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| Suburbs continue to send their drug and
criminal problems to Camden. July 13, 2006 Read |
July 15, 2006
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| 7/12/06 Boulevard could get makeoverCity officials are mulling development of a $115 million retail complex on westbound Admiral Wilson Boulevard, a highway now lined with gas stations, liquor stores and empty lots.Makeover |
7/09/06 Big Difference Between Each City's System for Those Seeking Property Information Property Search for Alexandria Va. Camden, New Jersey
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| July 6, 2006 The New Urbanism: CNU Toolkit Launched | July
6, 2006 Hear Developer Yaromir Steiner Speak Re: Coopers Crossing,
Camden, NJ Yaromir Steiner Audio |
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| July
5, 2006 Recent Real Estate Transactions
in Camden, New Jersey, Last 30 days |
Camden Crime Maps and Data As of May 23, 2006 |
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6/22/06
TV star Bill Cosby surprises Camden students
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6/22/06 Philadelphia Inquirer Editorial | State's gamble starting to pay off Camden's waterfront took another step toward a brighter future with this week's unveiling of plans for a $750 million, 40-acre mixed-use development. The waterfront is finally attracting the long-desired confidence of private investors that New Jersey expected. It was the right gamble for the state. |
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| Thinking of buying in the suburbs? Before you do, do yourself a favor. Read "Suburban Nation." ( Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck) This is an important book, as vital as Jane Jacobs' work, and it has some uncomfortable truths to share. | |||
| 6/20/06 The latest in Camden New Jersey Waterfront Development | 6/11/06 Camden's Youth Need Mentors, Decent Allowances, Places to Go Outside The City. A Proposal.. | ||
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6/20/06
Economics shake up cities' makeup By Blaine HardenWashington Post PORTLAND, Ore. - Already the whitest major city in the United States, Portland is rapidly becoming even whiter at its core."The heart of the black community is gone," said Charles Ford, 76, a black activist |
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| 6/18/06 Penn to develop Schuylkill's west bank | Philadelphia's
prospects? In today's global economy, the regions that will thrive are those with an attractive mix of talent, technology and tolerance, Richard Florida asserted in his best-seller The Rise of the Creative Class. |
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19, 2006 Philly:
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June 19, 2006 Burrell
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Is 6/11/06 Camden's Youth Need Mentors, Decent Allowances, Places to Go Outside The City. A Proposal.. 6/10/06 PATCO DEVELOPMENT "I want to buy a condominium there," said Kathy Daly Bennett. "I want to be able to walk across the street and take the speedline into Philadelphia." |
6/12/06
Inquirer: Crafting
a 'creative economy'
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6/08/06 "It's
hard to be a saint in the city." - Bruce Springsteen NEWS UPDATE NJ Gov. Corzine
To Hold Brainstorming Summit In Camden Re: Renewal June 30, 2006
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6/08/06
Board Meeting Agenda
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CNU:
6/3/06 America
’s Two Largest
Generations Are Headed Downtown. If
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| 6/03/06 Camden's Rep. in D.C. Congressman Rob. Andrews looks ahead to 2008 Senate race | 6/03/06
Andrews Record on SJ Sprawl: "It's becoming a more stressful place to live.." -Rep. Rob Andrews Tuesday, January 14, 2003 |
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| 6/02/06
The News as it happens at this weekend's Congress for New Urbanism
Convention, Providence RI For the latest and greatest news from CNU XIV check out these great sites: www.dailyNUws.com www.cnunextgen.org www.urbanlabs.org |
May 27, 2006
An Open Letter To:
New Jersey Governor Corzine, the New Jersey Legislature, Susan
Bass-Levin - Commissioner
Community Affairs |
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One Mile From Camden: In October 2005, National
Geographic Traveler magazine declared to its more than five million
readers that Philadelphia is America’s “Next
Great City."
