PRINCETON, NJ-The firm will try to fill the 130,000-sf building for a Berwind Property Group affiliate that recently bought it. Bank of America currently occupies about 40,000 sf.

MORRISTOWN, NJ-Metric Partners Growth Suite Investors, which once owned a string of hotel properties, will distribute its remaining cash to holders of partnership units.

RIDGEFIELD PARK, NJ-The signings come at the 167,000-sf 65 Challenger Rd., one of two buildings Hartz recently gave Newmark Real Estate the exclusive leasing assignment for.

KEYPORT, NJ-The planning board passes a resolution recommending the makeover of the former aircraft manufacturing site, which is currently under contract to be sold. Consultants estimate it may cost $20 million to remediate the tract.

NEWARK, NJ-The founder of the Kushner Cos. gets the max under a plea deal arranged last summer, when the developer pleaded guilty to a variety of charges.

JERSEY CITY-IXIS North America accounts for nearly 72,000 sf of that at the REIT's Harborside Financial Center Plaza 5 and HQ Global Workplaces is taking 22,000 sf.

RED BANK, NJ-The 26,000-sf project will replace a landmark tavern that local preservationists had fought to save. Construction is expected to start by the end of the year.

JERSEY CITY, NJ-The industrial facility, owned by Logistics Urban Renewal Corp. currently has 136,000 sf available for lease.