2024 Smart Growth Awards
Announcing the winners of the
2024 Smart Growth Awards!
New Jersey Future’s Smart Growth Awards honor projects, plans, and policies across the state that demonstrate smart growth principles in action. The awards shine a spotlight on individuals, businesses, and organizations with the vision to encourage smart growth values and designs.
The 2024 showcase, hosted on October 22 at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center, brought us together to celebrate six incredible winning projects and honor one singular leader in recognition of their life of service to the betterment of New Jersey, Ingrid Reed, with a posthumous Leadership Award. We also announced the Ingrid Reed For our Future Fund, that will support education and training for future Smart Growth leaders.
Thank you to all who joined us for the celebration and supported the event. Learn more about this year’s winning projects and their partner teams below through their profiles and showcase videos! Your project could be the next winner, subscribe to our newsletter for updates on the 2025 Call for Nominations.
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2024 Smart Growth Award Winners
INGRID REED
Leadership Award Honoree
Founding member of New Jersey Future and past board of trustees chair, Reed was a public policy professional who built and leveraged her network and knowledge to advance civic life in New Jersey as a supporter of forward-thinking, sustainability-based planning, journalism, arts, and the City of Trenton.
20 LITTLETON AVENUE
Mixed-use, mixed income housing development in partnership with local hospital featuring ground floor healthcare services and 78 units of affordable housing, including for individuals experiencing homelessness, in Newark’s Fairmount neighborhood.
Primary Partners: C+C Apartment Management | City of Newark | L+M Development Partners |
New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency | University Hospital
HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF HOBOKEN REDEVELOPMENT PLAN
Mixed-use Redevelopment Plan to replace over 1,300 existing public housing units, establish new open space, and upgrade infrastructure to reduce flood hazard and increase accessibility while extending the street grid to better integrate Housing Authority properties into the City of Hoboken.
Primary Partners: Arup | City of Hoboken | Heyer, Gruel & Associates |
Housing Authority of the City of Hoboken | WRT
MUSCONETCONG ISLAND PARK
Demolition of an abandoned two-story concrete block laboratory and conversion of its staircase and footprint into an accessible riparian park space that enables fishing, wading, paddling and
hiking in Bethlehem Township.
Primary Partners: Harrington Construction | Musconetcong Watershed Association |
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation | Princeton Hydro | Township of Bethlehem
PARKVIEW AP
Redevelopment of longtime vacant lot in Asbury Park’s Westside providing twenty new housing units with a range of affordability options by combining homeownership with accessory dwelling units for rent. Integral part of the neighborhood revitalization plan, including an early childhood center.
Primary Partners: County of Monmouth | Benjamin Harvey Company, Inc. | Interfaith Neighbors, Inc. | New Jersey Natural Gas | Shore Point Architecture
TERHUNE HARRISON MIXED USE VILLAGE
Transformational redevelopment knitting together several residential and commercial sites to form a revitalized suburban mixed-use village with affordable housing in Princeton.
Primary Partners: AvalonBay Communities | The Alice Princeton | LRK | Municipality of Princeton |
Phillips Preiss Grygiel Leheny Hughes
THE NELL AT DUNELLEN STATION
Transit adjacent conversion of a brownfield industrial site into a major mixed-use housing and retail development that builds pedestrian-friendly connections to neighborhood
amenities and Dunellen’s downtown.
Primary Partners: Borough of Dunellen | Dynamic Engineering Consultants PC |
Menlo Engineering Associates, Inc. | Prism Capital Partners | Spiezle Architectural Group
Thank You to the 2024 Smart Growth Awards Sponsors
Title Sponsor
Community Builders
Neighborhood Allies
Strategic Partners
Supporters
Scholarships
Contributor
Jury
Since 2002, New Jersey Future has honored more than 135 projects with Smart Growth Awards. Winners are selected from a statewide public nomination process by an independent jury. Judging the 2024 Smart Growth Awards were:
- Erik Estrada, Community Manager, Community Foundation of South Jersey
- Katie Feery, Director, Strategic Initiatives & Sustainability, New Jersey Resources
- Zenobia Fields, Director, Dept. of Economic Development, City of Plainfield
- Keenan Hughes, VP, Planning and Development, SJP Properties
- Teri Jover, Borough Administrator, Borough of Highland Park
- Dan Kennedy, CEO, NAIOP NJ
- Dominique Lueckenhoff, Executive VP, EHS, Sustainability, Envirotech, Hugo Neu Corporation
- Tenisha Malcolm-Wint, Public Policy & Strategic Planning Consultant and Founder, Outdoors on Purpose
- Byron Nicholas, Chief, Planning Division, Hudson County
- Alle Ries, VP & NJ CRA Officer, M&T Bank
- Brittany Spanos, Exec. Director, Community Outreach & Diversity Officer, Saint Peter’s Healthcare System