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4/22/06 The 2006 summer will fall short of what was predicted for it a year ago - that the Camden riverfront would be a place where visitors could easily spend a full day and night. Bruce Springsteen to perform in Camden on mellow tour. 4/18/06 CAMDEN Gestalt Corp., an information technology firm, has received a $53.3 million defense grant to improve communications for the U.S. Navy and Air Force.By far the largest grant the company has received in its five-year history, the multimillion award also is expected to create about 50 jobs over the two-year life of the contract at its Camden headquarters. May 26, 2006 Cramer
Hill plan scrapped
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May 4, 2006 Camden Appeals Ruling on Bergen Square
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May 4, 2006 Dranoff to rehab 2nd Camden RCA Factory Site into waterfront condos. | ||
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April 30, 2006 Initiative for a Competitive Inner City
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"The words of the
prophets are written on the subway walls..." Transportation
centric development April 30, 2006 NPR - How will our lives change if gas prices continue to rise? Don Gonyea and Robert Cervero, head of the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California Berkeley, peer into the future: NPR High
Gas Prices To Stimulate Move to High Density, Transportation Oriented
Development, Listen to April 30, 2006
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| Jane Jacobs "...challenged and changed the way people view cities..,and proposed radically new principles for rebuilding cities." | 
April 26, 2006
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| 4/25/06 A local arts center will celebrate Walt Whitman's birthday with 24 hours of poetry. | 
This coming
Sunday, April 30, In nearby Philadelphia, A
walk in the arts
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| 4/18/06 Bruce Springsteen to perform in Camden on mellow tour. | 4/18/06 CAMDEN Gestalt Corp., an information technology firm, has received a $53.3 million defense grant to improve communications for the U.S. Navy and Air Force.By far the largest grant the company has received in its five-year history, the multimillion award also is expected to create about 50 jobs over the two-year life of the contract at its Camden headquarters. | ||
| The problem for Camden's unemployed is not that there are no good jobs, but that most of Camden's unemployed are unemployable in today's job market. Politicians who blame Camden's problems on a lack of jobs are off the mark. There is no serious jobs gap in Camden, only a serious skills gap. | |||
| 4/16/05 Arts summit to address S.J. culture | 4/16/06 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. | ||
| 4/14/06 While Camden's dormant recovery effort slumbers, in Washington D.C.... 4/14/06 NY Times: | 4/10/06 What the space race was to the cold war, the "brain race" is to today's peaceful global economic competition. The comprehensive immigration reform America needs is one that slashes unskilled immigration and creates a skill-rewarding points system modeled on those of Australia, Britain and Canada. | ||
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Regional Real Estate Comparisons About 8,830
residents cast ballots for mayor, about 24 percent of the
city's 36,373 registered voters. The 800 lb Gorilla In The Middle Of the Room. Camden's...
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4/12/06 Camden Courier
Post Playwright
Joseph Paprzycki's New Theater 3/27/06 The median sales price for homes in Camden increased by 81 percent between 2003 and last year, according to a new Prudential Fox & Roach Realtors analysis of five central and southern New Jersey counties. 3/08/06 Arijit De, Camden and State Officials need to mobilize and get in on this: "An investment of $500 million would be required. It will initially be engineers and talent from universities. The labs would be set up in the US and India. People can work under different projects in a particular field like nanotechnology to develop the next generation technologies.so we will see a lot of changes in the US's emigration policy as well so that it becomes much easier for people to come to US.The USDIL is one attempt to drive innovation and develop products.
2/27/06 How to Start Your
Own Youth Development Micro-Program - Rutgers
University
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| ERB
Board Meeting April 25, 2006, 10am-12 noon United Way of Camden County 196 Newton Avenue Camden, NJ |
4/09/06 Confronting
‘national scandal’ Young black men in crisis: Renewed drive to break the cycle of drugs, jail and death By Dwayne Campbell Inquirer Staff Writer |
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‘national scandal’ Young black men in crisis: Renewed drive to break the cycle of drugs, jail and death By Dwayne Campbell Inquirer Staff Writer |
April 9, 2006
The
eighth annual Regional
Business/Arts Summit will be held from 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 27,
at the Enterprise Center at Burlington County College in Mount Laurel, off
Route 38 and Interstate 295.
