Friday, September 1st, 2000
Merrill Lynch and Hopewell Township
The first phase of a new Merrill Lynch office complex is scheduled to open in October in rural Hopewell Township. The 1-million square feet of new buildings is equivalent in size to 10 Home Depot stores.
The newly opened campus will draw 3,500 employees a day, or nearly a quarter […]
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Friday, August 18th, 2000
NJ Population Growth
New Jersey’s population growth in the past decade would have been negligible without immigration from other countries.
The number of residents leaving New Jersey for other states between 1990 and 1999 exceeded the number moving in from other states by 380,000.
This population loss was barely offset by natural population increase (births minus […]
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Monday, July 10th, 2000
Zoning and Communities
New Jersey’s most densely populated community is Union City, with 45,000 people per square mile — a higher density than Brooklyn or Queens.
Our least densely populated community is Walpack Township, near the Delaware Water Gap, with only 2.9 people per square mile.
Nearly every inch of New Jersey — with the exception […]
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Monday, June 19th, 2000
New Jersey Development
79 percent of New Jersey voters say we should stop building so many shopping centers. Some 56 percent feel there’s too much development of all kinds.
84 percent agree that “We are fast running out of land in New Jersey, and it’s time to save the land that’s left for open space.”
(Results of […]
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Monday, May 15th, 2000
Seven in 10 New Jerseyans feel the Jersey Shore is at risk from development. Nearly two-thirds would prefer to have shore development managed by a state plan.
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