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SHELBY TOWNSHIP (WWJ) — A single candle is believed to be the cause of a fire which damaged about a dozen apartments in Shelby Township . Firefighters believe a candle tipped over while a resident in the Pebble Creek Apartments slept and burned for a while before the resident woke up to a smoldering scene. Shelby Fire Chief Jim Swinkowski says the man and his son tried to move the burning couch out of the apartment but couldn’t do it. “Him and his son tried to get the couch out — unable to because of the smoke — so they got out called us, and by the time our first engine got here from like a mile and a half away – next thing you know the fire was through the apartment, through the roof and shooting up in the air,” said Swinkowski. A total of 10 units in the complex were damaged — putting dozens of people scurrying for safety and now alternative housing. Nieghbor Lonnie O’Bryant lives next door to where the fire started: “There are a lot of innocent people who had nothing to do with...

Gebroe-Hammer Associates Coveted apartment  complex fetches $40M An apartment community in tony West Orange , NJ,  has been sold for $40.5 million. Gebroe- Hammer Associates brokered the sale of the 178- unit Crest Ridge Apartments complex . The team of Greg Pine and Adam Zweibel exclusively represented the original developer , Rockledge Realty, LLC, and procured the buyer, Sela Realty Investments , in the transaction. Located at 200 Mt. Pleasant Ave. at the base of an 80 ft. cliff, the 16-building, historically well- occupied complex posed an extremely rare acquisition opportunity within the Northern New Jersey metro. “Situated in the Town Center section of West Orange, Crest Ridge Apartments is at the heart of one of the most expensive, in- demand local neighborhoods as well as the transit- filled greater West Essex County submarket ,” said Pine. “In a township where apartment rentals make up only about one-third of the housing stock, Crest Ridge Apartments is a gem favored...