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Thursday, April 6, 2006
By ALAN GUENTHER Courier-Post Staff CAMDEN Cramer Hill residents on Wednesday said they want guarantees that the city won't take their homes before a new one is ready for them to move into. |
Friday, April 7, 2006 Neighborhoods' rebirth envisioned | ||
| 3/27/06 The median sales price for homes in Camden increased by 81 percent between 2003 and last year, according to a new Prudential Fox & Roach Realtors analysis of five central and southern New Jersey counties. | 3/26/06 Regional Real Estate Comparisons Philadelphia PA and Southern New Jersey | ||
| 3/10/06 Eminent domain is an essential tool for the rebirth of cities and small towns statewide. | 3/14/06
Hip-hop's
fresh voice Dave Ghetto's gritty, grown-up themes are earning a wider audience - and putting his home town, Camden, on rap's map. |
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| CAMDEN NEW JERSEY 3/01/06 A new bill could bring a $50 million stem-cell research center to the city, a major coup for a region looking to position itself as a new center for high-tech industries. |
The Other Side, Camden New Jersey Activists: Tom Knoche, Frank Fulbrook, Father Michael Doyle, Ali Sloan-El Should Cramer Hill Consider Seceding From Camden ? 2/4/06 Plan will benefit Cramer Hill residents
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| 3/09/06 Robert Bruegmann, Phd., talks nonsense about Sprawl.... | 3/12/06 Redevelopment is the future of development in New Jersey, in part because the state is running out of developable land. Experts estimate that at the current pace of development and preservation, the state will be the first to reach full build-out in 20 to 40 years. Redevelopment maximizes investments, both public and private, already made in communities. It restores choices in housing and for moving around that aren't available in new, automobile-dependent developments. But redevelopment is also reshaping New Jersey because the market demands it. | ||
| 3/08/06 Arijit De, Director of the Camden Redevelopment Authority, Camden and State Officials need to mobilize quickly to get in on this: "An investment of $500 million would be required. It will initially be engineers and talent from universities. The labs would be set up in the US and India. People can work under different projects in a particular field like nanotechnology to develop the next generation technologies.So we will see a lot of changes in the US's emigration policy as well so that it becomes much easier for people to come to US.The USDIL is one attempt to drive innovation and develop products." | 3/08/06 Founded in 2001, the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN) is dedicated to harnessing the cultural relevance of Hip-Hop music to serve as a catalyst for education advocacy and other societal concerns fundamental to the well-being of at-risk youth throughout the United States. HSAN is a non-profit, non-partisan national coalition of Hip-Hop artists, entertainment industry leaders, education advocates, civil rights proponents, and youth leaders united in the belief that Hip-Hop is an enormously influential agent for social change which must be responsibly and proactively utilized to fight the war on poverty and injustice.The Hip Hop Summit Network | ||
3/05/06 3/05/06 The 800 lb Gorilla In The Middle Of the Room. Camden's... |
3/04/06 CAMDEN LAND and DREAM: Personal Responsibility, Self-Reliance and Organic, Market Oriented Renewal vs. Government Administered Subsidized Personal Support for distressed urban populations are two different roads leading to the same place, albeit one road requires constant maintenance and charges starkly higher tolls than the other. |
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| 3/04/06 A metaphor for Regionalism?""The way to defeat the aspirations of the bombers is simple. You just turn a little in your seat towards the person in the suit, or the burkah, or the turban, or the sari, or the Nigerian print cotton sitting next to you and say something - anything. "Hello", or "Can you tell me where to get off the bus for the British Museum?", or "Isn't the weather awful?" "Human contact - that's all it takes - and then the bombers have lost and we have won." -A Vietnamese student in London who was not on the bombed #30 bus that day. Not as unfathomable a curiosity as a Camden student in downtown Haddonfield, still "Remittance Girl" A current blog of a Vietnamese student in downtown London is interesting, and may hold some lessons for cross-cultural understanding. |
3/03/06
Courier Post: Proficiency rates on
the fourth-grade New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge soared
at several Camden elementary schools in 2004-05, according to state
report cards released in February.In language arts, proficiency rates
jumped by 31.9 percentage points at Washington School and by at least 10
percentage points at five more of the district's 19 elementary
schools.Math proficiency rates spiraled by 47.4 percentage points at
Catto, one of 11 schools that saw double-digit gains.While proficiency
rates remained below 50 percent at nine Camden schools in 2004-05, they
topped 90 percent in four schools, putting
students there on a par with peers from affluent communities like
Haddonfield, Cherry Hill, Medford, Mount Laurel and Wenonah. "Why shouldn't our scores go up?" Superintendent Annette Knox asked, in comments relayed by spokesman Bart Leff. "We have placed significant effort on improving test scores through unified curriculum innovations, staff development, cutting edge technology and the use of curricular coaches and consultants."Knox attributed the improvements to efforts made within each school and in the district's central office, according to Leff. |
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From Camden Renewal Ground Zero: Camden Resident Phil Cohen Stem-Cell
Research CAMDEN 3/01/06 Citizen
Action Home
Welcome
to Camden Land and Dream Contact A PATHWAY OUT OF POVERTY - "7 for 1" - An idea for Camden's Children from Camden Land and Dream
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Camden After the Fall
H1b1
Visa Holders Needed to Revive Camden Sridhar Krishnaswami in Washington | February 03, 2006 : Bush urges US Congress to lift H-1B visa limit 3/10/06 Eminent domain is an essential tool for the rebirth of cities and small towns statewide. 3/12/06 Redevelopment is the future of development in New Jersey, in part because the state is running out of developable land. Experts estimate that at the current pace of development and preservation, the state will be the first to reach full build-out in 20 to 40 years. Redevelopment maximizes investments, both public and private, already made in communities. It restores choices in housing and for moving around that aren't available in new, automobile-dependent developments. But redevelopment is also reshaping New Jersey because the market demands it.
