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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sagard Real Estate, formerly known as EverWest Real Estate Investors, a leading real estate investment advisor, today has announced the successful acquisition of a 47,000 square foot newly constructed warehouse in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The warehouse, located at 390 Central Ave in East Rutherford, NJ is located 11 miles from midtown Manhattan and 14 miles from the Port of Newark.

“We are very pleased to acquire this state-of-the-art distribution warehouse in one of the most coveted industrial locations in the state. The property is 14 miles from Port Newark, and 17 miles from Port Jersey, and is situated in the Meadowlands submarket, home to some of the largest national and regional distributors looking to service the port with excellent connectivity within the greater tri-state area,” stated John Maurer, Senior Managing Director, Head of Equity, for Sagard Real Estate.

The fully occupied building includes 3,000 square feet of office space, parking for 41 vehicles, and over 45,000 square feet of warehouse space. Fully leased by Restaurant Technologies, the commercial building will operate as the company’s Northern New Jersey Hub, serving over 80 fast food and fast casual restaurants around the Northern New Jersey area.

Consistent with the firm’s strategy of acquiring high-demand assets in well-connected and sought-after locations, this acquisition follows Sagard Real Estate’s successful track record, including the recent purchase of 135 Maddox Road in Nashville.

About Sagard Real Estate

Sagard Real Estate is a real estate investment advisor and operator providing investment management services throughout the U.S. including acquisitions, asset management, development and property management for our investors. With $5 billion in assets under management, our clients invest in a variety of commercial real estate investment strategies through separate accounts and commingled funds. Sagard Real Estate is based in Denver with regional investment offices in New York City, Charlotte, Austin, Los Angeles and San Francisco metro areas. Sagard Real Estate is a part of Sagard, a multi-strategy alternative asset management firm. Sagard’s leading shareholder is Power Corporation of Canada, an international management and holding company that focuses on financial services in North America, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit www.Sagard.com/RealEstate.

About Sagard

Sagard is a multi-strategy alternative asset management firm with more than US$15B under management, 125 portfolio companies, and 300 professionals. We invest in venture capital, private equity, private credit, real estate, and royalties. We deliver flexible capital, an entrepreneurial culture, and a global network of investors, commercial partners, advisors, and value-creation experts. The firm has offices in Canada, the United States and Europe. For more information, visit www.sagard.com.

Rutherford is no longer a dry town.

The borough of some 19,000 residents has awarded a liquor license to Song'E Napule, the popular pizzeria owned by Naples-born Ciro Iovine. It is the first business to receive a liquor license in town since the late 1800s.

"Rutherford is no longer a dry borough," said Bob Kakoleski, the borough administrator.

Kakoleski said that after a non-binding referendum measure in November 2020 was approved by a small margin of the borough's voters — "It was not favored by an overwhelming majority, more like 54% of voters said yes" — the borough this past December finally was able to auction one of the six liquor licenses that it can sell to restaurants. (COVID-19 slowed everything down.)

New Jersey's antiquated liquor license laws date back to Prohibition-era thinking. The state allows one liquor consumption license per every 3,000 residents in a town; Rutherford has around 19,000, therefore six licenses. Because of the cap, licenses are expensive in areas with high demand. The average is thought to be about $350,000 — though some are as low as $50,000 or as high as $2.3 million.

Iovine was the only bidder in Rutherford, offering $300,000. The minimum bid the town allowed was $150,000.

"He's probably kicking himself in the pants," Kakoleski said.

Iovine, who opened his Rutherford location in December 2021 (he has two others in New York City), could not be reached for comment. But in an Instagram post, he seemed thrilled.

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"Proud to receive liquor license from the Rutherford Chamber of Commerce," the post said. "We are really happy to be the first business in Rutherford to own a liquor license since the late1800s. Thank you Rutherford."

There aren't any bars in Rutherford, and with the very recent exception of Song'E Napule, every restaurant is BYOB. Locals walk across the tracks to East Rutherford for bars, like The New Park Tavern and the Blarney Station Pub.

