Feb. 9, 2009 Camden Mayoral Election: Dana Redd May Have Edge

Feb 8, 2009, Dana Redd announces run for Camden, NJ Mayor

Feb. 9, 2008 Mayors Institute on Urban Design: In Philadelphia, Mayors Prepare Wish List, Discuss Urban Design in Light of Largest Federal Investment in American Cities Since Great Society Era

Feb. 9, 2009 Camden, NJ Riverfront Prison Neighborhood Pictures
1/23/09 New Jersey Closes Camden's Riverfront Prison, Clearing Major Development Obstacle!

Feb 8, 2009, Harvard Study: Evidence for the social benefits of building and renovating walk-able, high density neighborhoods: Happiness is contagious, spreading among friends, neighbors, siblings and spouses... a large study for the first time shows how emotion can ripple through clusters of people who may not even know each other. The findings, Christakis and others said, provide striking new evidence of the power of social networks. Happiness appears to be transmitted only among people who live within a mile of one another. ( An observation that certainly buttresses the case for New Urbanism as Public Policy! -Camden Land and Dream.)Read the Harvard study

5/26/08 Corzine's budget hits Camden hard

4/11Environmentalists: Builders writing rules in N.J. 4/11 Camden to sell $99M in tax liens on 2825 properties

4/15 NY TIMES: How Not to Develop N.J.

4/10/08Camden may get Hilton hotel

5/ 24/08 Proposal: One Hundred Waterfronts for Camden, NJ .

1/02/08 Washington Post: The End of Sprawl? Will Camden's Low Density Development, such as the poorly thought out anti-transit Campbell Soup Gateweay project rob It's future prosperity?

1/3/08 Calculate Increased Pollution In Delaware Valley From Campbell's Soup Expansion

1/4/08 Camden Courier Post: Citizens Can See Their Ideas Turned Into Law

12/25/07 Martin Luther King vs. Corporate America.
Integration vs. Disintegration. Will Camden Sell Out to Campbell's Soup?

12/25/07 applauds Governor Corzine’s bold leadership on the issue of global warming. Reducing energy use and greenhouse gas emissions could transform New Jersey into a national model of sustainability and prosperity, if a broad implementation strategy is adopted. Because the transportation sector accounts for so much of New Jersey’s greenhouse gases, the implementation strategy should include measures aimed at changing travel behavior, which in turn requires shaping development patterns so that people don’t need to drive as far – or even necessarily get in the car at all – for their daily activities.
NJ and GLOBAL WARMING

12/02/07 State awards $2 million to to build an 8,000s square-foot visitors' center to Walt Whitman's House.

9/25 NJ: Sprawl hurts efforts to cut air pollutants

9/22/07 DRPA puts Penn's Landing project cash in limbo

11/12/07 ABC TV's "Extreme Makeover" Comes To Camden, N.J.

8/15/07

Program promotes Camden safety
The Eye In the Sky committee, made up of community leaders, and a private consulting firm toured the city's business districts to begin a lengthy process of installing security cameras throughout the city's six business districts.

9/17/07

Help make Fairview Village aka Yorkship Village in Camden, NJ a "Wonder" (Temporarily turn off pop up blocker to vote)

8/13/07 Artists, admirers converge at crafts festival in Collingswood Collingswood is Camden's next door neighbor, one minute away, the next eastbound stop on the

4-day music fest set to rock Camden

7/29/07 The Dollar Value and Profitability of New Urbanist Real Estate Projects

7/14/07 NJ can't trust politicians. Most scandals have involved Democrats.

Eminent domain needed for smart growth

July 12, Camden Courier Post: New Campbell Soup Campus Terrible Design

Transit allows Chicago to be a high-rise city where the proximity of so many highly skilled professionals makes markets more efficient, supports the cosmopolitan culture that attracts investment and leads to more service jobs for non-professionals

Current Immigration Bill Ignores Needs of inner Cities. If you agree, forward letter below:
An open letter to Michael Chertoff, Division of Homeland Security

7/14Camden to raze Riverfront State Prison

June 23, 2007"Waiting for Godot" Campbells Soup, City of Camden, NJ, Star in latest production.