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| 3/01/06 Save The Date: The Rutgers University School of Business- Camden will host "Sales Skills for Business Owners" from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 11.The business building is on 3rd Street, between Cooper Street and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge on the Rutgers-Camden campus. To register and for location information, call (856) 225-6221. | 2/27/06 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. | ||
| 2/27/06 How to Start Your Own Youth Development Micro-Program - Rutgers University |
2/27/06 "Race
and Space" by John
a. Powell "A
poor and racially segregated urban core harms the reputation of the
metropolitan region as a whole and makes it less inviting to
international, national and local businesses as well as families looking
for homes. But White suburbanites have
traditionally resisted claims like these that tie them to the inner city.
The justification for this resistance changes over time. The current
justification is that the “culture of poverty” found in the inner
cities will infiltrate protected suburban enclaves — a justification
that is simply a new name for a long-standing racism directed toward the
central cities. White segregationism, or resistance to regionalism, manifests itself in support of in-place strategies. Such strategies attempt to move resources and opportunities to low-income central city residents, and to generate improvements in urban neighborhoods of color, as opposed to mobility-oriented schemes, which aim to disperse central city residents to existing opportunities." |
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| 2/26/06 Marcus Knuckles sees the end coming to his time in Camden. "I know I'll move, it's just inevitable," the 30-year-old father of two said. "It hurts, though." It's for the sake of his children that he plans to move to a community like Washington Township or Blackwood. The Camden schools are too dangerous, he said. | 2/26/06 Gang activity on the rise in Southern New Jersey | ||
| 2/26/06 Those who point to the building or rehabilitation of low income housing as signs of urban renewal are as off base as those who point to an addition to an aquarium to make the same point. In the growing number of American cities enjoying a successful renewal, the one thing they all have in common is an emphasis on organic market force Infill development. If Camden had secured its downtown from blight and crime, made an effort to market Camden's extraordinary location and transportation assets and initiated high density residential development around its three PATCO stations, no state takeover would have been necessary. Still, when it comes to Infill, this is a strategy Camden has yet to consider. Strategies for Successful Infill Development | February
23, 2006 Violent crime falls in Camden Last year, homicides dropped 29 percent from 2004, rapes 16 percent, robberies 15 percent, burglaries 12 percent, theft 16 percent, auto theft 30 percent, and arson 17 percent, officials said. |
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| February 22, 2006
See Neighborhoods connected to Camden New Jersey by
The PATCO Hi-Speed Line. ( Modern High Speed Commuter Rail.) Camden's three PATCO stations connecting to historic and downtown Philadelphia less than ten minutes away are ideal for high-density transportation oriented residential development. |
February
22, 2006
Camden's greatest asset is it's proximity to downtown Philadelphia and it's three modern PATCO high-speed commuter rail stations. Camden's future depends on high density transportation oriented residential development around these stations. The NJ Transportation Trust Fund needs immediate action. It will be bankrupt by June 30, possibly forcing the shutdown of NJ Transit. |
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| 2/21/06/
States Curbing Right to Seize Private Homes lawmakers in virtually every
statehouse across the country are advancing bills and constitutional
amendments to limit use of the government's power of eminent domain to
seize private property for economic development purposes.
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2/ 21/06 Courier Post Re: Eminent Domain: Do you approve or disapprove? Would you approve the use of eminent domain by your town to take your neighbor's property if that holds down your taxes? Please share your views... | ||
| February
19, 2006 Harvard University economist Edward Glaeser has provided ample empirical evidence that firms gather in particular regions to gain advantages from common labor pools. Nobel prize-winning economist Robert Lucas maintains that the driving force in the growth and development of cities and regions can be found in the productivity gains associated with the clustering of talented people. |
Feb. 19, 2006
Creative Cities
“The
Creative City”
Check out this that a plan of action report from Cincinnati
Tomorrow. (in PDF format) |
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| February 17, 2006 Creativity is one important civic responsibility among many. | February
19, 2006
"...in a town once famous for manufacturing household items used everyday, from soap to television sets, the main “industry” for far too many is poverty, crime, and social dysfunction, and the bureaucracy that services it. ...We in Camden have as
much right to Not In My Back Yard when it comes to homeless shelters,
half-way houses for paroled criminals, and drug clinics…. If anything,
we in Camden perhaps have a greater claim, because Camden has been pulling
the rest of the county’s weight for the maintenance of the dysfunctional
for far too many years. Why is it, then that when the “social service
industry” is so quick to defend their constituency/clients/customer
base, so little is done to defend or promote the interest of the homeowner
or business-person? |
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2/16/06 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.
