Bender's destination is the historic 650,000-sf, 34-story artdeco 744 Broad St., also known as the Newark National Building.While it will be eclipsed in the near future by new construction inJersey City, the tower has been New Jersey's tallest commercialbuilding since it was erected in 1930.

Details of Bender's lease agreement with building owner CogswellRealty haven't been disclosed, other than the publisher will takethree floors. The building's largest floorplates are around 25,000sf, and prevailing rents for comparable space in the market is $25per sf.

Matthew Bender, a unit of Lexis-Nexis, is one of the top legalpublishing firms, producing legal forms and treatises authored bytop judges, lawyers and law professors. The company has 1,000employees in three New York cities and San Francisco; 250 employeesare involved in the Manhattan-to-Newark HQ move.