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Updated  06/16/2008 Welcome to Camden, NJ Land and Dream       About Us     Contact   Home      Updates     
 Ideas For Camden From Camden Land and Dream 5/ 24/08 Proposal:  One Hundred Waterfronts! Camden: 3 Riverline & 3 PATCO stations Connecting Philly Airport, NE Corridor -TOD Heaven! Why Drive?
What does downtown Camden New Jersey have to offer? Only all of the best of Philadelphia, just one modern subway stop and 5 minutes away.!!! No Tier 2 Downtown in America has more potential!     
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5/10/08 Re: Homeland Security disrespects Camden, Inner Cities Open Letter To Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff 5/10/08 National Public Radio: Home Prices Drop Most In Areas With Long Commutes 
 SCTC_333x115.gifIs Camden New Jersey really necessary? 
L.A. Times, June 3, 08: Skyrocketing gasoline prices force lasting changes. With 3 PATCO STATIONS AND 4 RIVERLINE STATIONS, CAMDEN IS WELL POSITION FOR THE NEW WORLD, A REAL DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH.

Campbell's Soup World Headquarters Controversy  Click Here To See What A Modern Mixed-Use Office Campus Looks Like Vs. Campbell's

  Reduce your footprint. Rediscover walkable, sensible communities through New Urbanism. Explore economical, Livable, Safe Downtown Camden NJ and its traditional urban grid, efficient transportation, and superb location.
Visit Historic Fairview Village       5/10/ 08 Camden Planning Board Approves Hilton Hotel
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5/ 24/08 Proposal: One Hundred Waterfronts for Camden, NJ

10/19/06 Camden New Jersey "Blue Ribbon Panel"  Recommendations Camden's New Leadership

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June, 2006 Re: Budget Cuts, Urban Studies Department, Rutgers-Camden.

  It's Official: Camden, New Jersey: highest poverty rate in the U.S. -U.S. Census Bureau

An open letter to Michael Chertoff,  Division of Homeland Security

Skilled Immigrants Can Revive Camden

Is Camden necessary? Has Camden lost its logic for existence?  

A PATHWAY OUT OF POVERTY - "7 for 1" - An idea for Camden's Children 

H1b1 Visa Holders Needed to Revive Camden         

A more sensible plan for Mickle Blvd.

Camden must consider "class" and social stratification in it's plans. The 800 lb Gorilla In The Middle Of the Room. Camden's...    

What it takes to make any city an attraction: Urban Elegance 

What is "Urban Renewal?" -Michael McAteer

 Poundberry England: This residential design pattern can work in Camden, New Jersey.  Read 

Art: What we think Camden really needs is a torpedo factory. Look at this one .The Torpedo Factory

This should, and could  be Ferry Ave., a well positioned state of the art Transportation Oriented Development. 

Lower Crime With Defensible Communities        

A model for Camden, Philadelphia's Northern Liberties: A Renewal Success Story

Camden Architectural Competition

  Should Cramer Hill Consider Seceding From Camden ?     

 The Arts: Without painters, poets, comedians, writers, craftsmen, musicians, fashion designers, dancers, actors, chefs, architects and Bohemians in large numbers cities are just plain drab, boring and uninspiring. In Camden, where are those urban pioneers with the third eye? Anywhere? Camden is a cultural dead zone. In most "Comeback Cities" policy to attract the arts was a major element of their success. Offering free Creative Space clustered in a neighborhood is a sure way to attract artists. In a city like Camden, with a glut of abandoned properties, it would be easy to find thirty or forty properties appropriate for giving to artists to create an arts zone. As a qualification for free space, eligible artists and crafts persons should already be operating a creative space, restaurant or gallery someplace else. That way, city officials will know that applicants are for real, and the city will know exactly what they are getting in a space.

In downtown Camden, excessive large Parking Lots fronting the major streets erode vitality and area cohesion. These parking lots should be the subject of much needed Infill development and Eminent Domain takings when necessary, a much less traumatic and costly legal effort than evicting hundreds of homeowners. Large, well placed Parking Structures can replace much of the parking surface vertically. In such a small downtown with two PATCO Hi-Speed Line stations connecting the entire region, most of the area is within walking distance of the stations. Atlantic City style "Jitney" buses can provide quick efficient transportation throughout downtown while providing a decent living to resident entrepreneurs as Jitney owner / operators.

April 26, 2006 LET THEM GO!

"Parking remains a major issue for the Tweeter Center on peak days. The area is short the 7,200 spaces it pledged when the concert hall opened, creating frustrations for motorists and for Tweeter officials, who last year threatened to leave the city if it didn't get solved."  - Philadelphia Inquirer 
 
LET THEM GO! The last thing downtown Camden needs is more parking spaces. Thriving downtowns need high density build outs serviced by efficient inter-modal transportation. Camden has the key element - 2 HI SPEED LINE subway stops well positioned to service the entire downtown when supported by Jitney or taxi. On a nice day, there is no place in downtown too far to walk from a PATCO HI SPEEDLINE stop. The Tweeter Center is a consistently  demanding tenant that already takes up destructively too much space downtown. All the more terrible considering the few short hours it is used every month. The Tweeter Center is hardly more than a huge vacant lot with a under-used building  that contributes little to downtown vitality except an occasional traffic jam. In the main, the Tweeter Center and its vast empty parking lot is a dead zone most of the year. Let the Tweeter People go. That massive space wasting venue is used so infrequently no one would even notice they were gone. Bring in a concert operator that can generate more activity at the site, can exploit the potential of the Riverline commuter rail stop in front of its entrance, and understands Urbanism and their place in it.