HAMILTON TWP., NJ-New World Restaurants, which operates the Manhattan and Einstein Bros.' bagel chains, is also shedding its East Coast production facility.

CARLSTADT, NJ-ORIX Real Estate Equities and RREEF have teamed up to buy an 18.4-acre site on which the multi-tenant Meadowlands Distribution Center will shortly rise.

SOMERSET, NJ-Norway's Ekornes Inc. will move its North American base from another location here after a transaction arranged by GM Realty Advisors and Binswanger/Klatskin.

MANCHESTER TWP., NJ-The asset, acquired by Kay Realty Services and Holualoa Arizona for an undisclosed price, serves as the "downtown" for an 11,000-home retirement community.

TRENTON, NJ-In his state-of-the-state address, New Jersey's governor brands "mindless sprawl" as the root of most of the Garden State's problems.

FLORHAM PARK, NJ-The company, which has been opening Marriott-branded properties, expects to build four to six per year of either brand in the tri-state area going forward.

MAYS LANDING, NJ-The signings, led by a 12,000-sf Boater's World relocation and arranged by Metro Commercial Real Estate, come at AMC Delancy's Hamilton Shopping Center.

BRIDGEWATER, NJ-After acquiring most of the 800,000-sf MiddleBrook Crossroads in 2000, the company brings the rest of one of the region's oldest industrial parks into its portfolio with the latest acquisition.