NEWARK, NJ—Real estate development law firm Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi and Jones Lang Lasalle are shopping a proposal for Iberia Ironbound, a 5.2-acre mixed-use, transit-oriented development site located in Newark's vibrant Ironbound neighborhood.

The site, the largest contiguous development parcel to become available in the Ironbound in recent memory, is being offered for development and investment opportunities. One likely tenant in whatever mixed-use project is ultimately built is likely to be another grocery store, the JLL executive involved in the project believes.

"Working off of being close to transportation and Ferry Street, the main entertainment and retail corridor for that area, there's a high likelihood that you'll find an urban footprint grocer," Tom Walsh, executive vice president at JLL, tells GlobeSt.com exclusively. "There are 60,000 people in that neighborhood and no national grocer. You have Whole Foods going in downtown, but it doesn't have the population density that the Ironbound does."

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