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Business Report From the Desk of Jim Kirkos

President & CEO, Meadowlands Chamber

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e are excited to present you with this issue of Meadowlands USA, which features legacy Meadowlands Chamber member Scarinci Hollenbeck on the cover in celebration of their 30 year anniversary. This law firm is truly a mainstay of the Meadowlands, from its founding back when development in the Meadowlands was seen by many as too challenging due to the regulatory and physical environment—while Founders & Managing Partners Donald Scarinci and Kenneth J. Hollenbeck recognized the tremendous potential for redevelopment. And since then, through tenacity and strategic advocacy, the firm has been involved in many of the area’s most important transactions and has played a key role in developing the thriving business community we have in the Meadowlands today. But, as the article headlines, the rest is not history for Scarinci Hollenbeck with the firm steadfastly continuing the legacy to present day.

In line with recognizing this legacy, we are proud be honoring one of Scarinci Hollenbeck’s partners, Theodore A. Schwartz, Partner in Scarinci Hollenbeck’s Environmental & Land Use group, at our 45th Annual Legacy Awards Reception where we honor distinguished leaders for the outstanding contributions they’ve made to the region. Schwartz is joined by a group of other Meadowlands legends: Mayor of Secaucus Michael Gonnelli, Co-Founder & Managing Principal of Onyx Equities John Saraceno Jr., President of Meadowlands Area YMCA Jane Egan and Meadowlands Area YMCA Chairman Ron Simoncini. The event is at The Venetian on October 11 and you can register at www.meadowlands.org. We hope to see you there!

Please check out the exclusive preview content on page 10 from our upcoming special supplement, The Meadowlands Economic Development & Relocation Guide, which will once again be unveiled at our Thought Leaders Conference on October 22. This special publication is produced by Meadowlands USA in partnership with the Meadowlands 2040 Foundation, Meadowlands Chamber, Meadowlands Liberty Convention & Visitors Bureau. Forsgate Industrial Partners, PSEG and NJM Insurance Group are also supporting sponsors of this publication. It will provide an economic profile of the Greater Meadowlands region, including facts and statistics, as well as resources and tools for businesses to grow. We hope you will consider joining us at this year’s Thought Leaders Conference and we look forward to sharing the full supplement with you in October.

Lastly, I would like to invite more organizations in the region to participate in Meadowlands USA and its supplementary publications. Please consider contributing an article to our magazine or offering editorial suggestions for future issues— contact Managing Editor Joe Garavente (JGaravente@meadowlands.org) to find out more about how you can get involved.

Stay tuned for more good things to come from Meadowlands USA and enjoy this issue!

Respectfully,

Jim Kirkos Follow me on twitter: @JimKirkos To stay informed about more activities from the Meadowlands Chamber please visit www.meadowlands.org.

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Business Trip Advice

13 tips for low-hassle, low-cost business travel

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f your upcoming travel include a trip for business (or even for family vacations!), be sure to consider these tips for lowhassle, low-cost travel. A little planning can make your travel cheaper with less hassle too: 1. Sign up for cloud email and documents.

No more thumb drives or syncing devices upon your return. The beauty of the cloud is that you can easily carry your emails, photos, graphics and documents along with you. Everything is available in one place upon your return, no matter which device you use.

2. Use noise cancelling earphones.

Earphones that limit outside noise let you work no matter how many cranky babies are seated around you on the plane or how many decibels are in that airport coffee shop. More importantly, they reduce noiserelated stress.

3. Consider alternative methods of ground transportation.

Services like Uber and Lyft are a good alternative to taxi cabs and rental cars in many cities. It can save money and it may be a convenient option in locations that lack good taxi service or where you don’t need a rental car. You use a mobile app to request a pickup so the convenience factor can be helpful.

4. Lunch is cheaper—make it your main meal.

At most restaurants lunch is considerably cheaper than dinner. Eating a big lunch late in the afternoon may save you money— especially over a week’s travel. Skip the evening meal with just a snack to tide you over.

5. Hit grocery stores instead of restaurants.

Who says you always have to eat in restaurants when traveling? Eating grocery store food instead of restaurant food can be cheaper and healthier. Price savvy travelers and those who watch their diets carefully

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look for nearby grocery stores. Buying food there instead of going to an often overpriced restaurant and taking it back to your room or to a local park will cut costs.

6. Make business your main travel purpose—and you may be able to deduct it.

While it may be tempting to get some business done while on a family trip or other travel for pleasure, that may not be the smartest move from a tax deduction standpoint. That’s because the IRS will only allow you to deduct for travel when primarily done for business. You can mix business with pleasure while on your business excursion—just be sure you don’t deduct for the non-business part of your trip.

And, most importantly, make sure you document your travel as being “primarily” for business.

7. When traveling internationally use a translation app.

Don’t count on everyone speaking English in your international travels.

Today there are translation apps you can use on your smartphone that will provide common travel phrases and requests to help you communicate. The TripLingo app, for example, not only provides a number of travel phrases but will also provide instant voice translations in up to 19 languages.

8. Get a micro projector.

If you give sales or customer presentations,

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you need some way to show your screen to a group. A micro-projector that can be used with a mobile device is a big help. Gone are the days of lugging a heavy projector around—or worse, asking the company you are visiting to use one.

9. Bring an extra charger.

No matter how many extra phone chargers you think you need, it’s easy to run out.

If you’re traveling all day and taking connecting flights, you may not be able to find charging stations at airports—and when you use a GPS app to navigate around in a rental car, it practically drains your smartphone battery in front of your eyes.

Even when I carry extra chargers and power everything up before I leave home or the hotel, I always seem to have something die before the day’s end. Do yourself a favor and get an additional backup battery/charger for your next trip.

10. Learn to pack efficiently.

Packing to save space is an art form and efficient packing can nearly double your space inside a suitcase or briefcase, which can also prevent costs associated with checked bags (or allow you to use a smaller carry-on, saving your back in the process).

Here are a few tips: • Roll clothes in plastic bags saves space and keep wrinkles down.

• Place smaller items inside larger items to save space.

• Explore mobile apps like the PackPoint

app to help you plan your packing for extended trips.

11. Email your important items to yourself in advance.

Always email yourself your full itinerary (including those all-important confirmation numbers) and a copy of your identification and your passport in advance. It’s a small step, but if you’ve ever had a briefcase left behind in a rental car or your pocket picked, you’ll appreciate this.

If your boarding passes, ID and/or passport get lost or stolen, you at least have access via email to recover them. This enables you to provide evidence to help you start the process of getting replacements and return home.

12. Check Seat Guru for the best seat choices.

Not all seats are the same on every plane or even on the same flight.

Seat Guru shows the configuration of the plane for each airline. It helps you determine the best seats by highlighting which seats have the most room, which seats don’t recline, which have issues such as being too close to restrooms and other annoyances that can make travel less pleasant.

Be sure to open up SeatGuru.com, which is a free service, in another browser window to check when making seat selections. You’ll be glad you did.

Anita Campbell manages several online communities and information websites, reaching over 6 million small business owners, stakeholders and entrepreneurs annually— including Small Business Trends, a daily publication about small business issues, andBizSugar.com, a small business social media site.

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13. Don’t overlook the importance of “free.”

Breakfast is a particularly high-priced meal in most hotels and WiFi can also be pricey at $15.00 to $20.00 per day in some locations.

Some hotel chains offer free breakfast and free WiFi, sometimes just for those who are members of their rewards programs, so be sure to do your homework. Checked bag fees can mount up too so take the time to look for airlines that offer free checked bags.

Saving on breakfast, WiFi access and baggage costs can save you hundreds on a single business trip.

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Bezos & Drucker The disciple of the Guru

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he purpose of a business is to create a customer, and the purpose of the leader is to grow the value of the customer,” proclaimed Peter Drucker, the guru of modern management, as the foundation of his insightful years of management advice.

Additionally, he said that all business is about “innovation and marketing.”

Well Jeff Bezos has become the epitome of Drucker’s philosophy. Practicing customer focus and innovation he is implementing what the guru preached. His commitment to consistent, clear and simple guiding principles has created a company with a market value of more than $700 billion.