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2/15/06 Whites want to keep minorities “immobile” and out of their suburban neighborhoods. Regional solutions are imperative because a number of important inner-city problems are caused by regional forces, and thus can only be adequately addressed at the regional level. A failure to address central city problems adversely affects the entire region. |
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| 2/15/06 Philadelphia Inquier: Not all Renewal Plans Equal | 2/14/06 Something to consider in Boston: "The city boasts of its efforts to ensure that subsidized units -- both public housing and privately owned units -- stay that way in perpetuity. This sounds like a noble goal but ignores the possibility that subsidized housing might block construction of a higher and better use, one which will generate jobs and property taxes that would benefit far more people." | ||
| 2/14/06 President Bush's American Competitiveness Initiative Camden needs it; the country needs it. |
2/14/06
Riverside revival rounding into shape
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| 2/13/06 Salvation
Army was Right to Pick Camden |
Camden Life“I live in a great place,” he says of Rutgers’ Camden community. “My neighborhood is comprised of about four blocks that are about a two-minute walk from campus. It's quiet for the most part, except on Sundays when you can hear the Eagles fans cheering loudly up and down the street |
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| 2/09/06 Impoverished Camden to get $57 million for community center | California: State Tax Break Benefits Companies, Not Workers | ||
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February
4, 2006 Bar
ready for change of scenery Rain pours through the roof now, and the rotted wood floor, strewn with empty vodka bottles and newspapers, is soft underfoot. |
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| Feb. 2, 2006 Frustrated Camden official quits in frustration |
January
30, 2006
Just an idea: Camden Architectural Competition |
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Camden
After the Fall 1/29/06 |
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| January 29, 2006 H1b1 Visa Holders Needed to Revive Camden |
1/25/06 Should Cramer Hill Consider Seceding From Camden ? | ||
| 1/23 The hour of reckoning for Camden's redevelopment efforts | 1/24/06 Cramer Hill plan tossed | ||
| January
23, 2006 The hour of reckoning for Camden's redevelopment efforts has arrived. |
January,
23, 2006 Blog! Camden Land and Dream's Politically Incorrect? Take On Urbanist's, Urban Renewal |
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| January 1, 2006 Philadelphia Center City Renaissance | 12-16-05 A visitor to Camden comments |
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| 12-05-05 The thrust of local government in some cities has been social engineering and the politics of victimology, rather than excellence in service delivery for taxpaying property owners. | |||
| NEWS UPDATE
11/25/05
Spokesman: River Line ridership is up 24
percent from year
ago
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| Cam | Next
up: Rosedale's renewal The planning board backed a $100 million plan despite some objections. |
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| "Great men come to the aid of those who act boldly." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Non Profit Organization Management | ||
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Exploring
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| Nov2, 2005 House Bill
H.R.4128 Passes Lawsuit Challenging Eminent Domain Abuse in New London, Connecticut. Direct quote from bill text: "The Federal Government or any authority of the Federal Government shall not exercise its power of eminent domain to be used for economic development." Read |
Nov. 8, 2005 Former Goldman Sachs Ceo Sen. Corzine wins governors race! Since Camden is the only city in NJ where the governor also serves as the city's de facto Mayor, what is his record regarding Camden...? | ||
Collingswood takes leap of faith in renovation and lands on its feet |
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| Camden Market Heats Up | Philadelphia / Camden, Southwest Airlines Is Trying the Front Door | ||
| Cramer
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$1.2 billion Cramer Hill project will transform one of the nation's poorest cities. | ||
| An Expensive Love Affair |
Property and Freedom: The
Constitution, the Courts, and Land-Use Regulations
$39.95 (hardcover), $24.95 (softcover) |
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| New Urbanists | Camden,
New Jersey
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Urbanist Dream Opportunity! |
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Camden crime rates fall. Declines posted in all categories | ||
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If Camden's chief operating officer Randy Primas disagrees with an action by the City Council, he can veto that action. The City Council can override his veto. The operating officer can appeal the veto override to Superior Court Judge Francis Orlando. Only the operating officer can make appeals to Orlando. |
The leading indicator of a metropolitan area's high-technology success is a large gay population, followed by a high concentration of "bohemians," foreign born residents and overall diversity - BROOKINGS INST. | ||
| In
the Nineteenth Century, one of America's greatest writers, Walt Whitman, helped
people learn to value poetry. Whitman created a new kind of poetry. People
across the nation are honoring Whitman with readings of his work |
Academy
of American Poets Selects Walt Whitman House as National Poetry Landmark |
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| Recommended Reading: CITIES:
Back From the Edge, New Life for Downtown Contains the essence of just about all you need to guide revitalization |
Camden Redevelopment Officials update State Senate on renewal progress Several developers also laid out their multibillion-dollar plans for Cramer Hill, Lanning Square and Bergen Square. | ||
