TRENTON, NJ-The state of New Jersey added 3,300 jobs during the month of April, which pushed the unemployment rate in the Garden State below 9%.

WASHINGTON, DC-Simpson Property Group LP of Denver has acquired the recently built 14W apartment building for $110 million.

FALLS CHURCH, VA-Computer Sciences Corp. reports it cut its worldwide workforce by 8,000 workers during fiscal 2013 and intends to slash its real estate holdings by 1 million square feet by the end of next year.

PITTSBURGH-The Standard Life Building is facing a foreclosure action by First Commonwealth Bank over financing in excess of $5 million.

EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ-The New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority is expected to approve developer Triple Five’s expansion plan at the American Dream complex at the Meadowlands at its meeting on Friday.

NEW YORK CITY-A plan by Malkin Holdings to file an initial public offering on a REIT that would include the Empire State Building and 20 other properties is very close to reaching the investor approval threshold needed to move forward.

NEW YORK CITY-Bowing to some criticism of its notice to raise rents in a few weeks by as much as 30% at its Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village development here, CW Capital Asset Management LLC pushed the effective rent increase date back to July 1.

CHARLOTTE, NC-Portman Holdings of Atlanta is gearing up marketing efforts in preparation to build a 15-story office building next to its Westin Charlotte Hotel.

WATERSOUND, FL-Developer The St. Joe Company reports it has inked a Letter of Intent with Cottondale, FL-based Green Circle Bio Energy Inc. on several projects in the Northwest region of the state.

ATLANTA-Tishman Speyer and Highwoods Properties are expected to be among the bidders for the One Alliance Center tower property in Buckhead that is on the market for sale through Dallas-based special servicer ORIX Capital Markets.