And it has made him into the richest person in history.

His unwavering concentration on the future and dedication to his belief in studying data in the face of unrelenting criticism has proven to be a winning formula for Amazon.

When he was 10 years old he calculated that his grandmother, a smoker, had already shaved off nine years of her life through a per-puff equation he developed.

In 2000 he secretly launched his most personally meaningful endeavor: Blue Origin, a privately funded aerospace manufacturer and space flight service company founded two years before Elon Musk started SpaceX. Obviously, this was inspired by Jeff watching Neil Armstrong walk on the moon when he was five years old with his grandfather.

He now says, “You don’t choose your passions, your passions choose you.”

Space has become his real passion while he continues to practice his other passion of customer centricity in every new innovation he develops under the Amazon umbrella.

Bezos, with a prescient notion of the future, continues to delight consumers. His philosophy of starting with the customer and working backward into each new market he takes an interest in to discover a faster, better and cheaper way to deliver superior service has been repeated in every business he has become involved with.

Bezos is also the icon of efficiency and he expects his employees to exhibit the same tendencies. Employees have claimed that

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they were expected to work 60 to 80 hour work weeks—and answer their phone and email over weekends and while on vacation.

Bezos walks the talk consistently. He encourages customers to email jeff@amazon. com if they have a complaint. He lives by his set of rules: customer first, innovation always and long-term over short-term.

He hired some of the smartest minds in engineering to experiment in artificial intelligence before it became mainstream.

That’s how Alexa was born. The AI assistant of the Amazon Echo is now present in more than 40 percent of U.S. homes.

He has proven that his unique formula for success and belief that there is always a way to deliver better customer service has sustained his forays into related and distinctly unrelated markets including cloud storage, media, healthcare, space exploration and beyond. With 64 million Amazon Prime users (and growing) each new venture Bezos gets involved with gives them “a click away” access to better ways to improve their lives.

He has created a reality that we never thought possible and now cannot imagine living without. In the process Bezos has made Amazon into an economy unto itself providing jobs for 542,000 people worldwide and growing.

Bezos is not alone in his creativity.

He challenges his employees to constantly think of ways to improve customer service. Amazon is the epitome of the entrepreneurial concept of faster, better and cheaper. His driven customer centric management style and frugal desire to accomplish more with less has developed

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into what Amazon employees describe as “Jeffisms”—repetitive pronouncements from Bezos reinforcing his principles.

Bezos is a unique entrepreneurial character, both a missionary and a mercenary.

He sacrifices short term profitability for long term dominance, quite contrary in a business world that lives and dies on quarterly results.

To conclude, an 18 year old Jeff Bezos ended his valedictorian speech in what might be described as a self-fulfilling prophecy: “Space is the final frontier. Meet me there.”

Real entrepreneurs can see and feel the future at a very young age. Steve Jobs envisioned devices that people did not know they needed and packaged them in what became to be known as the “epitome of cool” in design. Ralph Lauren had only one word in his high school yearbook: Millionaire.

Robert M. Donnelly is an author, educator and brand builder for businesses and individuals.

His consultancy business is called DoctorBusiness.com.

His corporate life was spent in executive positions with IBM, Pfizer and EXXON and then as the CEO for several U.S. subsidiaries of foreign multinational firms.

Professor Donnelly is on the faculty of Saint Peters University as well as Rushmore University, a global online university. His latest book is Personal Brand Planning for Life, available on Amazon. He also functions as an interim executive. You can contact him at rmdonnelly@aol.com or visit his website at DoctorBusiness.com.

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Meadowlands LIVE Region unveils new logo & branding

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he Meadowlands Liberty Convention & Visitors Bureau (MLCVB) has unveiled its new brand message of ‘Meadowlands Live’, honoring the region’s legacy in live sports and entertainment. This message is also accompanied by a new logo.

The MLCVB was founded in 2004 and is supported by a state grant from the NJ Division of Travel & Tourism. It is the destination marketing organization charged with boosting the tourism and hospitality industry (which they’ve combined to be ‘hospitourism’) and bringing in visitors to the many tourism assets the Meadowlands has to offer.

“The Meadowlands originally put itself on the map with landmark events in sports and music entertainment. The new branding is aimed at paying tribute to and building on this legacy,” says MLCVB Vice President Judith Ross. “We feel that the ‘LIVE’ element fittingly captures the buzz and excite-

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ment happening in the region right now— and for years to come.”

Hospitourism brings jobs, revenue & visitors to the Meadowlands Hospitourism—including our hotels, retail, attractions, meeting spaces, recreation, sports and entertainment facilities—is a revenue-generating, job-creating, community-supporting and reputation-building industry with a longstanding legacy here in the Meadowlands. It is a growing industry statewide increasing about three percent annually, but it is particularly thriving here in the Meadowlands—more than double the state overall.

The Meadowlands Sports & Entertainment Complex Many consider the Meadowlands Sports & Entertainment Complex to be the epicenter of the Meadowlands region—home to

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MetLife Stadium, Meadowlands Racing & Entertainment, Meadowlands Rail Station and the potential for so much more.

The economic impact of the complex is major, supporting over 5,000 full- and parttime jobs and generating approximately $65 million in tax revenue, according to a report from Conventions, Sports & Leisure.

MetLife Stadium is home to the New York Jets and the New York Giants, and also hosted the Super Bowl in 2014. The operations of the Giants and the Jets at the stadium bring tens of thousands of visitors to each game and result in direct and indirect financial benefit to the region.

MetLife Stadium is also host to many large-scale events that advance the economy and reputation of the region locally and internationally, including WWE’s WrestleMania in 2013 (generated over $100 million in economic impact), Copa América Centenario in 2016 and more recently in 2017 it

hosted the Indian Film Academy Awards, considered to be the ‘Oscars of Bollywood.’ The concerts at MetLife Stadium also bring in revenue and people. Artists performing at MetLife have included Bruce Springsteen, Beyoncé, Eminem, AC/DC, U2 Rihanna and more. The concerts can draw as many as 100,000 people and generate a gross revenue of over $10 million in ticket sales alone.

Area attractions There are plenty of major sites, attractions, activities and events that bring people to the region, including Liberty State Park, State of Liberty, Liberty Science Center, BergenPAC, RPM Raceway, Medieval Times, Hornblower Cruises, Spirit Cruises, Durkan Fencing Academy, Hackensack Riverkeeper, Field Station: Dinosaurs, Meadowlands pontoon/canoe tours, nature walks, heritage sites and over 30 parks in the area.

Thanks to these attractions, millions of visitors come to the Meadowlands region each year and each of those visitors will come in contact with dozens of businesses along the way, both directly and indirectly. Any visitor who comes to tour a local point of interest or attend a local event may also stay in a hotel, eat at a restaurant, shop at a store or take advantage of a local service, such as a car rental or dry cleaner.

Connecting businesses & customers The Meadowlands Liberty Convention & Visitors Bureau (www.meadowlandsLIVE.com) is one resource that directs visitors to the businesses nearby the event they are attending or the site they are seeing that will fulfill their entertainment, shopping, social, food and hospitality needs. The Bureau organizes their website based on exactly what visitors want to do when they come to the Meadowlands: Stay, Play, Shop, Meet and Eat. This website also caters to what businesses want when visitors come here. They help visitors learn about the businesses, know how to get to them and to connect with them, whether it be through a room booking, a ticket purchase, a dinner reservation or a simple shopping trip. The MLCVB connects area tourism-related businesses with their potential customers.

Tourists and vacationers—families, group of friends, school field trips, etc.—aren’t the only potential visitors to the Meadowlands area. Conference and convention-goers, business groups and other large parties who choose to host their events or activities in the Meadowlands also comprise plenty of potential consumers and valuable sources of revenue for the region. The revenue brought to businesses in the area as visitors become patrons and customers is an important part of what drives the Meadowlands economy forward.

Tourism has an effect on everyone in the Meadowlands: the government, businesses and residents alike.

Therefore, the tourism and hospitality industry is certainly one to keep an eye on for anyone living in, working in, conducting business in or thinking about doing any of the above in the scenic and dynamic Meadowlands region.

