Advance Realty

Advance Realty Investors is a privately held real estate investment, development, and management firm based in Bridgewater, New Jersey. The company focuses on office, industrial, mixed-use, and multifamily properties in Northern and Central New Jersey, the New York City metro area, the Mid-Atlantic, and select Sunbelt logistics markets. As of December 2025, it is best known in the market for its growing portfolio of logistics, transit-oriented, and urban infill projects that are typically executed with institutional joint venture partners.

The firm was founded in 1979 by Peter Cocoziello. In its early years, Advance was primarily an office and industrial owner and developer in New Jersey and the broader Northeast corridor. Over time it grew into a full-service owner-operator, adding in-house capabilities for acquisitions, development, construction oversight, leasing, and property management. A notable early milestone was the company’s role in creating prominent mixed-use and residential destinations such as the Riverbend District in Harrison, New Jersey, and Fort Lee Town Center near the George Washington Bridge, which helped establish its reputation for repositioning complex infill and waterfront sites.

Over the last five years, Advance Realty Investors has deliberately shifted its emphasis toward logistics, last‑mile industrial, and multifamily within larger mixed-use districts. The firm has been active with new ground-up industrial developments, adding modern warehouse and distribution product in infill submarkets that serve regional and e-commerce users. It has also advanced new multifamily phases within master-planned mixed-use environments, often near transit and major employment centers, and has continued to acquire well-located value-add properties along the Northeast corridor where it can unlock value through redevelopment or repositioning.

As of December 2025, Advance’s holdings and pipeline are concentrated in Northern and Central New Jersey, the New York metro area, and infill pockets of the Mid-Atlantic and high-growth Sunbelt logistics markets. The company typically pursues institutional-quality assets and developments, partnering with large capital providers in programmatic joint ventures. Its work ranges from stabilized core holdings to more opportunistic redevelopments of obsolete industrial, office, and waterfront properties.

For landlords, brokers, and developers, Advance Realty Investors is a familiar counterparty across several deal types. The firm is active in speculative industrial projects, urban infill mixed-use, and rental communities near transit, and it brings a long operating history in New Jersey coupled with current expansion in select national logistics corridors. Its experience with complex master-planned districts, along with its ability to hold assets long term, makes it a potential partner or buyer in situations where entitlement, phasing, and placemaking are central to the business plan. The company remains independently owned, with no public financial reporting, and continues to operate under the Advance Realty, Advance Realty Group, and Advance Realty Investors names in various historical and current materials.