Luring millennials with sushi

From the WSJ:

Suburban Offices Woo Millennials With Food, Fitness and Fun

Suburban landlords trying to compete with sleek urban office settings are finding new ways to step up their game.

Property owners in New York’s suburbs are investing heavily to remake bucolic corporate campuses built during the 1980s and 1990s, adding glass facades for natural light-filled offices and retail space for restaurants, cafes and, in at least one case, a supermarket with specialty services.

They also are rolling out features such as modern fitness centers, bike-share programs, walking trails and spacious lobbies as spaces to socialize.

“It’s all about landlords trying to attract tenants, and tenants trying to attract millennial recruitment,” said Daniel Loughlin, broker lead of real-estate services firm JLL’s New Jersey office.

The suburban office market has lagged behind the New York City office market during this expansion, as preferences shifted to urban settings with restaurants, shops, nightlife and mass transportation, brokers and executives said.

But the suburbs continue to have a larger share of the region’s jobs than the city, noted Kenneth McCarthy, principal economist for real-estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield. As of December, 54.6% of the jobs in the New York metropolitan area were in the suburbs, according to his analysis.

As companies consolidate offices and look to take less space, landlords and investors are betting that overhauled, amenity-laden suburban office properties will attract large tenants already in the suburbs.

Simply being near a hip urban setting isn’t enough, said Michael J. DeMarco, president of real estate investment trust Mack-Cali Realty Corp. The Mack-Cali Business Center in Parsippany, N.J., has two hotels and a restaurant and is near downtown Morristown. Wegmans Food Markets Inc., a supermarket chain known for specialty services, is set to open a location on the edge of the office park this year.

Mack-Cali, which owns about 1.9 million square feet of space in the park, is planning to bring in a 70,000-square-foot fitness club, another hotel and four or five restaurants nearby.

“Food has become an incredibly big thing for millennials,” Mr. DeMarco said. “When you were younger, you’d go out and get a sandwich. Now you get sushi.”

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69 Responses to Luring millennials with sushi

  1. Mike says:

    Good Morning New Jersey

  2. Anon E. Moose, proud owner of Silk City Bourbon ver 2.36/114 says:

    Grab them by the puzzy says:
    January 27, 2017 at 8:27 am
    @jonfavs

    Republicans take control of Washington,
    and immediately charge taxpayers at least $14 billion for a concrete wall.
    Good voting everyone.

    Since you simultaneously mock Trump (re: “Puzzy”) and lovingly quote @jonfavs (aka, Democratic speech writer Jon Favreau), the folks here should have a gander at what Jon Favreau does in his spare time to relax.

    F*&k you, you f*&king hypocrite.

  3. Anon E. Moose, proud owner of Silk City Bourbon ver 2.36/114 says:

    Grab them by the puzzy says:
    January 29, 2017 at 3:16 pm
    @paulkrugman

    Given the level of skill, planning, and consultation with experts on the refugee ban,

    how well do you think infrastructure push will go?

    “If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.” – Paul Krugman, Election Night 2016. The DJIA is + 1,761 pts (just shy of 10%) in the two months since the [ahem] Nobel Laureate economist and resident scholar at the august CUNY institute of 13th grade education brought forth his prognostication.

    BTW, how did Obama and the democrats do mopping up the “jayvee squad” in Iraq after GWB 43 handed them the victory?

  4. Anon E. Moose, proud owner of Silk City Bourbon ver 2.36/114 says:

    TDS is real, folks.

  5. Ottoman says:

    If Wegmans had its way, they would have built 10 years ago in East Hanover. It’s not like Mack Cali had some brainstorm to lure them to their office park as part of some grand design. It just happens to be in the general area where they wanted to be anyway and there aren’t many places where a 130,000 grocery store can fit or would be allowed in southern Morris County. Plus they have route 287 frontage.

  6. Ottoman says:

    By victory, you mean illegally bombing and destroying a sovereign nation and committing countless war crimes and atrocities? And then expecting people to play nice?

    BTW, so funny to watch Trump hide behind Obama’s decisions on foreign policy with this immigration ban. Wasn’t he saying for 8 years how Obama was a disaster in the Middle East? I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning. Of course his supporters lack the brain function to understand this.