Hospitourism by the numbers* Approximately $745 million is generated by the hospitourism region in the Meadowlands each year, with the number of visitors increasing annually by 8% There are over 50 hotels and over 10,000 hotels rooms in the region The Meadowlands Exposition Center has 61,000 sq. ft. of convention space and can accommodate up to 5,000 people for a larger conference, ceremony or banquet Visitors drawn to the Meadowlands’ venues, attractions, hotels and hospitality businesses spend $456 million, support 10,700 jobs and pay $233 million annually in taxes to support state operations Retail and hospitality combined as one industry is the second largest provider of jobs in the Meadowlands, with over 6,000 organizations and over 55,000 jobs Visitor spending supports $466 million in wages for local workers who live locally, with about $158 million of these wages going right back into the local economy supporting real estate, scientific/technical services and healthcare industries.

Job gains in the tourism industry average about 5%, outpacing the national average of approximately 2%. *data comes from Regional Impact of Tourism Report by Rockport Analytics, ZoomProspector, The United States Department of Labor, Meadowlands Chamber, Meadowlands Liberty Convention & Visitors Bureau

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CONTINUING EDUCATION & BUSINESS TRAINING

Ramapo College Recognized As College of Distinction ‘Stands out in the way it strives to help its students to learn, grow and succeed’

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amapo College again has been recognized as a 20182019 College of Distinction in the organization’s recent report.

Colleges of Distinction is a college guide that assesses state colleges and universities in several categories, including student engagement, faculty competencies, vibrant campus and community activities and successful outcomes. Other criteria for recognition include a wider course selection, innovative curricula, individualized attention in the classroom and affordability.

According to the report, Ramapo College has proven itself to be at the forefront of American higher education with a modern, student-centered approach to teaching and learning. With a unique learning environment, its programming engages students with character building first-year seminars, community-based and service learning programs, alternative Spring Breaks, diversity and global learning and interdisciplinary programs, study abroad programs, undergraduate research and internships, among others.

“We are pleased to again be recognized as a College of Distinction,” said Christopher Romano, Vice President for Enrollment Management and Student Affairs. “This ranking confirms what we know is special about Ramapo College; that we have outstanding faculty who teach and mentor our students in an environment where genuine interaction occurs. Our students are names, not numbers, and our new student experience and student success efforts are geared to deliver on that promise.”

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Colleges of Distinction’s selection process consists of a review of each institution’s freshman experience and retention efforts alongside its general education programs, alumni success, strategic plan, student satisfaction, and more. Schools are accepted on the basis that they adhere to the Four Distinctions: Engaged Students, Great Teaching, Vibrant Community, and Successful Outcomes.

“Colleges of Distinction is far more than a ranking list of colleges and universities,” said Tyson Schritter, Chief Operating Officer for Colleges of Distinction. “We seek out the schools that are wholly focused on the student experience, constantly working to produce graduates who are prepared for a rapidly changing global society. Now recognized as a College of Distinction, Ramapo College stands out in the way it strives to help its students to learn, grow and succeed.”

About Colleges of Distinction Since 2000, the Colleges of Distinction website and guidebook have honored schools throughout the U.S. for their excellence in undergraduate-focused higher education. The cohort of schools in the Colleges of Distinction consortium distinguish themselves through their focus on the undergraduate experience. The website and annual guidebooks provide dynamic college profiles, customized tools, and resources for students, parents, and high school counselors. For more information, visit CollegesofDistinction.com.

FINANCIAL FUTURES

Protecting Retirement Assets

Long term care planning can make your nest egg go further

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ou’ve worked hard, saved and built a nice nest egg for your retirement. You were careful with your investments and didn’t invest in anything too risky. You think you’re home free and can enjoy a comfortable retirement. But there’s one risk out there that still must be attended to or it can destroy all your work. It could amount to half a million or more in expenses.

What is it? It is the cost of long term care.

Medicare won’t cover it. Nor, will your Medicare Supplement or Medicare Advantage plan. The only way this bill is paid from savings (your retirement plan!), depending on family to be your caregivers, Medicaid (when your savings are gone) or by transferring the risk to a long term care insurance plan.

Genworth found in a survey of 1,200 people that not having enough money to pay for healthcare or long term care is the greatest fear older adults have about aging. Despite these overwhelming apprehensions only 20 percent of Americans have taken any steps towards figuring out how to finance or actually financing long-term care costs, according to Forbes.

Part of the problem is that Americans are uneducated about long term care. Unless a family member or close friend’s family member needed this care, most people are unaware of the type of care involved or of how costly this care can be. If they knew, I believe they would take steps to make sure this risk is provided for in their retirement years.

In addition, many people are in denial about their need for care. Yet, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, there is a 70 percent chance of someone over age 65 of needing long term care. As a result, many people are rudely surprised when a health event happens that leads to the need for custodial care. They discover their health insurance won’t cover this type of care and the cost of a home health aid is $25/hour.

Or that an assisted living facility is $6,700/month or more and a nursing home is between $10,000 and $11,000 per month, according to Genworth Financial.

Before you let this happen to yourself or your employees, let’s look at some proactive things you can do. Understanding the costs is a good first step, followed by a conversation with a financial professional about potential funding options that will protect assets against long-term care costs. A long term care specialist can discuss the likelihood of needing care, the cost of care today and when you will need care in the future, options for paying for this care and types of long term care policies. They can also help design a plan to fit your budget.

Another good idea is to email information to your employees or invite a long term care specialist in for a short seminar.

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both and is increasingly a key part of the benefit package. Endorsed by the employer, employees are eager to learn more and attend educational sessions, reported by A.M. Best Company.

The Meadowlands Chamber now has a program where employers can refer employees involved in caregiving to get valuable information and resources. Please contact Patti Goldfarb at (201) 255-6239 for details and to see if you company is eligible for worksite long term care discounts.

The bottom line here is that with both high risk and devastating consequences everybody ought to carefully consider their options. Don’t let your retirement be ruined because you didn’t want to know about the possibility of needing long term care or by not knowing what to do about it.

Patti Goldfarb has been a Certified Senior Advisor since 1999. She has written and spoken about long term care issues for many years. She may be contacted at pgoldfarb@ebagroup.net or (201) 255-6239.

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The Rest Is Not History Scarinci Hollenbeck continues to innovate & drive development in the Meadowlands

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mong top law firms in the New Jersey Meadowlands region, Scarinci Hollenbeck maintains a unique prominence. Its stellar reputation has everything to do with the firm’s well-established track record for identifying business voids, seizing opportunities and taking calculated risks to fill marketplace needs—attributes deeply embedded in the firm’s 30 year history but especially notable in the firm’s current growth strategy.

The firm was born in the Meadowlands in 1988 during a period of great economic change and uncertainty. Founders & Managing Partners Donald Scarinci and Kenneth J. Hollenbeck recognized tremendous potential for regional redevelopment in the Meadowlands, despite a common belief at the time that the area’s unique physical and regulatory environment would thwart any attempts at growth.

In fact, the firm saw in this challenge a huge untapped opportunity, knowing that prospective developers would require specific local knowledge and legal expertise in navigating the Meadowlands environment. So the Scarinci Hollenbeck story began.

The rest is not history Some might say the rest is history, with the firm playing a critical role in structuring, negotiating and managing many of the major development and redevelopment transactions that have produced the vibrant Meadowlands region we know today.

This is all very true. But the firm is just as savvy today in identifying both its clients’ most pressing business needs and untapped opportunities in the commercial marketplace and this proficiency is driving the firm’s continued innovation and growth—both for the Meadowlands region as well as for Scarinci Hollenbeck, as the firm celebrates its 30th anniversary.

Prioritizing the needs of clients One of the current, rampant voids, according to Scarinci, is the disconnect between larger law firms and the needs and successes of their clients. Simply put, Scarinci says, mega firms continue to pump up their rates while being tone deaf to the more modest revenue growth or profitability of their clients’ revenues. This is not a model for long-term success.

