BRIDGEWATER, NJ— Nestlé Health Science is investing $70 million to create a Nestlé Product Technology Center in Bridgewater, NJ, where Advance Realty and CrossHarbor Capital Partners have signed the food company to a long-term lease at the former Sanofi Aventis campus.

ELIZABETH, NJ—Holliday Fenoglio Fowler arranged $23.8 million in construction financing for a 138,642-square-foot, state-of-the-art freezer warehouse in Elizabeth, NJ, that rolls directly into permanent financing to avoid interest rate risk.

PHILADELPHIA, PA—Chicago-based Brennan Investment Group, a private real estate investment firm that acquires, develops, and operates industrial facilities, arranged a sale-leaseback with Markel Corporation of Markel's 168,000 square foot facility located at 435 School Lane in Plymouth Township, PA.

PARAMUS, NJ—Retail vacancy rates in New Jersey were stable at just over six percent for the first half of 2015 vs. the end of 2014, according to Chuck Lanyard, president of The Goldstein Group, which conducts the survey of 22 retail corridors in Northern and Central New Jersey.

WALL TOWNSHIP, NJ—Sitar Realty Company - TCN Worldwide has brokered the $5.3 million sale of a 26 acre industrial property that formerly housed Point Pleasant Beer Distributors. That works out to about $56 per square foot.

PHILADELPHIA, PA — Marcus & Millichap named John Wilson a senior associate and director of the firm's National Retail Group in the Philadelphia office, according to Brenton Baskin, regional manager of the office. Pennsylvania-native Wilson has worked in the commercial real estate industry since 2001.

WOODBRIDGE, NJ — Onyx Equities' strong growth continued during the first half of 2015 as the company says that it closed 73 leases during the first two quarters for nearly 500,000 square feet. This represents about a 25 percent increase in absorption over last year's first-half leasing total of 400,000 square feet.

CRANFORD AND METUCHEN, NJ—Woodmont Properties has hit on a successful formula for its transit-oriented developments. Its Woodmont Station in Cranford, opened earlier this year, has completely leased out, just as the firm has just broken ground for a similar community, Woodmont Metro at Metuchen Station.