June 21, 2007 Panel votes to save Sears Building from Campbell's Soup Plans

6/04/07 Campbell's Soup New World HQ Design Appears To Violate State Smart Growth Plan

If Campbell's Soups New World HQ Became Mixed Use Residential and Retail, Look At These Low-Rate Loans For Investors and Consumers.

Monica Yant Kinney's June 1, 2007 Philadelphia Inquirer Criticism of New Urbanism Projects That Ignore Many Elements of CNU Charter Yet Cherry Pick Enough Other Elements to Call Themselves New Urbanist Communities is Legit

!!! 5/30/07 Camden Announces Destruction of 2nd Downtown Prison, Camden County Jail, Just Days After Announcing Tear Down of Riverfront State Pen Makes Downtown Camden Wide Open, Prime Real Estate for Development

5/24/07 NJ Gov. Corzine Set To Destroy Riverfront State Prison In Camden

5/25/07 Campbell's Soup $100 Million Single Use Campus Plan Available Online

May 19, 2007 Robert A.M. Stern, Architect, Teacher, Writer and Dean of the Yale School of Architecture Honors Camden NJ www.fairviewmainstreet.org

May 17, 2007 Camden board OKs razing of Sears building

4/28/07 Campbells Soup may leave Camden, N.J. after chaotic city historic preservation commission meeting.

5/22/07Camden needs to take out an insurance policy against Campbells Soup -by Michael McAteer
Campbells Soup may leave Camden, N.J. after chaotic...
Something Even Worse Than a Cul-de-Sac Subdivision May 19 CNU Seminar Focus on Business Parks
Current design fails to make a "place" Campbells Soup Can Do Better Become an Urban Star in Camden - M. McAteer

4/23/07 Corzine may govern via video, aides say

Aides to critically injured Gov. Jon S. Corzine are making preparations for him to run the government, at least in part, from his hospital bed.

"The real environmentalists will be buying real estate in about another five years – they're the ones who will do with less for the sake of doing the right thing." - Andres Duany. Live economically and environment friendly. Live in a walkable community with a light rail system. Camden, NJ. (One gallon of gas: 6 lbs. Every 20 gallons you burn adds 120 lbs of air pollutants.)

Monday, April 23, 2007

CAMDEN|
$2.4 million conference center to open at 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 24, officials said.

The Camden Conference Center, which features a 181-seat theater, a 90-seat banquet room and a full-service kitchen, is located inside the Camden Technology Center at the corner of Penn Street and Broadway.

The center has state-of-the-art teleconfernce technology, including an audio/video recording room, full Internet wiring, a 50-inch flat-screen information center and a video projection system.

4/18/07 " For Dranoff, the developer of Philadelphia's Symphony House, Venice Lofts and the Left Bank, there's nothing left to prove. The toehold of development that once was the Camden, NJ waterfront has reached a "tipping point," he said.

3/29/07 TRENTON - Architect of Camden Takeover Legislation State Sen. Wayne Bryant and the former dean of the University of Medicine and Dentistry's Stratford campus were indicted this afternoon on corruption charges...
BRYANT, UMDNJ'S GALLAGHER INDICTED

New owner for PoliticsNJ.com - 9:07 am 3/09/07

What is the definition of "oligarchy?" (Hint: Camden, NJ has a rapidly disintegrating local one. The Feds, and Gov. Corzine's final purge of Camden's culture of political corruption and cronyism is virtually complete. Top posts vacant.)

From the Archive: As In Boston, the possibility that subsidized housing in Camden might block construction of a higher and better use, one which will generate jobs and property taxes that would benefit far more people.

Growth in Detroit's Existing Home Sales Outpaces Suburbs in 2006

By Rohn Hein

"More than 30 years have passed since the New Jersey Supreme Court issued its famous Mount Laurel decision mandating that all communities in the state should bear their fair share of affordable housing..."