“For this reason, continued growth of niche practice areas previously reserved for the National 250 law firms is a priority for Scarinci Hollenbeck. Each year, National 250 law firms proudly announce 8% to 15% increases in legal fees while the growth of their clients’ businesses remains flat to negative,” Scarinci says. “Similarly, National 250 firms herald the increasing salaries they pay for first year associates, which now exceed $190,000/year at some firms, and this has added to the disconnect between Big Law and the clients they service.”

Scarinci Hollenbeck has been acutely aware of this trend, knowing that there are prospective clients out there looking for effective alternatives that can be attentive to client budgets, customize

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service offerings and deliver strong results.

Customizing a full-service platform Scarinci Hollenbeck tailors the deployment of its resources to each client in a case-by-case manner that best suits the unique and varying needs of its client. The firm is able to do this because they have strategically staffed the niche practice areas most often required by business entities and the people who own and control them.

Additionally, the firm’s 70+ attorneys actively collaborate among practice groups and rely heavily on technology and the efficiencies it provides. The result is a full-service platform which allows the firm to handle the most complex and challenging projects that clients bring to the table. This is why Scarinci Hollenbeck— now with offices in New Jersey, New York, Washington D.C., and California—is a regional alternative to a National 250 law firm.

“The need for businesses to reduce costs, coupled with the blatant disregard by the National 250 firms to the needs of these businesses, have created opportunities for law firms in the 80 to 120 attorney size category,” says Scarinci. “Regional law firms of this size that can deliver quality legal work at a better price than National 250 firms have great opportunities in this market. Scarinci Hollenbeck has positioned itself to take advantage of these opportunities.”

Servicing an economy in motion As the economy of New Jersey has evolved, Scarinci Hollen-

beck has progressed to accommodate the changes. This has been accomplished by strategic growth in key practice areas that correspond to certain industries.

For instance, an increasing number of technology companies are making their way into the Meadowlands region, and with them come a number of legal issues that tend to arise with developing technology.

Acknowledging this, the firm has developed one of the region’s most highly-regarded Intellectual Property (“IP”) legal practice groups. They handle the full spectrum of IP matters, including trademarks, copyrights, patents, trade secrets and internet domain disputes. By ensuring that a client’s valuable IP is protected, the firm is able to develop lasting relationships with companies.

Furthermore, with the Meadowlands’ legacy as a sports and entertainment destination—an industry now extending beyond just the Meadowlands Sports & Entertainment Complex—Scarinci Hollenbeck has a growing Entertainment, Media and Sports Law Group. Its lawyers are well-versed in the unique issues and challenges facing those in the media industries, whether print, literary, music, television, motion picture, broadcast and cable television, radio or advertisement/ branding. Other areas of concentration include, but are not limited to, fine art and digital technologies.

As we have mentioned, seizing opportunities has long been a hallmark of Scarinci Hollenbeck’s growth strategy. So when medical cannabis was legalized in New Jersey—and as the recreational cannabis industry is becoming more a probability than a possibility—Scarinci Hollenbeck has become one of the first law firms in the state to establish a Cannabis Law practice group.

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Handbook for success: literally Another key area for growth has been in the firm’s Labor & Employment practice group, especially with recent laws passed regarding employee handbooks, paid sick leave, discrimination and job applications.

Many businesses may not realize that not updating handbooks and HR materials to incorporate legally compliant policies will leave them open to liabilities and legal turmoil.

“Handbooks are frequently given a half-hearted start only to be left in the dust of neglect by the many changes in the law. In some cases, having a handbook that incorrectly states the law is worse than no handbook at all,” said Gary S. Young, Partner & Chair of Scarinci Hollenbeck’s Employee Benefits & ERISA practice group. “These recent law changes only underscore the need for review and revision of the handbooks followed by regular meetings with employees to teach and discuss the covered subjects.”

Still developing & redeveloping Not surprisingly, transactions in real estate development and redevelopment still account for the majority of the firm’s portfolio. Some key New Jersey projects that the firm has recently handled include: • the Koppers Coke site in Kearny: under redevelopment to host 2 million sq. ft. of port support warehouses.

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• the former Fairmount Chemical site: redeveloped with a 750,000 warehouse.

• the former Sherwin Williams paint factory in Newark: redeveloped with a 350,000 sq. ft. warehouse.

• the former Pitt CONSOL (DuPont) site in Newark: redeveloped with an 800,000 sq. ft. warehouse and port support facility.

• Phase 3 of Pier Village: under construction in Long Branch.

• the initial site plan approvals for the redevelopment and repurposing of the Monmouth Mall.

• the Sears Site in Watchung: under redevelopment with Seritage into shops, restaurants and a 10 screen Cinemax movie theatre.

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“In essence, our firm has been involved in the management, redevelopment and/or remediation of approximately 4 million sq. ft. of port-related warehouses,” says Theodore A. Schwartz, Partner in Scarinci Hollenbeck’s Environmental & Land Use group.

Anticipating challenges & mitigating roadblocks The laws affecting construction, development and land use continue to evolve and with those changes arise challenges for anyone looking to engage in developing real estate.

“The most pressing challenge facing businesses is getting through the multi-agency permitting and approval process for any type of residential, commercial or industrial development on a reasonably timely basis and without threat of litigation from objector groups,” says Patrick J. McNamara, Partner in Scarinci Hollenbeck’s Environmental & Land Use group.

Thanks to 30 years of experience in the Meadowlands, the Scarinci Hollenbeck name stands as an authority on navigating the legal and intricacies of real estate acquisition, development, entitlement and disposition, which can be numerous and demanding in the Meadowlands and around the state.

“Businesses face regulatory hurdles at the local and state level. Due to the lack of so called ‘clean sites’ in the North Jersey economic region, it is very costly to develop real estate from an environmental remediation perspective. With the myriad number of regulatory hurdles, there is a shortfall in associated government responses,” explains Schwartz.

Nevertheless, the firm is ready to take on these challenges according to Hollenbeck: “Collectively, our realty asset and

environmental land use teams can handle—or have handled—all the intricacies of the redevelopment process. Our clients benefit from that breadth of experience, which spans the entire spectrum of industrial, infrastructure, commercial and multifamily uses. Our lawyers are able to anticipate challenges in the development process and resolve them before they become roadblocks. Whether we are assisting a client with a project in the Meadowlands, in the inner cities, and on the Gold Coast, there is virtually no legal issue that might arise that one or more of our attorneys has not had experience resolving in the past.”

he has become one of New Jersey’s most prominent environmental law attorneys— with many achievements to his name.

From 1965 to 1970, he was a Deputy Attorney General for the State of New Jersey, where he acted as Chief of the Attorney General’s Task Force on Pollution. His responsibilities centered on the enforcement of the state’s pollution control laws through administrative and civil proceedings. His creative approach to environmental enforcement earned him a national reputation.

Schwartz spearheaded the creation of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and had a hand in the development of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.

He also authored numerous environmental laws and regulations, including the New Jersey Air Pollution Control Act, which became a national model for environmental regulatory programs in all areas of the environment.

On the national level, Schwartz was a legal advisor to numerous state and federal agencies for environmental regulatory

The Meadowlands Chamber to Honor Theodore A. Schwartz Of note, the Meadowlands Chamber has announced that it will honor Schwartz at its Annual Legacy Awards Reception on October 11.

Schwartz is a pioneer in the field of Environmental Law and has made his mark on the Meadowlands story. His legal career spans over 50 years and during that time

matters. In recognition of his environmental credentials, President Carter appointed him as a Commissioner to the National Alcohol Fuels Commission, where his role was to analyze the development of alternative fuel sources.

More information about the Meadowlands Chamber’s Annual Legacy Awards Reception can be found at www.meadowlands.org Looking to the Future Scarinci Hollenbeck has evolved and changed in significant ways over its lifetime, expanding its practice areas, adaptively shifting its industry focus and broadening its geographic coverage. But there is also so much that has remained the same, with the firm still looking for opportunities in every challenge and filling voids in the marketplace. The firm continues to make its mark on the Meadowlands and beyond, offering their proven expertise and experience to businesses that are developing and redeveloping the area.