| The city's financial house is in better shape than it has been in years.. | :Camden High School funded by Microsoft founder Bill Gates Philanthropy to open in September | ||
| What is gentrification? | U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie is cleaning up N.J.! The Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards The ethics committee was created in 1972 to judge complaints filed against lawmakers. Complaints are usually dismissed because the people who filed the complaints don't attend the committee's meeting to state their cases. If you file a complaint, you must attend. |
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| Rep. Rob Andrews represents Camden New Jersey in the United States Congress |
South Jersey Downtowns Make Comeback
But the biggest changes are due in Camden, where the downtown area is to receive a $1 billion makeover under a state-funded turnaround program. |
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| ERB BoardMeeting_Minutes | EZ / EC / RC ZONES: Camden Urban Renewal Community Map Legend | ||
| This could be Ferry Ave Station. | An Expensive Love Affair | ||
| An open letter to the people of Camden and City officials from Charles C. Euchner Executive Director Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston at the John F. Kennedy School of Government Harvard University | What we think Camden really needs is a torpedo factory. Look at his one... | ||
| NJ Smart Growth Support | Who will inherit Camden? | ||
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Rutgers-Camden to celebrate university's 239th birthday
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Camden drama mined in theatrical play | ||
| Nov. 12, 2005 In the early-morning hours of Sunday, August 22, 1971, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and Attorney General John Mitchell announced that FBI agents had arrested 20 antiwar activists in and near a draft board office in Camden, New Jersey. Now the movie... |
Camden's future depends to a great degree on the input
now of everyone who has something at stake in Camden's future. Below are
numerous contacts that will help people learn about Camden's
revitalization and play a role in it.
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| Nov. 7 2005 House Bill H.R.4128 Passes Overwhelmingly "The Federal Government or any authority of the Federal Government shall not exercise its power of eminent domain to be used for economic development." Read | Nov. 7, 2005 Camden drama mined in theatrical play | ||
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Nov 7, 2005 Acting
Governor to attend school groundbreaking today
in Camden
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Nov. 7, 2005 B.J. Schwartz "s Comprehensive Camden Information Website | ||
| Nov. 3, 2005 This should be Ferry Ave. | 
Prince Charlescharming and elegant ideas on Urban Planning. 10-31-2005 |
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| Jobs among new finds at reopened Camden thrift shop |
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| NEWS UPDATE 10-26-05 Courier Post
Uniformed workers to keep Camden
retail district free of litter
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| July
30, 2005 Questions, answers on Cramer Hill project |
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14, 2005 PATCO Train Schedule and info. NJ Transit schedule to Atlantic City and all of NJ. Includes connections to AMTRAK. |
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| S. Jerseyans pack trains to beat
crowd at Live 8 Concert Sunday, July 3, 2005
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Camden feels like home for WXPN's music festival
Sunday, July 24, 2005
By THOMAS J. WALSH Courier-Post Staff CAMDEN
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San Juan Bautista Parade steps off today in Camden
Sunday, June 26, 2005
50,000 expected to celebrate Latino pride; concert will follow
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Friday, July 1, 2005 A Web site is available to those who want to learn more about the skills needed for the career they choose. The Web site, www.njnextstop.org, includes information on health care, finance, construction, utilities, manufacturing, tourism, transportation and information technology.
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Court clarifies eminent domain
Friday, June 24, 2005
Impact on S.J. may be minimal By
RICHARD PEARSALL and EILEEN STILWELL
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Study Ties State Laws, Unwed
Child Births
June 19, 2005 2:52 AM EDT
NJ Has highest collection rate from unmarried fathers in nation. |
June 22, 2005 City planners must not always take the advice of citizens who have preconceived notions of how things should be |
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A milestone to remember in Camden
Thursday, June 16, 2005
Academy Charter High School holds first graduation
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Wednesday, June 15, 2005 Faison re-elected as Camden New Jersey mayor. About 8,830 residents cast ballots for mayor, about 24 percent of the city's 36,373 registered voters. Cruz-Perez said the low turnout may have hurt her chances. |
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Wednesday, June 8, 2005
Group will auction portrait of RFK at weekend festival By LUIS PUGA
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Friday, June 10, 2005 By TOM LOUNSBERRY and TERESA SICARD
ARCHAMBEAULT |
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Pennsauken project sounds
like a winner
Sunday, May 29, 2005
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Live 8 Concert Location 5 Minutes From Camden, New Jersey Hip-hop superstars Jay-Z, 50 Cent, Will Smith and P. Diddy, Jersey rockers Bon Jovi, "jam-band" stalwarts the Dave Matthews Band and R&B legend Stevie Wonder are among the artists who will perform on.... |
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Pennsauken signs renewal pact
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
$1.6B project includes 3,100 houses By ALAN GUENTHER |
Price is right: Ride for free Thursday, May 19, 2005
Transportation officials want folks to come to the Camden Waterfront so badly without their cars this summer that they've agreed to subsidize the trip.
