The construction market in North Jersey is not unlike most in the Tri-State region. Private jobs are hard to come by – and even harder to find – and most firms, large and small, find themselves pitted against steep competition for every small health care, education and transportation project that goes out to bid.
“There’s a fairly significant amount of work on the infrastructure side and a lot that appears to be on the drawing board waiting to come out,” says Patrick Greene, a partner in the River Edge, N.J., law office of Peckar & Abramson. “Some of that is probably a result of stimulus funding. That seems to be the one sector with a decent amount of activity.”