3/09/07 ,,, in an age when American cities are competing for jobs and residents, a modern mayor can't be just a social worker. If the next leader expects people to stick around, he's going to have to conjure a dream of a better, more amenity-rich future. He'll need a plan that, in the words of Chicago's Daniel Burnham, has the "magic to stir men's blood." Inga Saffron Inquirer Architecture Critic

3/11/07/ C-P Camden used the services of Dwaine Williams, who has no college degree nor any background in engineering. Questions are being raised about whether, to save money, the Camden Redevelopment Agency cut corners on quality control while constructing a $77 million project in East Camden.Because the concrete being laid beneath the floors is too thin, "they will crack within three to seven years . . . And the foundation is inadequate to support the weight of the building,"

Saturday, March 3, 2007 What is Urban Renewal? by Michael McAteer

3/1/07 The Congress for the New Urbanism Featured Salon Conversation: Camden, New Jersey

Saturday, March 3, 2007Crackdown on funding is overdue in Camden - Courierpost

Camden City Real Estate Transactions

Extending BLACK HISTORY MONTH.."The ugly nature of man, was staged in force, in the Negro shotgun shack village..." When Empty, Return to Camden, New Jersey" by Michael McAteer

3/02/07 Spending crackdown sets Camden on edge
By Dwight Ott
Inquirer Staff Writer

2/28/07 Growth in Detroit's Existing Home Sales Outpaces Suburbs in 2006

Posted on Wed, Feb. 28, 2007Portrayal of Camden betrays city's advances Former Camden County Prosecutor Vince Sarubbi spoke.

2/14/07 Phila. Inquirer: Camden can rebuild itself as sales-tax-free zone

2/23/07 Architect of Camden Takeover Legislation stripped of power, Bryant largely ignored. City purge of corruption finished. All top posts in Camden vacant. New era for city begins.

2/16/07 Coming To Philadelphia for the first time, May 17 - 20
Congress for the New Urbanism

Check registration fees

C P - Feb 16Delaware River towns reclaim the waterfront (Camden is a Delaware River Town)

CP 12/26/07 New Urbanism has potential in region

2/13/07 Phila. Inquirer: Making the new feel older again New Urbanists turning to Collingswood.

2/04/07 The Rev. Willie R. James Sr. is responsible for many meaningful civil-rights gains in South Jersey - not the least of which is the desegregation of Levittown. Blacks were not allowed to move out of places like Camden through racist traditions, custom and practice in South Jersey. These practices also applied to suburban workplaces, thereby concentrating minorities in cities that lost employers to the suburbs, compounding and exacerbating the effects and pathologies of poverty.

Feb 10 Kinder, gentler rebirth hope of some in Camden

Feb 10 Camden's poor should shame local politicians

2/3/07 FBI Investigating recently resigned Randy Primas, top administrator of Camden.

2/3/07Camden murder rate zero. An accomplishment not seen since at least 1980, officials said Friday.

Feb 1, 2007 The shame of Camden demands a response

Feb 1, 2007 Wanted: VOLUNTEERS, ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY BUILDERS / CONSULTANTS NEEDED to make "7 for 1" A PATHWAY OUT OF POVERTY, A REALITY.

1/14/07 HOUSING: Courier Editorial: Stop Concentrating Low Income Housing in Cities

1/28/07 Breaking News: A Case Study in How Political Sleaze Image Develops in Camden, New Jersey: Ethics questions swirl around city land deal. Suspicions of law breaking and official corruption regarding Camden's recently resigned COO and Executive Director. "During their final months in office..." 2/3/07 FBI Investigating recently resigned top administrator of Camden.

On January 27, 2007 England's Royal's Prince Charles and wife, the duchess of Cornwall, visited Philadelphia.

Benefit: the South Camden Theatre
Company! Sunday February 11th at 1:30 pm

1/30/07Camden takeover under review

Theater can change people's lives. Just ask Joseph M. Paprzycki. He Hopes to Change Camden Through Art

1/30/07 FRANK FULBROOK:"...RCA funds as racist blood money. Any municipality that accepts these funds is endorsing suburban racism, whether they are willing to admit it or not."

ABC TV Show 20/20 with Diane Sawyer, Featured, Friday, January 26th, 2007, "Camden, New Jersey As A Place of Hope"

Hopes, Dreams, Hardships in Camden Abandoned homes, empty lots, gunfire, police sirens. These are the sights and sounds of Camden, N.J.