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LESSONS IN LEADERSHIP

Strategic Planning 101 What strategy means & what it doesn’t mean

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any organizations say all the right things about strategic planning: “We just had a twoday strategic planning retreat” or “We need to do our strategic plan.”

Yet, talking the talk about strategic planning is not the same as walking the walk. Others have a decidedly negative view of strategic planning: “We don’t have time to do a strategic plan. Plus, things are constantly changing, so what’s the point of having a plan we are never going to use?”

Much of the confusion and negativity surrounding strategic planning is because some people just don’t understand what it should and could be. Some confuse the strategic planning document with the process itself. Others are obsessed with the process and never put any of it in to action.

The reality is that thinking and acting strategically is something any professional or organization must do. If not, decisions are made based on nothing more than whim or instinct without any connection to the “bigger picture.”

With this in mind, consider what being strategic means and what is doesn’t mean.

Being strategic means: • Intentionally setting goals and having those goals based on reality.

Without such goals, how can any organization measure its effectiveness or stay on course?

• Being aware of the organization’s resources. The best leaders are fully aware of their organization’s resources—both financial and human—and dedicates those resources in a rational fashion that moves in a direction of accomplishing the above-mentioned goals.

• Deciding what’s really important and what’s not. With limited resourc-

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es and limited time, it is all about prioritizing. An organization that says “everything is important” is bound to fail and burn out its people.

• Putting the difficult questions and issues on the table. Don’t duck them.

It’s about taking a sobering look at the external environment and knowing that you have no control over it.

• Creating an opportunity for individuals to “buy in” to something bigger than themselves. It’s about gaining a degree of ownership of a game plan that needs everyone’s participation in order to work.

Being strategic is NOT… • Being rigid or inflexible because of some strategic planning document.

That document is not intended to tie your hands behind your back but rather serve as a blueprint for making important decisions.

• About trying to predict the future.

Organizations that do that are wasting valuable time. Being strategic means making decisions based on the data available to you at a given time.

• An excuse for not leading and managing in a dynamic and human fashion because you have gone through a rational, strategic process. Some decisions need to be made on the spot, particularly in an emergency.

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• Always logical and orderly. In fact, if done the wrong way, strategic planning can get very messy. It is described by some as more like a “ride on a roller coaster” than a “comfortable trip on a commuter train.” Either way, the key is to stay on the track.

Finally, strategic planning is not about coming up with some convoluted jargon-laden mission statement that people take forever to develop. Have you ever noticed that many of these mission statements end up framed and posted in the workplace, but are ignored on a regular basis?

If you are developing a mission statement to make yourself or your organization look good, then you are not truly committed to thinking and acting strategically.

Write to me at SteveAdubato@gmail. com to let me know how your organization deals (or doesn’t deal) with strategic planning.

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Cybersecurity University Course outline for securing your business

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ll too often, organizations do not recognize the importance of a strong cybersecurity posture. Every day, businesses are being compromised in a very real way yet they are still focusing on the fundamentals when it’s clearly time to move beyond the basics. The threat is real, the enemy is active and so our defense must be stronger than the threat.

Welcome to Cybersecurity University. The following “course outline” is a broad overview of the levels of Cybersecurity Management, taking you from the simple but necessary 101 basics through the advanced 401 strategies.

Cybersecurity 101: Fundamentals In any university level-101 course, the focus is typically on the terminology and fundamentals of the topic. One would not expect to achieve a high level of expertise after only completing level 101.

Yet in business, this is often the extent of our knowledge base. How do we wage a war with our level-101 knowledge while the attackers are operating at a level 201 or 301?

Cybersecurity 101 focuses on the minimum security an organization must have as a starting point, to be sure that it is not “giving away the store” without any protection at all. In level 101, your

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organization must have the following elements (using a home analogy to illustrate the importance of each component): • Firewall: The firewall, if configured properly, acts as a fence around your property. It is meant to communicate that what is behind it belongs to you. Using an incorrectly configured firewall is like having an open gate or no fence at all.

• Passwords: Passwords represent the doors of your house.

With weak passwords, the doors are closed but not necessarily locked. Strong passwords put locks on the doors but locks can be picked or broken.

• Anti-virus Software: Antivirus software is similar to a burglar alarm system. Some homes have one and some homes do not.

For full coverage, every entry point must be kept secure, the system must be set to notify of an unlawful entry and it must be updated with the latest technology.

Cybersecurity 201: Identify & Protect In Cybersecurity 201, we move beyond the basics and learn that, in

order to improve our cybersecurity posture, we must first identify what is important to the business, the level of its importance and how to protect what is important. This includes the following areas (for those familiar with ITIL®, you will see many similarities as we move forward): • Asset Management: Assets are the data, personnel, devices, systems and facilities that enable your organization to operate and meet its business objectives. In order to protect your assets, they must be identified and managed; their relative importance must be classified.

• Business Environment: The organization’s mission, objectives and stakeholders, as well as personnel roles and responsibilities, must all be identified, understood and prioritized.

• Governance: The policies, procedures and processes to manage and monitor the organization’s regulatory, legal, and operational requirements must be defined, documented and communicated.

• Risk Assessment & Risk Management: The organization must analyze and understand the risk of a cyberattack and how it would affect its data, customer base, mission, reputation, assets and resources. Once this understanding is reached, the level of importance can be adequately applied to organizational and budgetary priorities.

• Access Control: Access control limits access to assets and data to authorized users or processes. It goes beyond simple user names and passwords and moves into multi-factor authentication, where a user is required to provide more information or have a security device that must be used in combination with their user name and password.

• Awareness & Training: The majority of security incidents happen from within an organization. End users must be educated on defense methods against hacking techniques (such as phishing, clickjacking and others) and on the importance of strong passwords and how to protect them.

• Data Security: Data Security is the protection and management of the organization’s data, confidentiality, integrity and availability of sensitive information. This would also include the processes and procedures, roles and responsibilities, and maintenance of company, client and partner information.

• Maintenance: Maintenance and repairs of information system components must be conducted regularly in alignment with consistent policies and procedures to limit exposure due to system and/or component failure.

• Protective Technology: Protective Technology security solutions must be managed to ensure security and resilience of systems and assets consistent with defined policies, procedures and agreements.

Cybersecurity 301: Detect In Cybersecurity 301, we move from a reactive, defensive posture to a proactive, offensive posture. At this level, our goal is to install management applications that will continuously monitor for anomalies and automatically remediate when an incident occurs. This includes the following areas: • Anomalies & Events: Ensure that events outside the norm are detected in a timely manner and that the impact of the anomaly can be quickly assessed.

• Continuous Monitoring: Put tools in place that are continuously monitoring information systems and assets at specified intervals to detect potential security violation events.

• Detection Process: Define processes and procedures that are maintained and tested to ensure and provide critical notification capability when a security violation event occurs.

Cybersecurity 401: Respond & Recover While most intruders specialize in maneuvering around level 101 and level 201 areas, most have not mastered the level 301 and 401 areas. In Cybersecurity 401, we really start to take and secure ground by protecting against, responding to, and recovering from a cyberattack. Our focus here includes the following areas: • Response Plan: The response plan is a formal set of processes and procedures to ensure the timely response to cybersecurity events. This eliminates the confusion and panic that wastes valuable time and allows an attack to flow through the information systems and cause more chaos.

• Communications: Communications are response activities coordinated with internal and external stakeholders to be sure everyone is informed and assisting appropriately. This would also include support from law enforcement and the cybersecurity legal team.

• Analysis & Mitigation: Analysis and mitigation activities are performed to analyze the impact of the event, so the appropriate response activities can be initiated, thereby preventing the expansion of the event.

• Improvements: Improvements are the organizational responses, including Problem and Change Management, to identify root causes and institute changes, so that security violation events can be avoided in the future.

• Recovery Planning: Recovery planning includes the recovery processes and procedures that must be maintained, tested and improved upon so that when a recovery is needed, it is available for rapid restoration of service. The time to test your recovery process is not while attempting an actual recovery in the heat of battle.

Graduation from Cybersecurity University It should now be apparent that a corporate cybersecurity posture is far more than a firewall, passwords and antivirus software. It involves thorough planning, a strong design, defined processes and procedures, automation and notification by way of software tools. It also requires executive commitment to the organization to recognize the need for a mature cybersecurity posture.

