and sale agreement of its 116-acre campus, located in Nutley and Clifton, NJ, to PB Nutclif I, an affiliate of Prism Capital Partners. Seton Hall University and Hackensack Meridian Health then entered into a long-term lease with the developer for the creation of a private medical school and clinical research center. Seton Hall will also relocate its College of Nursing and School of Health and Medical Sciences to this site.