Citigroup's new New Jersey home is the Warren Corporate Center, an 800,000-sf asset located at 283 King George Rd. in this Somerset County community. The sprawling building is owned by the Parsippany, NJ-based SJP Properties, headed by Steven J. Pozycki, and Prudential's Prisa fund, which jointly acquired it from Lucent in the fall of 2001 for an estimated $165 million.
By the numbers, those 1,600 jobs moving from Manhattan come from Citigroup Global Markets, the company's research arm, and Citigroup Technology, which services the company's technology requirements. The location will also be staffed by more than 700 employees already working at various locations in the Garden State. And Citigroup is projecting the hiring of up to 650 new people over the next two years.
Stamford, CT also beckoned for the jobs, but Citigroup opted for the New Jersey location because the State of New Jersey came across with more money. A Citigroup spokesman declined to comment, but state officials say the company will get an estimated $57 million over the next 10 years through the Business Employment Incentive Program.
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