Cybersecurity University represents the NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology) Cybersecurity Framework.

This framework is based on industry best practices and focuses on managing and reducing cyber risk. For more information, visit the NIST website at nist.gov/topics/cybersecurity or contact Mike@Solutions3LLC.com.

Thank you for your interest in Cybersecurity University. We hope to see you in classes along the way.

Mike Battistella is the President of Solutions3 LLC, an IT Management Company focusing on cyber security management, network & systems management, IT service management, critical notification management and technical & soft skill training.

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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT

Trade Delegation from Chongqing

Meadowlands Chamber hosts executives from rapidly developing Chinese city to discuss potential partnerships

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he Meadowlands Chamber hosted a trade delegation from Chongqing, China in August at the Chamber’s headquarters in Rutherford.

Chongqing–a city in southwest China with over 30 million people–is rapidly developing and urbanizing and includes several special economic/technological development zones.

The trade delegation’s executives who visited the Meadowlands represented a variety of industries including glass, architecture, transportation and metal work.

This initial discussion builds a foundation for understanding each other’s economies and business climates, identifying potential partnership opportunities to connect businesses in the Meadowlands with businesses in Chongqing. The two groups will now continue the discussion on future reciprocal investments here in the Meadowlands and in Chongqing.

If any businesses are interested in learning more about the partnership between Chongqing and the Meadowlands or in other international business opportunities with the Chamber, they can contact Joe Garavente at JGaravente@meadowlands. org or (201) 939-0707.

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Chongqing is a rapidly urbanizing city of over 30 million people in southwest China.

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700 Plaza Drive, Secaucus, NJ Art Gallery 201-902-0889 Bank Of America 201-319-0031 Chase Bank (450 Plaza Drive) 201-348-9204 Dunkin Donuts/Subway 201-617-9200 GNC 201-348-9549 Haircutter In The Meadow 201-863-3900 Harmon Meadow Jewelry Exchange 201-864-9666 Harmony Early Learning Center 201-348-2905 Pier 1 Imports 201-319-1110 Plaza Candy News & Lottery 201-520-0043 Raymour & Flanigan 201-809-1353 Sam’s Club (300 Park Place) 201-974-0702 Travel Meadows 201-348-3400 U.S. Post Office 201-866-6314 Walmart (400 Park Place) 201-325-9280

HARMON MEADOW HOTELS 201-866-1665 201-223-9760 201-866-0300 201-867-4455 201-392-2670 201-319-1980

(210 Meadowland Pkwy) 201-864-1450 Rent the Runway Warehouse Store (100 Metro Way) 800-509-0842 Children’s Place 201-223-4849 (210 Meadowland Pkwy) Tommy Hilfiger 201-223-0601 (25 Enterprise Ave) Worth NY (210 Meadowland Pkwy) 201-605-2010 0418

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Secaucus, NJ Aloft Hotel Courtyard By Marriott

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(455 Harmon Meadow Blvd)

Embassy Suites

(455 Plaza Drive)

Extended Stay America (1 Plaza Drive)

Meadowlands River Inn

(250 Harmon Meadow Blvd.)

Holiday Inn

(300 Plaza Drive)

Hyatt Place

(575 Park Plaza Drive)

La Quinta Inn and Suites (350 Lighting Way)

Residence Inn (800 Plaza Dr)

201-617-8888

LINCOLN HARBOR

1200 Harbor Boulevard, Weehawken, NJ Info & Security Desk Best Wishes Cards & Gifts Blue Ale House Boogie Woogie Bagel Boys Bright Horizons Family Solutions CarePlus/CVS Pharmacy Chart House Estuary Living Houlihan’s Jack Austin’s Eat & Drink Lincoln Harbor Shoe Repair Lincoln Harbor Yacht Club NY Waterway Ruth’s Chris Steak House Sheraton Lincoln Harbor Hotel Harbor Cleaners

201-348-3703 201-713-9762 Coming Soon 201-863-4666 201-351-5350 201-330-8147 201-348-6628 201-355-0455 201-863-4000 201-348-4444 609-505-1640 201-319-5100 800-53-Ferry 201-863-5100 201-617-5600 201-453-3300

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201-422-9480 201-863-8700 201-223-9901

harmonmeadow.com 201-348-1200

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VIE WS O F N YC W E E H AW K E N

LEASING UNITS 201-355-0455

LEASING UNITS SECAUCUS 201-271-1700

MEADOWLANDS RESTAURANTS & DINING 3rd Wave Cafe & Crepes, The Lyndhurst (201) 528-8163 Al Di La East Rutherford (201) 939-1128

Biggies Clam Bar Carlstadt (201) 933-4242

BurgerFi Secaucus (551) 257-7979

Chevys Clifton 973-777-6277

Il Villaggio Carlstadt (201) 935-7733

Bistro at Courtyard Secaucus Meadowlands Secaucus (201) 617-8888

Cafe Four Fifty Five Secaucus (201) 864-7300

Chili’s Restaurant Secaucus (201) 319-0804

Cafe Matisse Rutherford (201) 935-2995

Chipotle Mexican Grill Secaucus (201) 223-0562

La Reggia Restaurant & Banquets & Lounge Secaucus (201) 422-0200

Annabella’s Fine Foods, Inc. Bistro Six-Five-Zero Hasbrouck Heights East Rutherford (201) 804-0303 (201) 288-6100 Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza Clifton (973) 471-2625

Bonefish Grill Secaucus (201) 864-3004

Bagels Plus & Deli Secaucus (201) 330-0744

Boogie Woogie Bagel Boys Weehawken (201) 863-4666

Bareli’s Restaurant, LLC Secaucus (201) 865-2766 Bazzarelli Restaurant & Pizzeria Moonachie (201) 641-4010

Caffe Capri East Rutherford (201) 460-1039 Carrabba’s Italian Grill Secaucus (201) 330-8497

Buffalo Wild Wings Secaucus (201) 348-0824

Chart House Restaurant Weehawken (201) 348-6628

Burger King Secaucus (201) 325-0498

Cheeseburger In Paradise Secaucus (201) 392-0500

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is this...

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Chit Chat Diner Hackensack (201) 820-4033

Little Italy Café Secaucus (201) 348-1400

Colonial Diner Lyndhurst (201) 935-3192

Luigi Meats Wood-Ridge (201) 933-0105

Cosi Secaucus (201) 330-1052

Marco Polo Pizza/ Breakfast Grill Weehawken (201) 863-0057

CUPS frozen yogurt that’s hot Secaucus Dunkin Donuts/ Subway Secaucus 201-617-9200 Elia East Rutherford (201) 939-9292 Finch’s Rutherford (201) 231-3141 Gabriel’s Grille & Bar Hasbrouck Heights (201) 288-9600 Good Chinese Kitchen North Bergen (201) 295-0806 Houlihan’s Hasbrouck Heights (201) 393-9330 Houlihan’s Secaucus (201) 330-8856 Houlihan’s Weehawken (201) 863-4000

PIER D-T/LINCOLN HARBOR • WEEHAWKEN • 201-348-6628

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Legal Sea Foods, LLC Paramus (201) 843-8483

Il Cafone Lyndhurst (201) 933-3355

Mamma Vittoria Nutley (973) 662-0242 Martini Grill Wood-Ridge (201) 939-2000 Masina Trattoria Italiana Weehawken (201) 348-4444 Massaman Thai Cuisine Carlstadt (201) 559-1424 McDonalds North Bergen (201) 868-9888 Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament Lyndhurst (201) 933-2220 Michael’s Salumeria Lyndhurst (201) 868-9888 Morton’s The Steakhouse Hackensack (201) 487-3614 Mr. Bruno’s Pizza and Beyond East Rutherford (201) 531-8900

MEADOWLANDS RESTAURANTS & DINING Mr. Bruno’s Pizza and Beyond Lyndhurst (201) 933-1588 Mr. G’s Carlstadt (201) 460-0100 Oceanaire Seafood Room Hackensack (201) 343-8862 Olive Garden Secaucus (201) 867-3543 Outback Steakhouse Secaucus (201) 601-0077 Panera Bread Secaucus (201) 348-2846 Pink at Meadowlands Racing and Entertainment East Rutherford (201) 842-5013