    “BTW, how did Obama and the democrats do mopping up the “jayvee squad” in Iraq after GWB 43 handed them the victory?”

  7. Anon E. Moose, proud owner of Silk City Bourbon ver 2.36/114 says:

    I’d love to have a Garbage Plate Truck concession at the grand opening. Unfortunately I suspect that’s not the “branding” “aesthetic” that Wegman’s corporate is going for (think Whole Foods rip off with pricing to match). Hell, if they wanted truly authentic they’d get Danny Wegman (current CEO, grandson of the founder) down here in one of the exotic sports cars that he routinely would get stopped by police racing around Rochester in. Bonus points if he brought one of his arm candy girlfriends.

  8. D-FENS says:

    Quebec shooter yelled “allahu Akbar” and uses a (banned) AK-47 in Quebec City? Shot at a mosque? WTF?

  9. Anon E. Moose, proud owner of Silk City Bourbon ver 2.36/114 says:

    “Of course his supporters lack the brain function to understand this.”

    No, we just think it more fun to watch TDS sufferers go apoplectic over Trump doing what Obama did while his sheep bleated quietly on their Bommaphones.

  10. Juice Box says:

    Grim – Tag line Metroburb?

    Thay are trying really hard down in Holmdel with the old Bells Labs Campus.

    http://bell.works/

    #metroburb

  11. Ben says:

    “If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.” – Paul Krugman, Election Night 2016. The DJIA is + 1,761 pts (just shy of 10%) in the two months since the [ahem] Nobel Laureate economist and resident scholar at the august CUNY institute of 13th grade education brought forth his prognostication.

    BTW, how did Obama and the democrats do mopping up the “jayvee squad” in Iraq after GWB 43 handed them the victory?

    I think the markets are long due for a correction. This market has been so pumped up with monetary policy that it’s bound to deflate. I can’t wait for people to scream to high heaven about who’s fault it is when it is likely inevitable.

  12. Fast Eddie says:

    The media is comparing the picture of Ivanka Trump in a dress to that of the Germans dancing to Richard Wagner as the Jews were being lead to the gas chambers.

    Oh look! It’s the SAG awards!! But this is different of course because these people care!

    http://www.usmagazine.com/stylish/pictures/sag-awards-2017-red-carpet-fashion-what-the-stars-wore-w463672

  13. D-FENS says:

    Chuck Schumer crying is my new ringtone.

  14. D-FENS says:

    Chuck Schumer crying is my new ringt0ne.

  15. Bagholder says:

    Saudis welcomed with open arms while green card holders are detained.

    Security seems very low on the priority list.

  16. Juice Box says:

    re: inadmissible aliens

    Name the country where we do not have active Military Ops?

    1)Iraq – Roughly 5,200 U.S. troops presently stationed in Iraq, daily missions

    2) Iran – Drones Flyovers and Persian Gulf US Navy patrols

    3) Syria- Bombing campaigns weekly. On 19 January Obama sent US airstrikes delivered by Boeing B-52 Stratofortress to strike the former Syrian Army base in Aleppo .

    4) Libya – Obama sent B-2 bombers to drop 108 precision-guided bombs on Jan 19th to attach ISIS Camps.

    5) Somalia – 200 to 300 American Special Operations troops as reported by NY Times engaged in shadow war.

    Sudan -Another 200 US troops sent by Obama are pre-positioned in nearby Djibouti for ongoing Special Ops missions.

    Yemen – Jan 29th -A member of U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six was killed and three others were wounded in a raid against a group of senior Al Qaeda leaders in central Yemen.

  17. Grab them by the puzzy says:

    @paulkrugman

    You know,
    maybe I should stop calling this the Trump-Putin administration,
    and start calling it Bannon-Putin instead.

  18. Grab them by the puzzy says:

    Fake News ======>

    Fast Eddie says:
    January 30, 2017 at 9:13 am
    The media is comparing the picture of Ivanka Trump in a dress to that of the Germans dancing to Richard Wagner as the Jews were being lead to the gas chambers.

    Oh look! It’s the SAG awards!! But this is different of course because these people care!

    http://www.usmagazine.com/stylish/pictures/sag-awards-2017-red-carpet-fashion-what-the-stars-wore-w463672

  19. The Original NJ ExPat says:

    Puzzy has his knickers in what will work out to an 8 year knot.

