PARSIPPANY, NJ-Matt McDonough says cosmetics are crucial in the battle to get older suburban office buildings back in the game.

QUAKERTOWN-Optimum Hotel Brokerage has completed sale of the Best Western Quakertown.

LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ-Community Investment Strategies, a company with a strong record in the affordable housing field, has joined a consortium rebuilding lower-priced housing in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.

TRENTON, NJ-The national engineering firm Partner Engineering and Science purchased troubled Birdsall Engineering at a bankruptcy auction, with a court-approved deal - and will keep Birdsall going.

JERSEY CITY, NJ-"I think you probably could expect it sooner rather than later," says supermarket consultant Bill Bishop about the potential expansion of Amazon into this region with produce delivery..

ELIZABETH, NJ-Kislak sells three apartment buildings, one of them recently renovated, in a market that remains vibrant, said Kislak president Robert Holland.

CHERRY HILL, NJ-In what Markeim-Chalmers Inc.'s president says is a sign of a hotter market, the company has added Philadelphia metropolitan market specialist Jeff Arnold as a principal.

SADDLE BROOK, NJ-There are 171 prospective tenants shopping for 6 million square feet of commercial office space in New Jersey right now, CBRE tells GlobeSt.com's Antoinette Martin.