New Jersey

With its lease of 343 Murray Hill Parkway, Axis Global Logistics will be able to service its growing client base in the New York City metropolitan market, according to NAI James E. Hanson.

Law firm Landman Corsi Ballaine & Ford inked a 10-year lease extension and expansion to 23,563 square feet and will now occupy the 22nd and 23rd floors at the 543,494-square-foot One Gateway office building.

The financing was announced by JLL Capital Markets, which worked on the deal on behalf of Summit to place eight uncrossed, fixed-rate loans with terms of 10, 12 and 15 years with a correspondent life insurance company.

The report notes that city's average daily rate rose 5.8% year-over-year to $202.41 and revenue rose 4.3% year-over-year to $707 million.

BioReference Laboratories is the firm's largest tenant leasing more than 227,037 square feet in Elmwood Park spread across four buildings in Alfred Sanzari Enterprises' portfolio.

KBS Real Estate Investment Trust II sold the complex to an unidentified private buyer. CBRE, which represented KBS in the transaction, identified the new owner as a private New York City-based investor backed by offshore capital.

Rockport Mortgage Corp. closed a $24-million FHA loan for the. Verona Senior Citizens Apartments in Verona and $27 million in FHA financing for Mansion Apartments in Pine Hill.

The plan calls for enacting 0.75% and 2% utility energy efficiency standards for natural gas and electricity, respectively, improving energy efficiency programs, adopting new clean energy and energy efficiency financing mechanisms and strengthening building and energy codes and appliance standards.