  20. Steamturd, Hate Trumps Cankles says:

    Krugman, constantly proven wrong. But still a hero to the stupid. I guess this makes sense.

    Even Obama, who worked fervently to end torture killed according to his own administration’s official numbers, 2,436 people in 473 counterterrorism strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and Libya between January 2009 and the end of 2015. Boy that list looks awfully familiar. But let’s let them all in. There wouldn’t be any terrorists in hiding among them right? Especially not among the 400 or so innocent civilians who were caught in the crossfire.

  21. Grab them by the puzzy says:

    @williamjordann

    Days until achieving MAJORITY disapproval
    from @Gallup

    Reagan: 727
    Bush I: 1336
    Clinton: 573
    Bush II: 1205
    Obama: 936

    Trump: 8. days.

  22. Steamturd, Hate Trumps Cankles says:

    Good thing approval numbers don’t count for sh1t eh Anon?

  23. Grab them by the puzzy says:

    “I want to bring everything crashing down,
    and destroy all of today’s establishment.”

    -Steve Bannon

  24. chicagofinance says:

    Sunday Mass (clot Edition):
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLliQOYMzJs

  25. The Original NJ ExPat says:

    typical democrat

    Sunday Mass (clot Edition):
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLliQOYMzJs

  26. Steamturd, Hate Trumps Cankles says:

    My only guess is that he was abused.

  27. Fast Eddie says:

    Fake News======>

    Grab them by the puzzy says:

    January 30, 2017 at 11:52 am

    “I want to bring everything crashing down,
    and destroy all of today’s establishment.”

    -Steve Bannon

  28. D-FENS says:

    Is Muslim Brotherhood Organizing Travel Ban Protests?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6vdm7SQiHk

  29. Fast Eddie says:

    Fake Tears======>

    Schumer

  30. D-FENS says:

    Trump’s heartland voters shrug off global uproar over immigration ban

    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-immigration-supporters-idUSKBN15E0BH?il=0

  31. Fast Eddie says:

    Trump: “Where was all the outrage from Democrats and the opposition party (the media) when our jobs were fleeing our country?”

  32. Grab them by the puzzy says:

    c’mon Fake News, even you can get a job, our refugees will be OK

    @ABC
    Starbucks CEO says coffee chain will hire 10,000 refugees over 5 years in response to Pres. Trump’s executive order.

    Fast Eddie says:
    January 30, 2017 at 12:37 pm
    Trump: “Where was all the outrage from Democrats and the opposition party (the media) when our jobs were fleeing our country?”

  33. Essex says:

    Donald Trump’s corporate tax repatriation plan
    By “legal corporate tax shelters” I mean the practice by which U.S. corporations are choosing not to repatriate profits earned in overseas markets because they would pay an exceptionally high tax rate on that income if they did. The U.S. corporate income tax rate of 35% trails only the United Arab Emirates and Chad. Because U.S. corporate income tax rates are so high relative to other developed countries, U.S. corporations now have nearly $2.5 trillion in profits stashed in overseas markets, based on a new report from Capital Economics. Comparatively, this figure has doubled since 2008, and it’s up more than six-fold since 2002 when income stashed overseas accounted for less than $400 billion.

  34. yome says:

    Where is the outrage when O put a 6 months stop on refugees coming from Iraq to US in 2011?

  35. Fast Eddie says:

    Yome:

    You read my mind.

  36. The Original NJ ExPat says:

    I lost my cheat sheet. So Democrats love Mexicans and Muslims, but hate Cubans and all non-Mexican Christians?

  37. The Original NJ ExPat says:

    Who will Spicer call on first today? Christian Science Monitor?

  38. The Original NJ ExPat says:

    Wolf Blitzer is my favorite game show host (Anderson Cooper is a close 2nd).

  39. Fast Eddie says:

    ExPat:

    LOL!

  40. Comrade Nom Deplume, Who doesn't care when you got your bottle. says:

    I can understand why CNN and my liberal friends were not commenting on the Quebec shooting until now. Apparently, one of the original suspects named was a Muslim. Also, they used rifles banned in the United States, and the shooter apparently reloaded twice. None of those facts are reportable under liberal dogma.