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Thursday, May 19, 2005
By ROBERT BAXTERMore than 1.8 million visitors are expected Courier-Post Staff The cool spring is going to give way to a sizzling summer on Camden's Waterfront. More than 1.8 million visitors are expected to attend special events and festivals at venues along the Delaware River. "This summer is going to be the biggest yet," said Judi London, executive director of the Camden Waterfront Marketing Bureau. "It's going to be easier, faster and more affordable to get here."
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May 19,2005 While many students at Camden's Brimm Medical Arts High School had little else on their minds except getting ready for tonight's prom, at least some on Wednesday immersed themselves in the world of ecopolitics. They took part in a statewide project funded by a $70,000 Ford Foundation grant to assess the |
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| 5/14/05 Hip Hop has been one of the main contributing factors that helped curtail gang violence due to the fact |
5/17/05 Camden residents who own a home assessed at the average of $29,000 will continue to pay $740 in local purpose taxes. That does not include county or school taxes. The city holds $123 million in liens on 6,100 properties. Under the Municipal Rehabilitation and Economic Recovery Act, the city is not allowed to raise its tax rate until 2012. |
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| A Better Plan For Mickle Blvd.
= A 3rd
Street Promenade + Camden Waterfront Attractions + Urban Elegance + Art's Transformative Power + Existing Transportation |
5/11/05
Camden City Mayoral Race |
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| 5/11/05 NJ Gov. Codey signs order establishing ethics measures |
What Camden really needs is a torpedo factory. Look at his one... |
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| 5/11/05 A year ago Monday, Southwest Airlines began service to Philadelphia /Camden International Airport with daily nonstop flights to six cities. Today, the discounter offers 46 daily nonstop flights to 17 cities, making the Philly / Camden market its fastest growing since the Dallas-based carrier began 34 years ago |
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
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May 09, 2005 10:33 AM EDT
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| May 7, 2005 Courier-Post The Alliance for the Revitalization of Camden City is a new nonprofit organization committed to fostering greater civic engagement among Camden residents and regional stakeholders. |
The Language of inner city
art and culture. You can't understand until you deal with it. |
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| April 28, 2005
Camden High School funded by Microsoft founder's Bill Gates Philanthropy to open in September |
April 28, 2005 Courier Post |
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| April 27, 2005
The city's financial house is in better shape than it has been in years, |
Wednesday, April
27, 2005 Thursday's
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Sunday, March 27, 2005
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Delare River
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Wednesday, March 16, 2005
County's improvement authority to assume redevelopment duties
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| Sunday, March 6, 2005
Camden expertise drives Puerto Rican conference Attendees exchange knowledge, information on parades, festivals |
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| Cramer
Hill Housing Implementation Strategy (.pdf) Cramer Hill Redevelopment Plan (.pdf) Cramer Hill Redevelopment Plan Presentation (.ppt) List of Properties To Be Acquired (.pdf) List of Properties that May Be Acquired (.pdf) |
The Cramer Hill Redevelopment Plan uses tax block and lot numbers to identify properties as "To Be Acquired" or "May Be Acquired" The attached lists provide this information along with street addresses. However, it is the block and lot number that was used to determine designation. Please confirm your tax block and lot number by checking your quarterly tax bill. If in the attached lists you find a discrepency between address and block and lot, please contact John Fuentes at (856) 963-3489 for assistance. Also, please note that in the instances that there is a block and lot number given, but the address information is blank, further research may need to be done to determine if certain properties have been combined; in these instances the property is still considered on the acquisition list." |
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| " Planning should not be an
elitist process in which people "are told what's best for them,"
in his words; rather, it should be shaped by the people who will be living
with its results."-
Tom Knoche |
City Was a Blank CanvasArtists open studios in empty storefronts and add color to struggling Pittsfield, Mass. Now the mayor hopes for an economic renaissance.By Elizabeth Mehren |
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| Short Film "When
Empty,Return to Camden New Jersey"
To Be shot May, 2005 |
New Jersey is leading the
country in job creation! |
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| A planning board meeting on the redevelopment plans for Lanning Square, Bergen Square, and Cooper Plaza will be held at 6 p.m. on Nov. 30, at U.S. Wiggins Elementary School at 400 Mount Vernon St. |
