Ironside Newark at 110 Edison Place in Newark — File photo / Courtesy: Edison Properties
Mars Snacking is closing its Newark office, the site of its U.S. headquarters for the last six years, following a lease that helped the city land one of its best-known corporate tenants in recent memory.
The company — the maker of M&Ms and other iconic candy and snack brands — confirmed late Friday that it would shift operations to its growing North American headquarters campus in Chicago. That will take place by December 2027, a spokeswoman said, leaving behind a 110,000-square-foot office space at 110 Edison Place that has anchored a growing section of the downtown…