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Saddle River is now the only dry town in North Jersey; there are several others in the state, including Ocean City and Wildwood Crest.

Over the years, there have been efforts to overturn the state's liquor license laws, many arguing that it hurts businesses, downtowns and New Jersey's dining scene. But efforts in the past have been thwarted again and again.

The reaction in Rutherford to its first restaurant liquor license?

"It's mixed," Kakoleski said. "Rutherford liked being a dry town. It liked being different. It's a conservative community."

But, he added, the makeup of the town is changing. "People from Hoboken, Jersey City, even from Brooklyn, are moving into town. We have a train station, and our proximity to New York City is a draw, too."

And, perhaps, restaurants with liquor licenses also will draw people.

MikeWorldWide (MWW), a leading public relations firm, announced today a relocation of its main New Jersey office from its current home in East Rutherford to a new space in Hasbrouck Heights.

For the past 30 years, MWW’s office has been located at the Metropolitan Center overlooking MetLife Stadium. Company leaders say that the new office, located at 500 Route 17 S. in Hasbrouck Heights near Route 46 and Interstate 80, was selected after an exhaustive, months-long, statewide search.

The firm says it decided to keep its main New Jersey office in the Meadowlands area because of its proximity to the state’s economic and population centers as well as its accessibility.

MWW, which was founded here in the Garden State in 1986, also stresses the move reaffirms its commitment to New Jersey. In addition to the Hasbrouck Heights office, MWW has locations in Trenton, New York, London, Los Angeles, Denver and Washington, D.C.

“While we continue to grow as a firm and extend our national and global reach, we will never forget our roots nor waver in our commitment to New Jersey, where I founded this company more than 35 years ago,” said Michael Kempner, founder and CEO of MikeWorldWide, in a press release. “Our new office keeps MWW at the center of the action in New Jersey and the greater Metropolitan Area, allowing us to further enhance our client services and attract new talent.”

Firm leaders also point out that this location allows MWW to maintain its high-level of client service and collaboration while balancing the realities of the current post-pandemic work environment.

“New Jersey is home to many of our team members as well as clients and some of the largest, most successful brands in the world. We are here to serve them,” said William Murray, executive vice president and national director of public affairs, MWW. “As is true with many organizations, we have learned since the pandemic to adapt and work differently to get the job done. Embracing remote and hybrid work has led to increased production and employee satisfaction, and many of our clients have opted for virtual rather than in-person meetings to stay connected. Our new Hasbrouck Heights location gives us what we need to support our employees and deliver for our clients.”

RUTHERFORD − Jason Rosado came to the plate in the bottom of the seventh inning with no out and two runners on, and he triggered a bench-clearing celebration.

Rosado's single to left-center field lifted St. Mary to a 4-3 victory over Rutgers Prep in Saturday's North Non-Public B baseball championship at Tamblyn Field.

“I just had to get the job done,” the senior second baseman said.

Top-seeded St. Mary (20-9) erased a 3-1 deficit by scoring two runs in the fifth. Senior Jacob Herrera's two-out, two-run single to center tied it, 3-3.

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St. Mary had taken a 1-0 lead in the fourth. Starting sophomore pitcher Blayze Conte led off with a single up the middle and later scored on junior Kyle Watson's infield single.

Senior Xavier Arana pitched two scoreless innings in relief to earn the win. Arana, the No. 9 hitter, also scored the winning run after leading off the seventh by being hit by a pitch.

“There were people here who almost wanted the win more than the kids, and I’m happy we delivered,” St. Mary coach Nigel Archibald said of Gaels fans who attended a game that began at 9:47 a.m.

Rutgers Prep (14-15) scored all three runs in the fifth for the 3-1 lead. Sophomore Cody Rullo had a two-run double to left-center and freshman Ethan Nepomuceno had a run-scoring double to right.

What it means

St. Mary advances to Thursday’s NJSIAA Non-Public B championship at Veterans Park in Hamilton and will face the South champion Gloucester Catholic. The Gaels last won a state title in 2019.