Red Lobster Secaucus (201) 583-1902

Sanducci’s Trattoria River Edge 201-599-0600

Stony Hill Inn Hackensack (201) 342-4085

Thistle Restaurant Lyndhurst (201) 935-0004

Redd’s Restaurant & Bar Carlstadt (201) 933-0015

Sanzari’s New Bridge Inn New Milford (201) 692-7700

Subway Weehawken (201) 865-2500

Tokyo Hibachi & Buffet Secaucus (201) 863-2828

Rutherford Pancake House Rutherford (201) 340-4171

Schuyler Grill & Cafe/ The Dapper Doughnut Lyndhurst (201) 935-0900

Subway Secaucus (201) 325-0300

Urban Plum Gastropub Secaucus (201) 520-0574

Ruth’s Chris Steak House Weehawken (201) 863-5100

Segovia Restaurant Moonachie (201) 641-4266

Sabor Latin Bistro North Bergen (201) 943-6366 Saladworks East Rutherford (201) 939-8886 Sals Good Eats Teterboro (201) 375-4949

Starbucks Coffee East Rutherford (201) 438-0584

Subway North Bergen (201) 869-4469

Varrellman’s Baked Goods Rutherford (201) 939-0462

Suprema Cafe Rutherford (201) 531-1190

Starbucks Coffee Secaucus (201) 223-4924

The Crow’s Nest Restaurant Hackensack (201) 342-5445

Stefanos Mediterranean Grille Secaucus (201) 865-6767

The Original Pita Grill Hoboken (201) 217-9777

Vesta Wood Fired Pizza & Bar East Rutherford (201) 939-6012 Volare’s Restaurant Rutherford (201) 935-6606

MEADOWLANDS TRANSPORTATION AAA Giants Limousine & Car Service (201) 933-3313 Academy Bus, LLC (201) 420-7000 Axis Global Systems, LLC (718) 458-3666 Country Club Services (973) 376-4352 Enterprise Rent-A-Car (908) 497-1234

Lyft Lyft.com New York, Susquehana & Western Railway Corp.

(607) 547-2555 NJ Transit (973) 491-8903 www.njtransit.com NY Waterway (201) 902-8700 State Shuttle (800) 427-3207

Enterprise Rent-A-Car (845) 537-6067

Stout’s Transportation Services (609) 883-8891

EZ Ride (201) 939-4242

Vander Plaat Executive Limo (201) 891-3856

JPods (612) 414-4211 Lincoln Harbor Yacht Club (201) 319-5100

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EVENT PLANNING & CATERING SERVICES Chit Chat Creative Caterers Hackensack (201) 820-4033

Il Villaggio Carlstadt (201) 935-7733

Palisadium Catering & Conference Center Cliffside Park (201) 224-2211

Cliffhanger Productions Inc. Rutherford (201) 460-1489

In Thyme Catered Events River Vale (201) 666-3353

Personal Touch Experience & Catering Hackensack (201) 488-8820

Fabulous Foods Event Design & Catering Moonachie (201) 896-8800

Jimmy’s Artistic Creations East Rutherford (201) 460-1919

Photobooth Planet Ridgefield (917) 780-5556

Fiesta Banquets Wood-Ridge (201) 939-5409

JNL Creative Tours, LLC Waldwick (201) 312-4684

Freeman Kearny (201) 299-7400

Mamma Vittoria Nutley 973) 662-0242

Bayway Catering Elizabeth (908) 527-8584

Graycliff Catering Inc. (The Graycliff) Moonachie (201) 939-9233

Meadowlands Racing and Entertainment East Rutherford (201) 842-5013

Bounce Music & Entertainment Englewood Cliffs (201) 482-8191

Greenwood Lake Air Show West Milford 973-224-9142

Nanina’s In The Park Belleville (973) 751-1230

16W Marketing Rutherford (201) 635-8000 4 Wall New York Moonachie (201) 329-9878 Adam Leffel Productions / Petals Premier Event Design Hackensack (201) 487-1300 Annabella’s Fine Foods, Inc. East Rutherford (201) 804-0303 Any Excuse For A Party (973) 808-8700 Audience Pleasers Garfield 973-773-0953

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Pink at Meadowlands Racing and Entertainment East Rutherford (201) 842-5013 Positive Impact Partners Cranbury (609) 395-1972 Royal Manor Garfield (973) 478-8590 Sal’s Good Eats Teterboro (201) 375-4949

Seasons Catering Washington Township (201) 664-6141 Smooth Sailing Celebrations Oak Ridge (973) 409-4456 Sterling Affair Caterers Carlstadt (201) 372-0734 Sweet Dreams Studio Photo Booth Madison (703) 585-4704 The Excelsior of Saddle Brook Saddle Brook (973) 772-9900 The Terrace at Biagio’s Paramus (201) 652-7900 Unique Event Center Little Ferry (201) 880-5025 United Eventures (201) 694-6583

NOW BOOKING

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678 Cranbury Road East Brunswick, NJ 08816 732-238-4200 info@parkchateau.com

236 Ridgedale Avenue Florham Park, NJ 07932 973-377-7100 info@theparksavoy.com

Dream Weddings in the Park

EXPLORE THE MEADOWLANDS Ecotourism Hackensack Riverkeeper Hackensack (201) 968-0808 NJSEA Meadowlands Environment Center Lyndhurst (201) 460-8300

Bergen County Parks Belmont Hill County Park Garfield

Darlington County Park Mahwah (201) 327-3500 Hackensack River County Park Hackensack (201) 336-7275 Overpeck County Park Leonia (201) 336-7275 Pascack Brook County Park Westwood (201) 336-6000

Borg’s Woods Nature Preserve Hackensack

Ramapo Valley County Reservation Mahwah (201) 327-3500

Dahnert’s Lake County Park Garfield

Riverside County Park Lyndhurst (201) 939-9339

Saddle River County Park Saddle brook (201) 796-0324 Samuel Nelkin County Park East Rutherford (973) 777-0318 Van Saun County Park Paramus (201) 262-3771 Wood Dale County Park Hillsdale (201) 336-7275

Hudson County Parks Mercer Park Bayonne

Stephen R. Gregg Park Bayonne (201) 858-7180

Laurel Hill Park Secaucus (201) 915-1388

Columbus Park Hoboken (201) 915-1388

NJSEA Parks

Liberty State Park Jersey City (201) 915-3403

Richard W. DeKorte Park Lyndhurst (201) 460-1700

Lincoln Park Jersey City (201) 915-1388

Mill Creek Point Park Secaucus (866) 927-6416

Washington Park Jersey City/ Union City (201) 348-5700

Losen Slote Creek Park Little Ferry

West Hudson Park Kearny (201) 217-5482 Braddock Park North Bergen (201) 915-3188

Laurel Hill Park Secaucus 201-915-1386 River Barge Park and Marina Carlstadt

STAY IN THE MEADOWLANDS AVE CLIFTON Clifton 973.859.3200

Fairfield Inn By Marriott East Rutherford (201) 507-5222

Holiday Inn Express Paramus (201) 843-5400

La Quinta Inn & Suites Secaucus (201) 863-8700

Candlewood Suites Hotel Secaucus 201.865.3900

Hampton Inn Carlstadt (201) 935-9000

Courtyard by Marriott Edgewater 201-945-5440

Hilton Garden Inn Secaucus (201) 864-1400

Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Carlstadt (201) 460-9292

Marriott at Newark Liberty International Airport Newark (973) 623-0006

Courtyard by Marriott Lyndhurst (201) 896-6666

Hilton Hasbrouck Heights Hasbrouck Heights (201) 288-6100

Courtyard by Marriott Secaucus (201) 617-8888 Econo Lodge Carlstadt (201) 935-4600 Element Harrison (862) 234-4922 Embassy Suites Secaucus (201) 864-7300