    However, the Quebec authorities have since clarified and reported that the Muslim they arrested is actually a witness ( I guess you arrest witnesses in Canada).

    Already, BBC has revised its reporting and included references to Trump in its report. So far, US outlets have not done that however once the identity of the shooter is published here, expect the news outlets to mention Trump prominently in their reporting on the Quebec shooting.

    Quebec does have a pretty significant nationalist identity population and IMHO, Quebeckers are far more xenophobic than other Canadians. I would not be surprised if this guy turned out to be another Dylan Root type character

  41. Comrade Nom Deplume, Who doesn't care when you got your bottle. says:

    I should clarify that BBC was not including references to Trump and it’s earlier reporting. That only happened after Quebec authorities clarified that the Muslim arrested was a witness, not a suspect.

  42. The Great Pumpkin says:

    Exactly!

    Fast Eddie says:
    January 30, 2017 at 12:37 pm
    Trump: “Where was all the outrage from Democrats and the opposition party (the media) when our jobs were fleeing our country?”

  43. Comrade Nom Deplume, Who doesn't care when you got your bottle. says:

    Yome,

    I am old enough to remember the Iran crisis under Carter. He not only blocked Iranians from coming to the United States, he ordered deportations of Iranians who were already here under visas.

    It was not a blanket deportation; only Iranians with certain visas or with certain status were deported. But they were deportations, not refusals to allow entry. And the courts let that action stand.

    There was a guy living in my dormitory named Behrooz. He was as characteristically American as you could get and he lived in absolute terror that he would be deported back to Iran. He figured he would be a dead man if that happened.
    He also never strayed very far from campus because he was worried that he be a dead man if locals found out he was Iranian.

  44. Comrade Nom Deplume, Who doesn't care when you got your bottle. says:

    Fiscal crisis in Illinois continues to bubble away. I think they kicked the van down the road in hopes of a dem sweep and a bailout. Not likely now.

  45. Comrade Nom Deplume, Who doesn't care when you got your bottle. says:

    Van=can. My autocorrect hates the word “can”

  46. Juice Box says:

    LMAO!
    “Democrat party leaders today already have taken a firm stance against President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee currently known only as ‘question mark’ “

  47. Bagholder says:

    ‘LMAO!
    “Democrat party leaders today already have taken a firm stance against President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee currently known only as ‘question mark’ “’

    I can’t imagine where they got that idea.

    Spicer: ‘The president has a right to have his nominees taken up’

    And now they’re going for irony.

  48. The Original NJ ExPat says:

    Oblahblah couldn’t keep his yap shut even two weeks. He’s trying to rile up protesters, I guess?

    Barack Obama Praises Protests Against President Trump’s Immigration Ban: ‘American Values Are at Stake’

    http://time.com/4653909/barack-obama-immigration-ban-protests/

  49. Juice Box says:

    re: 3:25 PM.

    Fake news? Isn’t Obama is hiding away from the world on Richard Branson’s $80,000 a night Neckar Island? There is no press pool following him anymore….

  50. The Original NJ ExPat says:

    Proabaly is Fake News since I saw it on CNN first and HuffPo is carrying it.

    re: 3:25 PM.

    Fake news? Isn’t Obama is hiding away from the world on Richard Branson’s $80,000 a night Neckar Island? There is no press pool following him anymore….

  51. Steamturd, Hate Trumps Cankles says:

    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-securitycouncil-idUSKBN15E2C2

    Speaking loudly and carrying a nano stick. Obviously, the temporary boot of the security council was a warning shot about publishing BS golden shower dossiers. Trump might grab pussy, but he certainly isn’t one.

  52. Steamturd, Hate Trumps Cankles says:

    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-securitycouncil-idUSKBN15E2C2

    Speaking loudly and carrying a nano stick. Obviously, the temporary boot of the security council was a warning shot about publishing BS golden shower dossiers. Trump might grab puzzy, but he certainly isn’t one.

  53. Comrade Nom Deplume, Who doesn't care when you got your bottle. says:

    Trump should punk the dems by announcing the nomination of Judge Alfred E. Neumann from the 12th Circuit Court of Appesls and see how many dems announce their opposition to Judge Neumann’s radical philosophy

  54. Fabius Maximus says:

    Not usually big on the conspiracies, but this has legs. Number 4 is scary. I keep asking what is going on at State. But getting rid of the ambassadors, they are an anachronism, right?

    https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/trial-balloon-for-a-coup-e024990891d5#.4s0728coy

  55. Fast Eddie says:

    Fabius,

    Somewhere Obama is reading that link above and saying, “D@mn, why didn’t I think of that!”

