The demographic story of the 2010s in New Jersey was the return of population growth to the state’s walkable, mixed-use centers—cities, towns, and older suburbs with traditional downtowns. Driven in particular by the Millennial generation’s desire for live-work-shop-play environments, many of the state’s older centers experienced their biggest population increases since before the 1950s.
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Census 2020: New Jersey’s Older and Increasingly Diverse Centers Are Now Leading The State’s Population Growth
Monday, September 13th, 2021Does the Retail Apocalypse Mean the End of Downtowns?
Monday, February 17th, 2020New Jersey Future and JGSC Group presented Does the Retail Apocalypse Mean the End of Downtowns? at the annual American Planning Association–New Jersey conference held on January 23rd in New Brunswick. The answer to that apocalyptic question was a resounding “maybe”.
