MADISON, NJ—Older office properties are benefiting from careful planning when repositioning for future use, according to Kimberly Sacramone, design director of the interior architecture practice of HLW International. In an exclusive audio interview, Sacramone, who heads the firm's new NJ office, tells GlobeSt.com what CEOs want in modern office design.

PHILADELPHIA, PA—In an unusual crossover from fashion to food, Urban Outfitters, which owns Anthropologie, Bhldn, Free People, Terrain and Urban Outfitters brands, is acquiring substantially all of The Vetri Family group of restaurants including award winning Pizzeria Vetri.

HOLMDEL, NJ—Suttons International, an international logistics company, and Spirent Communications, an international telecommunications company, have both leased space at Bell Works in Holmdel, NJ, the iconic former headquarters of Bell Laboratories.

EDISON, NJ—Mack-Cali Realty Corporation has acquired 333 Thornall Street in Edison, NJ, and will connect the building with one that it already owns next door at 343 Thornall Street. It's part of Mack-Cali's strategic repositioning that focuses in part on transit-oriented office space.

PHILADELPHIA, PA—Holliday Fenoglio Fowler has arranged an $18.5 million refinancing for West Goshen Town Centre, a 135,650-square-foot retail center anchored by ShopRite in the suburban Philadelphia community of West Chester, PA.

HAMILTON TOWNSHIP, NJ—Regal Entertainment has signed a lease with IP Associates, owner of Independence Plaza in Hamilton NJ, to locate a state-of-the-art 12-screen digital movie theater with luxury seating in the shopping center. It caps a successful leasing campaign that filled 115,000 square feet of the center in the last eight months.

JERSEY CITY, NJ—Onyx Equities and Rubenstein Partners have completed a $20 million renovation at 30 Montgomery Street, one of Jersey City's original waterfront office buildings. The 15-story, 320,000-square-foot tower has been transformed into state-of-art, class A space and expanded with the addition of 8,000 square feet of retail space.

CARLSTADT, NJ—Students who save a few shekels feasting on ramen noodles can rest easy about the noodle supply in Northern New Jersey. Sun Noodle, maker of custom-made, authentic Japanese-style ramen noodles and related products, has purchased a 42,000-square-foot industrial building at 40 Kero Road in Carlstadt.