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
`New Jersey Works for You' reflects agency cooperation
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Cities Seek to Prosper by Luring Creative People
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Developing
Workforce Housing Program November 30 – December 3, 2004
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| Posted on Wed, Sep. 01, 2004 Nonconformist philanthropist steps up again Frank Fulbrook, who has given more than $129,000 to groups, saved a church's after-school program. |
Apprentice
program helps turn lives around
Saturday, September 4, 2004
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| Wednesday,
July 21,
2004Planners discuss proposals with city residents
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READ THE MINUTES FROM PAST ERB MEETINGS ERB
Upcoming Meetings The above meetings are scheduled for the fourth Tuesday of each month. Meetings will be held at 10:00 a.m. at a Camden location. The locations that have not yet been determined will be announced, and all meetings will be publicly noticed prior to the date of the meeting. |
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July 10, 2004 VIDEO: CAMDEN'S FUTURE |
July 10, 2004 Update on Pennsauken's Camden adjacent $1 billion |
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$
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| May 30, 2004 Camden gets upscale eatery |
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| May 4, 2004
Last month, 14 students from Creative Arts High School generated some positive headlines by winning two first-place awards in an international choir competition. Held in Verona, Italy, ... |
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May 1, 2004
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May 3 Cooper Grant, which is located in the historic district of North Front Street between Linden and Penn Streets, will provide 28 single-family homes. Sales prices will range from $93,000 to $130,000. “We are pleased to make this contribution toward the ongoing revitalization of Camden, and look forward to seeing new vitality come to the community,” HMFA Executive Director Marge DellaVecchia said. MORE....
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McGreevey to mayors: Halt rise in tax rates.TRENTON - Gov. McGreevey defended his plan to raise income taxes on the wealthy and impose cost controls on towns and schools yesterday, telling a gathering of mayors that New Jersey's "status quo of rising property taxes isn't working and can't go on." |
May. 03, 2004 Phialdelphia Inquirer Editorial | Smart Growth Awards ...Likewise, the Victor building in Camden shows a developer willing to take a risk on a city others fled. Dranoff Properties capitalized on $400 million in adjacent public investment in the waterfront and the incomparable view of Philadelphia to transform the historic RCA "Nipper" building into luxury loft apartments. The $60 million Victor renovation is the largest private investment in market-rate housing in Camden in 40 years. Elsewhere in Camden County, the County Division of Planning is reenvisioning its train stations. When the PATCO High-Speed Line was built in 1969, little thought was given to fitting stations into their communities. In most cases, parking lots cut stations off from central business districts. Camden County wants to change that, and the Delaware River Port Authority, which runs PATCO, is an eager partner. Vast parking lots would become mixed-use villages with offices, business and even apartments around a parking garage. |
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Apr. 28, 2004 $5.2
million for Camden projectsA learning center and
waterfront parking, sewers and new sidewalks will get a boost from state
funds.
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Monday, May 03, 2004 This year, the ferry will start at 9:40 a.m. from Camden and 10 a.m. from Philly's Penn's Landing, with service every 40 minutes from each pier. The last ferries will run from Camden at 5 p.m. and Penn's Landing at 5:20 p.m. Round-trip fares will remain the same as last year, $6 for adults and $5 for senior citizens and children. Package tickets are available for ferry access and waterfront attractions.
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Apr. 28, 2004 Injecting
new life into Camden
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PUBLIC NOTICE On Tuesday, April 27, 2004, 5:30 p.m. the City of Camden, Department of Finance, BUREAU OF GRANTS MANAGEMENT will hold a Public Meeting to present the FY 2004 – 2005 final draft of the Consolidated Action Plan for public review. City of Camden Annual Consolidated Plan Action Plan Funding List 7/1/04 – 6/30/05 |
Posted
April
22, 2004 Economic
Recovery Board: Read
the minutes from public hearings held the fourth Tuesday of every month. Next
Meeting: Tues. April 27 10:00 a.m
Location:Camden
County Council on Economic Opportunity 538 Broadway Camden, NJ |
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| Posted November 15, 2003 Philadelphia developer outlined a $5 million-plus plan to create a restaurant-office complex at the building that sits on a block that had been eyed for expansion by Rowan University of Glassboro. | January
19, 2004 Plan for downtown Camden offers a billion-dollar vision Inquirer Staff Writer |
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