1/23/07Have you hugged a (legal) immigrant today? Go ahead. You should. Those innovating immigrants By Porus P. Cooper South Jersey Commentary Editor,

1/23/07 Phila. Inquirer A growing trend: Center City families
Newcomers are well-educated, affluent and young. The challenge will be keeping them.

Prince Charles Foundation for the Built Environ.

There's a royal visit in Phila.'s future. The couple arrive Jan. 27; themes of the royal couple's trip, to include "youth development" and "urban regeneration. Murals may be on itinerary.

January 19, 2007 Rutgers University and The Ford Foundation Present: A Web site driven by a data base of more than 400aerial and sidewalk-level images of Camden's building stock and commercial districts indexed to visual screen maps. A visitor to the site can "fly" above the city streets and click down to see specific sections of the urban area as well examine some of those areas have changed since 1979.

1/27/07Author ignores his own evidence. This scattered-site housing idea is not implausible on its face.

Camden Waterfront: January, 8, 2007 A plan to convert a slice of downtown Camden into a $500 million health sciences campus -- may gain port approval later this month. - Courier Post

January, 8, 2007 The Broadway clinic site.

Once the move is approved and Parkside Recovery leaves its current site, acquisition of the rest of the block for a health science mega-campus centered around Cooper University Hospital should come relatively easily, said John P. Sheridan Jr., senior vice president and trustee of Cooper.

The Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Education and Research Building, is expected to rise in place of the clinic. The $130 million project will house, at least, 110 third- and fourth-year medical students already in Camden.

If the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey decides to open a full medical school there, the building will include space for a four-year program.

No medical school is planned at the present time, said Sheridan.

Also in the works is the Rutgers University Systems Biology Building for stem-cell research.

The $50 million building will be built by the Economic Development Authority, owned by Rutgers and operated by a consortium of Rutgers, Coriell Institute, the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Cancer Institute of New Jersey-South Jersey. On Thursday, the Legislature passed a bill creating funding for the Camden site and several other labs in the state to conduct stem-cell research.

This building would swallow the 300 block of Broadway,

Why is "Regionalism" and the expansion of social contacts for the people of Camden important? How did you find your last job? 85% of all people, across the educational and professional spectrum, report they found their job through a friend or relative. If all or most of your friends and relatives live and work in Camden, what kind of job and pay rate are you likely to acquire? "In today's competitive job market, we rely on insider information and connections to identify the best jobs and make the best match. On the flip side, employers trust the opinions of their most successful employees and value their recommendations for new hires." - University of Massachusetts Alumni Magazine

Jan, 4, 2006

"A number of towns have reinvented themselves and made a major comeback from the doldrums when malls emerged victorious in the regional retailing war," said James Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University in New Brunswick.

Jan 4, 2007 Arijit De, Camden Redevelopment Chief Quits

	Jan 4, 2007Leading Primas aide resigns Arijit De was a key architect of Camden renewal. Primas' successor was unaware of his decision. By Dwight Ott, Inquirer Staff Writer Arijit De, the top aide to former Camden chief operating officer Melvin R. Primas and a major behind-the-scenes architect of the bedraggled city's future, quit his job yesterday.
	He was the last of Primas' tight circle to exit in the aftermath of Primas' resignation last year.

Jan 4, 2007Wayne Bryant, Chief Architect of Camden, New Jersey Takeover, Files for $83,000 Annual Pension Request While Under Federal Investigation For "No Show" Job.

Jan 4, 2007 Arijit De, Redevelopment Chief Quits Governor Corzine replaced De with Fels Institute John Kromer who, for the past 3 years, has assisted the Camden ( New Jersey) Redevelopment Agency (CRA) with capacity-building, organizational development, and strategic planning tasks to support CRA’s role in implementing a multi-year citywide redevelopment initiative, which failed miserably. Kromers book reviews...

Philadelphia, May, 2006. Be sure to attend. Check registration fees and begin to plan ahead.

Review last years Congress, which was held in Providence, RI.

