Sean Ryanis associate editor of Real Estate New Jersey, fromwhich this article is excerpted.

New Jersey's known for its retail--its dense, affluentpopulation has made the Garden State desirable like no other state,although some retail formats still work better than others. RENJassociate editor Sean Ryan asked four of the top people in themarket to "take its temperature." Mario Dudzinski, vicepresident of real estate for Garden Commercial Properties in ShortHills; Matt Harding, president of Levin Management in NorthPlainfield; Beth Krinsky, senior vice president at WeichertCommercial in Iselin, and Chuck Lanyard, principal anddirector of brokerage services at The Goldstein Group in Glen Rock,offer their thoughts on how the market is doing, what retailproducts are hot and what are some of the problems facingretail.

RENJ: From your perspective, what's the current conditionof the shopping center/retail market in New Jersey?