This is Archibald’s first season leading St. Mary after serving as a longtime assistant at other North Jersey schools, including, St. Joseph.

“There’s a lot of people here who support the program,” said Archibald, 39. “I’m the new guy, we’ve been building, new faces for me, but they came out today in true support for us, and I’m so thrilled. That’s what I want to be. I want to be a part of a program that has a little bit of culture, and people that believe in it, and that’s what they showed today.”

Key inning

It came down to the seventh, and St. Mary made plays at the plate, on the mound, and behind the plate.

Rosado was the third batter of the inning for the Gaels and all three reached base. After Arana was hit by a pitch, senior leadoff hitter Tyler Giordano drew his second walk of the game, then Arana and Giordano advanced a base on a wild pitch. Rosado pulled a fastball into left-center and the Gaels’ dugout emptied.

“I just had to put the ball in play, move the runners over, and try to get the run in,” Rosado said, “and that was pretty much it.”

In the top of the seventh, Arana and junior catcher Kyle Watson did the job. After Rutgers Prep senior James Jackman led off with an infield single, Arana induced an infield pop-up, outfield flyout, and Watson threw out Jackman trying to steal second.

By the numbers

The meat of the St. Mary order delivered with six of the team's eight hits. Rosado, the No. 2 hitter, went 2 for 4, reaching base in the first on a bunt up the first-base line in which the ball came to a stop on the chalk. Conte, the No. 3 hitter, went 2 for 3 with two hard singles up the middle. Herrera, the cleanup hitter, went 2 for 3 with singles to left and center.

“A couple of pitcher’s counts, and they fought hard, and the middle of their order can hit,” Rutgers Prep coach Larry Santowasso said. “We knew that before we got here today, and they put some decent swings on some decent pitches, and that’s what good players do.”

Arana threw a scoreless sixth and seventh. He allowed two infield singles and struck out one. In the sixth, during a middle-infield error, Conte took a late throw to first and threw home to Watson, who tagged the runner at the plate to end the inning.

“I just went in there and did a job and did what I had to do, got a win,” said Arana, who also singled and scored in the fifth. “Stay focused, pitch, get a win.”

RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Rutherford has been a dry town for more than a century.

Even though many restaurants are BYOB, the borough just handed out its first liquor license.

Song'E Napule is known for its traditional Neapolitan pizza. All of the ingredients are imported from Italy.

For the first time, customers can order a variety of cocktails and other alcoholic beverages to go with their favorite dish. The trattoria and pizzeria is the first in the borough to be awarded a liquor license.

"I think it's amazing. I mean, amazing. People love a drink when you eat the pizza with a beer or wine - amazing wine," owner Ciro Iovine said.

A little over 50% of voters approved the non-binding referendum in Rutherford. Officials say the move will give the borough a big boost, especially as businesses try to recover from the pandemic.

"There will be a nice array of restaurants that you can still do BYOB, which some of us love to do sometimes, but also I think this will increase the quality of and the status of restaurants that come into our town," Rutherford Councilwoman Maria Begg-Roberson said.

Rutherford hasn't awarded a liquor license since the late 1800s. Some residents say it's hard to believe it has taken so long.

"I think it's going to be really fun to be able to get a drink in my hometown of Rutherford which I've always had to travel for," resident Ally MacConchie said.

Iovine paid $300,000 for the license, which cost a lot more than other states. Official said that's because of New Jersey's antiquated liquor laws.

The manager says there has been an uptick in business since getting the license on May 17.

"It's much more people coming in, and the vibe has changed a lot. I think we are offering a new service to the town," Pietro Caldarelli said.

Borough officials said they've got five more liquor licenses available to bid on, and they're hoping that process will bring more restaurants to the borough.

Gov. Phil Murphy is pushing to change New Jersey's liquor laws so that more businesses can bid on them.

Christine Sloan

Christine Sloan is an Emmy Award-winning reporter, who covers New Jersey for CBS 2 New York. Sloan re-joined the station in January 2023. She also worked at CBS 2 New York from 2004 to 2016.

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