NAI DiLeo-Bram Closes 20,000 SF in Edison Office Leases
NAI DiLeo-Bram completed four office leases totaling 20,000 SF in Edison, NJ, signaling tech sector commitment to Central Jersey office space.
Four office leases totaling 20,000 square feet in Edison signal something the commercial real estate industry has been waiting to see: technology companies in Central Jersey are not just surviving the post-pandemic office shakeout. They are committing to it.
NAI DiLeo-Bram & Co. closed the deals across two office centers in Middlesex County, with Executive Vice President Robert Dinner leading all four transactions. The activity spans Edison Office Plaza on Plainfield Avenue and Metroplex Corporate Center on Metroplex Drive, two campuses that have become anchors for professional services and technology tenants in the Edison submarket.
The most significant new commitment came at 515 Plainfield Ave., where IPower USA Inc., a technology services company building out its regional presence, signed a lease for more than 2,900 square feet. Dinner represented the landlord, Edison Office Plaza LLC, in that deal. The firm also locked in a lease extension with Neotech Solutions Inc. for more than 1,400 square feet at the same property.
The bulk of the square footage, however, came from Metroplex Corporate Center, a three-building, 265,000-square-foot campus where Dinner serves as exclusive leasing agent for ownership group Metroplex Associates. Iris Software Inc. renewed for more than 12,300 square feet at 200 Metroplex Drive. TriGyn Technologies renewed for more than 3,500 square feet at the adjacent 100 Metroplex Drive building. Both renewals represent established tenants doubling down on Edison rather than retreating to remote or hybrid-only arrangements.
“New Jersey’s office sector is showing real resilience; in centralized markets like Edison, the advantages of a superior location are more apparent than ever,” Dinner said. “The successful placement of IPower USA Inc. underscores that companies are actively committing to offices that will help attract and retain talent. Our strategy focuses on positioning these properties as essential business hubs in the current environment.”
What makes Edison work for these companies is not accidental. The submarket sits at a genuine transportation crossroads. Metroplex Corporate Center offers access to Interstate 287, Routes 1 and 27, the New Jersey Turnpike, and the Garden State Parkway. For companies whose employees commute from across Central and North Jersey, that access matters. The campus has also invested in its physical product, with newly renovated common areas and grab-and-go food options on site. Nearby restaurants, a convention center, and hotels round out the appeal for tenants who need to host clients.
Middlesex County has long served as one of New Jersey’s most productive economic zones, home to everything from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 operations. The county’s workforce skews toward the educated and technically skilled, a fact that technology companies weigh heavily when choosing office locations. Attracting software engineers and IT professionals to a commutable, amenity-rich suburban campus is a more persuasive pitch than asking those same workers to sit in a nondescript building with nothing around it.
The leasing activity also reflects a broader pattern playing out across suburban New Jersey markets. The office vacancy problem that dominated real estate conversations for the past several years has not disappeared, but it has sorted itself out unevenly. Properties that can credibly compete on location, amenities, and transit access are finding tenants. Properties that cannot are still struggling. That divergence has pushed brokers and landlords to focus on what makes a specific asset genuinely useful to an employer, rather than simply offering lower rents.
For Middlesex County, the concentration of technology firms in the Edison submarket creates its own pull. When Iris Software, TriGyn Technologies, Neotech Solutions, and IPower USA are all operating within proximity of one another, that cluster becomes a feature. It signals to the next prospective tenant that the market works, that the workforce is there, and that the infrastructure holds up.
Four leases does not rewrite the story of New Jersey’s office market. But 20,000 square feet of signed deals in one submarket, involving technology companies choosing to renew and expand rather than walk away, is exactly the kind of ground-level evidence that Central Jersey’s commercial sector is stabilizing around its strongest assets.
