New Jersey Future’s fifth-annual Redevelopment Forum, rescheduled and held on March 19, attracted close to 500 people who attended 22 workshops on a wide variety of topics.
2010 Redevelopment Forum. Source: NJ Future
The conference attendee surveys from the Redevelopment Forum offered some revealing insights to what conference-goers feel are the primary obstacles to redevelopment in New […]
Smart Growth
“Unpredictability” Tops List of Impediments to Redevelopment According to Forum Attendees
Monday, April 19th, 2010New Jersey Future Announces Smart Growth Award Winners for 2010
Friday, April 16th, 2010Special Leadership Award will honor W. Cary Edwards
A diverse group of innovative development and redevelopment projects located in cities, towns and townships across New Jersey will be honored with 2010 Smart Growth Awards from New Jersey Future.
Maxwell Place, Hoboken, NJ
Six projects and 20 honorees will receive Smart Growth Awards for initiatives ranging from an […]
EPA Study Finds Redevelopment Taking Hold Nationwide, What About NJ?
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010Newark Broad St. Station and Light Rail. Source: Transit Friendly Development Newsletter Vol. 4 Num. 2
A recent study by the Environmental Protection Agency finds that redevelopment is becoming the dominant paradigm for residential growth in urban areas. The study, titled Residential Construction Trends in America’s Metropolitan Regions, looks at 19 years of building permit data, […]
Demographic Changes May Mean Big Redevelopment Opportunities
Thursday, March 25th, 2010Smaller families and single homebuyers will seek smaller, less expensive homes near jobs and transportation.
Market Forces Portend Shift From Sprawl to Redevelopment
Thursday, February 18th, 2010The percent of New Jersey households containing children under age 18 has been falling steadily, to the point that two-thirds of New Jersey households are now child-free.
With Release of Impact Assessment, State Plan Poised for Revision, Re-adoption
Friday, January 29th, 2010The State Planning Act requires the State Planning Commission to revise and re-adopt the State Development and Redevelopment Plan every three years.
2010 Redevelopment Forum Sponsorships
Thursday, January 28th, 2010[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxUNHKuvTZc]There are several great sponsorship opportunities left for the 2010 Redevelopment Forum next month. Registrations have been flowing in and we are in the process of finalizing our program book. If you would like to be included, please let us know your commitment by the close of business this Friday, January 29.
NJ Cities Dominate the Car-Free List – But for the Right Reasons?
Thursday, January 21st, 2010Light Rail in Newark. Source: FTA
Streetsblog Capitol Hill takes a look at how to encourage less car ownership — and links to a Wikipedia page listing the cities with the greatest percentages of zero-car households. All of New Jersey’s cities of more than 100,000 population make the list: Newark and Jersey City appear in the […]
Challenges Abound, Opportunity Knocks as Christie Prepares to Take Office
Thursday, January 14th, 2010Charting New Jersey on a path toward sustained economic growth will require many things, not the least of which is a resurrected state planning process.
Should we be happy or sad about fewer people on the road?
Monday, January 11th, 2010photo by author
A couple of news items over the last few days have combined to serve as a good reminder that owning and driving a car is a means to an end, not an end in itself. Driving (at least non-recreational travel) is what economists call a “derived good” – something people consume not because […]
