2024 Smart Growth Award Winners

Read about the 2024 Smart Growth Award winners, representing the best in smart growth and sustainable development projects around the state. Find links to their full profiles below.

• 20 Littleton Avenue

  The 20 Littleton Avenue project, situated in Newark’s Fairmount neighborhood, is a model for collaboration between healthcare institutions and housing developers to address critical social needs.

• Housing Authority of the City of Hoboken Redevelopment Plan

  Hoboken City has undergone a major transformation this century. With their newly adopted Housing Authority Redevelopment Plan, the city is addressing one of its most critical assets: affordable, public housing.

• Musconetcong Island Park

  Musconetcong Island Park is a shining example of how well-planned projects can foster significant revitalization and deepen the connection between people and their natural environment.

• Parkview AP

  Parkview AP stands as a landmark development in the revitalization of Asbury Park's Westside neighborhood, a community that has faced decades of disinvestment and economic challenges since it underwent civil unrest in 1970.

• Terhune Harrison Mixed Use Village

  Terhune Harrison Mixed Use Village in Princeton is a model for how strategic redevelopment can knit together and revitalize a community by building on existing assets, planning comprehensively, and engaging with residents to shape a project that meets local needs.

• The Nell At Dunellen Station

  Nell at Dunellen Station is an exciting new transit-adjacent development that is transforming Dunellen, a traditional working-class town, by introducing a vibrant commercial corridor and adding much-needed housing units in a mixed-use setting.

• Ingrid Reed

  New Jersey Future is honoring Ingrid Reed as the recipient of New Jersey Future's 2024 Leadership Award. Reed, who passed away in July 2024, leaves a profound legacy as a tireless advocate for the City of Trenton, regional planning, and the future of New Jersey.