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by Hilton Hasbrouck Heights Hasbrouck Heights (201) 552-5600 Homewood Suites

by Hilton East Rutherford (201) 460-9030 Hyatt Place Secaucus/ Meadowlands Secaucus (201) 422-9480 La Quinta Inn & Suites Clifton/ Rutherford Clifton (973) 778-6500

Red Roof Inn Secaucus (201) 319-1000 Renaissance Meadowlands Hotel Rutherford (201) 231-3100 Residence Inn East Rutherford (201) 939-0020 Residence Inn Saddle River (201) 934-4144 Saddle Brook Marriott Saddle Brook (201) 843-9500

Sheraton Lincoln Harbor Hotel Weehawken (201) 617-5600 Station at Lyndhurst Apartments Lyndhurst (201) 252-4036 Teaneck Marriott at Glenpointe Teaneck (201) 836-0600 The Meadowlands River Inn Secaucus (201) 867-4400 W Hotel Hoboken (201) 253-2420 Westin Hotel Jersey City (201) 626-2900

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“A diamond in the shadow of the Meadowlands, old-style cuisine that never disappoints” Zagat Survey, America’s Top 1000 Italian Restaurants 2008

“Best of Award of Excellence” - Wine Spectator Magazine

Come experience Il Villaggio’s distinguished cuisine in our newly renovated restaurant Since 1979, Il Villaggio has been consistently providing guests with truly memorable dining experiences.

Our menu specializes in classic northern Italian dishes, which include a wide variety of fresh fish & seafood specials that change daily. Complete your dining experience with our wide selection of homemade desserts.

Il Villaggio caters to Bar/Bat Mitzvahs,Weddings, and Private/Corporate Events.

Monday-Friday: 11:30 am -11:00 pm • Saturday: 5:00 pm - 12 Midnight Sunday: Private Events Only 651 Route 17 North, Carlstadt, NJ 07072 Telephone: 201.935.7733 • info@ilvillaggio.com • www.ilvillaggio.com

DESTINATION MEADOWLANDS

Recreation, Sports & Entertainment

Harlem Wizards Secaucus (201) 271-3600

Aviation Hall of Fame & Museum Of NJ Teterboro (201) 288-6344

Hi-Tech Billiard Club & Lounge Weehawken (201) 624-8240

Bergen Performing Arts Center (bergenPAC) Englewood (201) 816-8160

Kerasotes Showplace 14 Secaucus (201) 210-5364

Bowlero Walllington Wallington (973) 773-9100

Liberty Science Center Jersey City (201) 200-1000

Chuck E. Cheese’s North Bergen (201) 861-1799 Durkan Fencing Company South Hackensack 201-880-9585 Field Station Dinosaurs Leonia (855) 999-9010 Fun Ghoul Rutherford (201) 460-1489 GolfTec Englewood (201) 567-0103

North Arlington Bowl-O-Drome North Arlington (201) 998-9621 NY Giants East Rutherford (201) 935-8111 NY Jets Florham Park (516) 560-8100 NY Red Bulls Harrison (201) 583-7000

Meadowlands Racing & Entertainment East Rutherford (201) 460-4166 Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament Lyndhurst (201) 933-2220 MetLife Stadium East Rutherford (201) 559-1562 Nereid Boat Club Rutherford (201) 438-3995

NY Waterway Weehawken (201) 902-8700 RPM Raceway Jersey City (201) 333-7223 Six Flags Great Adventure Jackson (732) 928-2000 Sofive Carlstadt 347-790-5032 Space Farms Zoo & Museum Sussex (973) 875-5800

Statue Cruises Jersey City (201) 432-6321 Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island (212) 344-0996 Water Journey Lyndhurst (973) 994-4577 World Golf Network RiverVale (201) 489-2240

Ecotourism Hackensack Riverkeeper Hackensack (201) 968-0808 NJSEA Meadowlands Environment Center Lyndhurst (201) 460-8300

Health, Fitness & Beauty GNC Live Well Secaucus (201) 348-9549

Haircutter in the Meadow Secaucus (201) 863-3900

Calvin Klein Company Store Secaucus (201) 223-9760

Jenny Craig Secaucus (201) 330-0110

Country Whimsey Rutherford (201) 438-0488

King’s Court Health & Sports Club Lyndhurst (201) 460-0088

Gucci Secaucus (201) 392-2670

LA Fitness Signature Club Secaucus (201) 751-9940 Sally Beauty Supply North Bergen 201-295-0020 SOJO Spa Club Edgewater (201) 313-7200 The DOJO Rutherford (201) 933-3050

Retail & Outlet Shopping Best Buy Secaucus (201) 325-2277

Heights Beer & Wine Emporium Hasbrouck Heights (201) 426-0555 Mason’s Cellar Rutherford (201) 935-1212 Raymour & Flannigan Secaucus (201) 809-1353 Tommy Hilfiger Secaucus (201) 863-5600 Westfield Garden State Plaza Paramus (201) 843-2121

Explore the Real Meadowlands!

Join us for an Eco-Cruise, paddling tour, or a river cleanup on YOUR Hackensack River.

Italian-Made Karts, Speeds up to 45 mph Arrive & Drive Racing 7 Days a Week Adult & Junior Racers (Must be 4’ Tall) Corporate Events, Personal Celebrations Full-Motion Interactive Racing Sim & Arcade Games

reservations 201-968-0808 www.hackensackriverkeeper.org

10% OFF First Race Coupon must be present and cannot be combined. MLCVB1

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Max Fitness Challenge Haircutter in the Meadow

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INDEX OF ADVERTISERS Allstate Agency, www.allstate.com/kmeredith........................................................7 AVE, www.aveliving.com........................................................................................20 Branca Properties Inc., www.brancaproperties.com...............................................21 CBHCare Wellness and Support Center, www.cbhcare.com.................................19 Chart House, www.chart-house.com......................................................................36 Ernst & Young, www.ey.com.....................................................................................9 EZ Ride, www.ezride.org..............................................................Inside Front Cover Forsgate Industrial Partners, www.forsgate.com......................................................1 Frank’s GMC, www.FranksGMC.net........................................................................44 Goya Foods, www.goya.com.....................................................................................2 Hackensack Riverkeeper, www.hackensackriverkeeper.org...................................42 Harmon Meadow Plaza..........................................................................................43 Il Villaggio, www.ilvillaggio.com...........................................................................41 Jewel Electric, www.jewelelectric.com....................................................................32 Kearny Bank, www.KearnyBank.com......................................................................33 Meadowlands Chamber Annual Meeting, www.meadowlands.org......................34 Meadowlands Chamber Guided Tours Travel Program, www.meadowlands.org.....38 Meadowlands Small Business Council, www.meadowlands.org............................33 Nanina’s In The Park & The Park Savoy, www.naninasinthepark.com...................39 Safety NJ, www.safetynj.com...................................................................................7 Overhead Door, www.DockNDoor.com...................................................................33 Paramount Exterminating, www.ParamountExterminating.com..........................44 Professional Insurance Associates, Inc..................................................................45 PSE&G, www.pseg.com..................................................................Inside Back Cover Quest Diagnostics, www.QuestDiagnostics.com...................................................18 RPM Raceway, www.rpmraceway.com....................................................................42 Scarinci & Hollenbeck, www.scarincihollenbeck.com............................................23 Spencer Savings Bank, www.spencersavings.com...................................................5 State of Affairs with Steve Adubato, www.SteveAdubato.org.................................27 SUEZ Water New Jersey Inc., www.mysuezwater.com.............................Back Cover The Harper Harmon Meadow, www.TheHarperApts.com.......................................13 The Table: Metropolitan NJ Dining Guide, www.meadowlandslive.com...............37 TM Rybak, www.tmrassociates.com.......................................................................25 Weiss Realty, www.jweissrealty.com......................................................................14 William Paterson University, www.wpunj.edu......................................................21 For more information on advertising in Meadowlands USA magazine or online advertising at www.meadowlands.org please contact Martha Morley at (201) 493-7996 or email: greerentps@aol.com Call for new items! If your organization has news or announcements to share with our audience, please send to Joe Garavente at JGaravente@meadowlands.org or call (201) 939-0707

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