  56. Steamturd thinking about the remains of Hillary's umbilical stump says:

    Just like the golden showers. Very believable. But run with it anyhow if it sounds good. I was glad Trump sent that warning shot to the CIA. Bet they won’t pull one of those stunts again.

  57. Fabius Maximus says:

    Gary, should that be Hillary.
    I think you need to let O go, his term is over.

  58. Fabius Maximus says:

    Stu,

    I see the end game here where they asset strip anything that’s not nailed down. Trunp and one half are in it for the money, the wingnuts are in it for the control.

  59. Steamturd thinking about the remains of Hillary's umbilical stump says:

    Anon blamed his spoiled milk at breakfast this morning on W.

  60. Steamturd thinking about the remains of Hillary's umbilical stump says:

    I don’t think Trump is in it for the money at all. That’s an easy cop out. I think it’s all ego.

  61. Fabius Maximus says:

    I think he debt leveraged up to his orange balls. But the news is getting more and more worrying.

    You say the comments were acceptable, others disagree.
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/30/calling-the-holocaust-sad-is-the-first-step-towards-denying-it-ever-happened

  62. Essex says:

    “It’s No Game (Part 2)”

    Silhouettes and shadows
    watch the revolution
    No more free steps to heaven
    Just walkie-talkie – heaven or hearth
    Just big heads and drums – full speed and pagan
    And it’s no game

    I am barred from the event
    I really don’t understand the situation
    So where’s the moral
    People have their fingers broken
    To be insulted by these fascists it’s so degrading
    And it’s no game

    Documentaries on refugees,
    couples ‘gainst the target
    Throw a rock against the road,
    and it breaks into pieces
    Draw the blinds on yesterday,
    and it’s all so much scarier
    Put a bullet in my brain,
    and it makes all the papers

    And it’s no game

    Children round the world,
    put camel shit on the walls

    They’re making carpets on treadmills,
    or garbage sorting

    And it’s no game

  63. Fabius Maximus says:

    Well, Americans
    What, nothin’ better to do?
    Why don’t you kick yourself out?
    You’re an immigrant too

    Who’s usin’ who?
    What should we do?
    Well, you can’t be a pimp
    And a prostitute too

    https://youtu.be/1OjTspCqvk8

  64. Fabius Maximus says:

    Eddie Ray, and the rest of the JD’s

    Still sitting on the sidelines.

    http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/trump-immigration-executive-order-234401

  65. Fabius Maximus says:

    Can I file this under WOW!

    “those already admitted to this country with the consent of the citizenry have unalienable rights. They cannot be indefinitely detained. However, they can be deported”

    https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2017/01/trump-immigration-executive-order-fact-fiction

  66. Comrade Nom Deplume, Who doesn't care when you got your bottle. says:

    Rory,

    She was already gone. And she was an acolyte. I predicted exactly this sort of thing on Facebook. It is a nonstory. More kabuki theatre but relevant in one respect: it is also an act of the resistance so it isn’t going to be fully accepted as a reasoned legal opinion unless ACLU wins completely. If ACLU loses, it illuminates the fact that DOJ was packed with Obamunists. And I can name names of those who got in and those who were so extreme that even the dems wouldn’t fight for them.

    As for the actual, substantive law, I said before that it isn’t my bailiwick. You probably know more about it than I.

  67. Comrade Nom Deplume, Who doesn't care when you got your bottle. says:

    Rory,

    You do know that ambassadorships are patronage jobs, don’t you? They usually go to the highest bidders. An embassy or consulate can function fine without one.

    I’m beginning to think you know less about the executive branch than you do about law.

  68. yome says:

    Fab, 11.35 this is probably true. Green card holders can not come back in US after 6 mos of absence without an extension from US embassy. Green Card holders committing crimes are deportable. This are guest in this Country until they become US Citizen. Some choose not to become US Citizen and stay Guest for more than 20 years until a law was passed requiring them to apply US Citizen up to 10 years

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