Bio

Christopher Tarr concentrates his practice on commercial real estate matters, including land use, leasing and conveyancing. He has obtained zoning approvals for more than 21,000,000 square feet of office, laboratory, retail, industrial and residential uses throughout central New Jersey, representing the area’s most significant developers, corporations and institutional end users. He counsels both commercial landlords and tenants nationwide regarding a wide variety of leasing issues. Chris’ projects involving the buying and selling of commercial real estate have used both traditional transactional techniques, condominium, sale-leasebacks, ground leases, limited liability company control transfers and tax-free exchanges. Chris regularly appears before regulatory bodies at the local, county and state level regarding a variety of environmental, land use, tax and related issues. He has successfully litigated matters throughout the state involving land use ordinance challenges and variances denials, leasing issues such as rent control ordinances and fire damage claims, as well as title questions such as the effect of private deed restrictions and neighborhood schemes. Chris has also acted as special land use and construction counsel to various public entities such as zoning boards and school districts. In addition, he is experienced with bank financings of real estate acquisitions and with the purchase and sale of properties with environmental clean-up issues. He has also handled municipal tax appeals, including a group of appeals based upon state-imposed stream protection provisions. Chris led a team of attorneys in the $283 million sale-leaseback of one million square feet of office space for a large pharmaceutical manufacturer — the largest real estate transaction in New Jersey that year.