12/26/06 Camden Directionless

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

By ALAN GUENTHER
Courier-Post Staff

CAMDEN

events of last years Congress in Providence, RI

Casino's to Face Camden Waterfront

12/14/06 Retired Judge Named Interim Camden COO

12/15/06Retired Judge Davis, New Interim COO, is a Republican in City Run by Democratic Party

12/13/06 Corzines Katrina?

12/14/06 High anxiety
A developer plans to build a $3.5 billion string of 10 residential and office towers above SEPTA's rail tracks beside JFK Boulevard and along the Schuylkill. ( Why not a string of $3.5 billion office and residential towers above PATCO's Ferry Ave. Station?)

	A 1,000-foot colossus by the Schuylkill
	Convention Center's $700M expansion

12/12/06 Family Values translates into economic statistics. U.S. Divorce Rate: 53%
China's Divorce Rate: 14% India's Divorce Rate: 1% Chinese and Indian students combined account for 50 % of all advanced science and math graduate degrees awarded yearly by U.S. universities. In America, 70 percent of long term prisoners, 60 percent of rapists, and 75 percent of adolescents charged with murder... ( More....)

12/05/06 Get The People of Camden On Board
Courier-Post Editorial

12/05/ 06 Primas ask's regional communities to step up

Tuesday, December 5, 2006

By ALAN GUENTHER
CAMDEN Courier-Post Staff

After decades where suburban towns forced Camden to accept their jails and prisons, their sewage treatment plants and trash incinerators; after decades of sending their poorest, most troubled citizens to the city, it is time for surrounding communities to step up and help the city get back on its feet.

That, in part, is the message in a long-awaited final report released Monday by Randy Primas, Camden's outgoing chief operating officer.

12/04/06 L egally mandated 4 year Camden, New Jersey Renewal (MRERA) progress report was delivered to Gov. Corzine today.

Become an Urban Star in Camden, New Jersey

Focus on people, patience will help Camden recovery

A visit to Cooper-Grant neighborhood shows the real possibilities when residents are empowered and motivated.

By Porus P. Cooper

12/04/06/ South Jersey Commentary Editor

Back in October, I lamented in this column that the state's rescue plan for Camden, though well-intentioned, was faltering because it was "mostly about buildings - building them, expanding them, tearing them down - and almost nothing about people."
New buildings added to Coopers Grant and selling fast. Frank Fulbrook leads the way.

12/04/06 Corzine adds two more to search panel.
Two leaders of the city's Hispanic community with opposing viewpoints have been added to the governor's search committee for Camden's new chief operating officer.

December 2, 2006 Isaac Backus, a prominent Baptist minister in New England, observed that when:

"church and state are separate, the effects are happy, and they do not at all interfere with each other: but where they have been confounded together..,

12/02/06 New Website by Camden Family Physician and activist Dr.Jeff Brenner: Leave A Public Message for Governor Corzine

12/01/06 A little background on the feckless and susceptible to blackmail New Jersey Governor who signed the Camden Takeover legislation at the bidding of SJ Pol's

12/02/06 Buyers Keen for new Cooper Grant Homes

12/01/06 A little background on the South Jersey politician who was the architect of the Camden, New Jersey Takeover legislation in conjunction with the New Jersey Governor mentioned above.

12/01/06 Randy Primas, outgoing City of Camden, New Jersey COO and his relationship with the architect of the Camden Takeover Legislation

11/30/06 Outgoing Camden COO State of the City Address

11/29/06 Primas Offers Challenge to Community Groups

11/29/06 Primas Recounts His Tenure
Philadelphia Inquirer

11/30/06 Primas Farewell Comments

11/19/06 Camden Needs Eminent Domain, Arijit De, Executive Director, Camden Redevelopment Agency

Nov-22-06 Governor's Statement on the Revitalization of Camden

11/22/06 Gov. Corzine: U.S. Search for New Camden Leader

11/22/06 Corzine to extend state oversight of Camden The Courier-Post 6 More Years of State Oversight

11/26/06/ New Homes Go On Sale Saturday

Eighteen lots that will provide the first market-rate housing in Camden in more than 20 years will go on sale Saturday morning

11/29/06 Primas to leave uncertain legacy

11/21/06 Dark Cloud over Camden, New Jersey, according to local rappers

November 26, 2006

In the Region | New Jersey

Market Poised to Get ‘Gay Friendlier’ NY Times

11/12/06 Camden, New Jersey Cop Arrested in Hold Ups

11/18/06 Spate of Violence Rocks Camden, New Jersey

10/31/06 Camden: 'Most dangerous' city no more
After having the crown as America's Most Dangerous City stolen, leaders steel themselves to stay out of the top slot.

