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HOBOKEN, N.J. — Pearson Education, an education textbook company, has signed a 200,000-square-foot lease for its new headquarters in downtown Hoboken. The company will occupy five floors of the Waterfront Corporate III building, which SJP Properties is building. Pearson had planned to move its operations in Upper Saddle River and Old Tappan, N.J. to New York. The company is reported to receive an Urban Transit Hub tax credit of about $66 million for keeping 900 jobs in northern New Jersey. Waterfront Corporate is slated for completion in 2014. Person will begin its relocation the same year.