Working for Smart Growth:
More Livable Places and Open Spaces
No state has lost more jobs in the high-tech industry in the past decade than New Jersey, according to an analysis of New Jersey’s competitive position by the Brookings Institution, in partnership with New Jersey Future.
New Jersey lost nearly 30,000 (28,083) high-tech jobs between 1995 and 2004. California, in contrast, gained nearly 50,000 such […]
Census figures show New Jerseyans continue to leave the Garden State in significantly higher numbers than new residents are arriving from other states.
Those moving out between 1990 and 1999 exceeded those moving in from other states by 378,495 – more than the entire population of Mercer County (350,761), or Newark, the state’s largest city (273,546).
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Wachovia Bank and Matrix Development Group this week celebrated the official opening of Wachovia’s regional headquarters in a new, five-story office building in the heart of downtown Trenton.
The $15.7 million project marks the first significant private investment in commercial office development in the city in more than a decade.
Wachovia cited its desire to follow its […]
Governor Jon Corzine’s economic development team is seeking input into a five-year strategic business plan, intended to improve the state’s business climate and encourage economic growth.
A first draft of the plan is expected at the end of March.
New Jersey already has a long-term business plan designed to guide growth and investment: the State Development and […]
New Jersey’s most pressing financial problem is transportation funding
New Jersey is growing naturally at almost exactly the same pace as its residents are moving out.
A look back at some of the facts that shaped our policy work in 2005 and continue to impact New Jersey’s future and its prosperity.
Some have predicted that aging Baby Boomers will help spell the end of sprawling development, as older Americans turn away from large-lot, McMansion-style housing and seek the housing and lifestyles available in urban and older suburban settings with their multi-family housing options, access to public transit and walkable downtowns.
Employment locations in New Jersey have become much more decentralized.
State leaders can help by changing the policies that make it easier and cheaper to develop our greenfields than to rebuild our older suburbs and cities.
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