11/17/06 Annual Camden, New Jersey Grants Seminar
Guide to applying and receiving Grants.

10/26/06 The release of Milton Milan, Camden's first Hispanic mayor, from federal prison is generating mixed emotions in the Latino community that once embraced him.

11/15/06 Effort To Recall Camden, New Jersey Mayor Faison Begins

11/14/06 New Leadership Can Find The Way To Fiscal Recovery
By Howard Gillette,
Rutgers professor and author of the landmark work "Camden After the Fall "

Rethinking Revitalization in Camden, New Jersey, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2006
Photograph of Street Gangster Carrying Gun in Camden, New Jersey, November 5, 2006 More Photos

If Camden is ever to escape its many problems, it can't have a corrupt former mayor as a political or community leader. Upon his conviction, U.S. District Judge Joel A. Pisano told Milan that he had made Camden "the laughingstock of urban America."
10/26/06 Courier Post Keep Milan out of politics in Camden

11/ 02/ 06 Camden Latino's Seek to Recall Camden's Black Mayor

11/15/06 Milton Milan Welcome?

11/01/06Hispanic leader seeks recall of Faison

11/15/06 Leadership Vacuum Accounts for Former Camden, New Jersey Mayor'a Appeal

Camden New Jersey's Political and Administrative Collapse Complete: Sunday, October 15, 2006
Governor Corzine To Address Situation Soon
By ALAN GUENTHER
Updates on Political Situation: Courier-Post Staff

10/01/06 About Camden's Political Crisis: How will it affect renewal effort?

Links to Political Scandals Rocking Camden New Jersey

Camden: 10/29/06 Here is the "Blue Ribbon" Dream Team that could save Camden New Jersey.

"It takes twenty years, a full generation, to recover from a collapsed revitalization effort."- Brookings Institute

National: "The federal Section 8 housing voucher program—which now serves 2.1 million households,...This scattered-site housing idea is not implausible on its face. A Democratic administration could embrace it enthusiastically, as the Clinton administration came close to doing. Conservative columnist David Brooks, worried about the persistence of a distinct African-American underclass,..“dismantling” the ghetto and relocating its residents.... . . our neighborhood was overrun by Section 8 housing when the housing market dropped after 9/11 and . . . landlords [started] seeking easy rent paid directly to them from the government. Most of the houses that are currently being rented in our neighborhood are on a Section 8 voucher system. Tenants who profess to be single mothers in reality have live in boyfriends AKA fathers and continue to have more children. I am very concerned for my property values, no one will even want to buy my home for what the other properties...When the CHA built 2,500 “scattered-site” units in non-ghetto areas, for instance, building managers “acknowledged that a majority of families appeared unmotivated or unable to significantly change their life patterns”—despite no longer living in the ghetto." More...

10/26/06 The release of Milton Milan, Camden's first Hispanic mayor, from federal prison is generating mixed emotions in the Latino community

Milton Milan's release from prison hovers over Camden like a Pirate eyeing easy booty.
10/26/06 Courier Post Keep Milan out of politics in Camden

If Camden is ever to escape its many problems, it can't have a corrupt former mayor as a political or community leader. Upon his conviction, U.S. District Judge Joel A. Pisano told Milan that he had made Camden "the laughingstock of urban America."

Much of Camden's Hispanic leadership welcomes convicted felon back into the political fold. Hispanics represent 38% of Camden's population, and is its fastest growing ethnic group.

10/15/06 Primas, Camden's czar, abruptly resigns

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

The numbers are in and it's official -- Camden is the poorest city in the United States, according to the U.S. Census:

Poverty Stats

From National Public Radio (NPR) :
Widespread Fraud in Camden, New Jersey Schools