Real Estate
Revising a state tax credit for a more powerful boost
Proposals would expand the number of urban transit hubs markets director at the Parsippany office of Jones Meisel, who suggests lowering the thresholds
Lang LaSalle. “You can move someone from one even further as one way to include more small-
BY EVELYN LEE Assemblyman Anthony Chiappone (D-Bay- end of the urban transit hub to another and they er-sized firms. “There’s a thin bandwidth of com-
MODIFICATIONS TO THE state’s Urban Transit onne), sponsor of the Assembly bill. can get the full incentives,” while creating a large panies that can take advantage of it,” he said. “It’s
Hub Tax Credit Program are expected to During the movement to make changes to vacancy within the same zone, he said. good to attract the big companies, but it would-
increase the number of New Jersey businesses the program, however, one potential issue was And even with the revisions, the program n’t be a bad idea to attract the smaller ones.” ◆
that can take advantage of the program, but the overlooked, said Jonathan Meisel, New Jersey still “only applies to large companies,” said E-mail to elee@njbiz.com
incentive still won’t apply to smaller compa-
nies, local commercial real estate players said.
“It’ll help more tenants and landlords
potentially do deals,” said Sean Brady, a senior
director at the East Rutherford office of Cush-
man & Wakefield, a commercial real estate bro-
kerage. “It’ll bring more sites into play and
bring more tenants into play.”
Many companies don’t qualify for the pro-
gram in its current form, he said. “The Urban
Transit Hub [Tax Credit] is too large for a num-
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