2003 Smart Growth Award Winners
Read about great smart growth and sustainable development projects around the state and winners in the Smart Growth Awards.
- Smart Growth Leadership Award: Merck & Co., Inc.
For 100 years of community investment and redevelopment.
- Oceanfront Asbury
The adopted redevelopment plan reinforces the city's transit connections, adds diversity to the available housing options, and provides a much-needed mix of commercial, residential, retail and entertainment uses within walking distance of one another.
- Transfer of Development Rights Program
Chesterfield is poised to become the state's first municipality outside of the Pinelands to add significantly to its already impressive farmland preserve, using a Transfer-of-Development-Rights program.
- Lower George Street Redevelopment Strategy
The City of New Brunswick and its partners have been creative in leveraging available public and private resources in order to spark the revitalization of the lower George Street neighborhood.
- New Jersey Performing Arts Center
F or lasting positive impact on downtown Newark through its high-quality urban design.
- Urban League of Hudson County Headquarters Building
The Urban League of Hudson County refers to its new, state-of-the-art headquarters as "Project Reclaim" because it is much more than a building; it represents the social and economic rebirth of the once-thriving Martin Luther King Drive neighborhood in Jersey City.
