SPARTA, NJ-Although details are sketchy, local officials say they want a combination of commercial and residential uses fringing a highway bypass on the edge of the community's existing downtown.

TRENTON, NJ-The latest version of the McGreevey administration's effort to control sprawl adds 300,000 acres to the "green" zones--those areas in which development is encouraged.

CLIFTON, NJ-The North Jersey facility was acquired from Great Lakes Paper by Craftline Manufacturing in a complicated transaction arranged by Lerman Sanders Realty.

PARSIPPANY, NJ-A new lease agreement adds more than 7,000 sf to the medical management services company's headquarters operations at 20 Waterview Blvd.

MT. LAUREL, NJ-The three separate transactions, two in New Jersey and one in neighboring Pennsylvania, have a combined value of more than $1.5 million.

LYNDHURST, NJ-Encap Golf Holdings gets the nod to start work on a project that will turn 950 acres of former landfills into four golf courses, hotel and resort complexes, and office, residential and retail components.

MORRISTOWN, NJ-The nine separate deals include industrial, retail and other properties in Northern and Central New Jersey and one in Upstate New York.

FAIRFIELD, NJ-The contracting firm and a sister company will nearly double the size of its existing operations with the move. The company will lease out the rest of its new 55,000-sf building.