New Jersey Future Announces Winners of 2019 Smart Growth Awards |
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TRENTON, March 26 — New Jersey Future today announced the seven project winners of its 2019 Smart Growth Awards. The winners include four adaptive-reuse projects, a new youth center, a multi-municipal walking and cycling trail, and a master plan update that focuses on accommodating future growth and sustainability.
“If there’s one theme running through all these winners, it’s connectivity,” said Andrew Hendry, the president and chief executive officer of the New Jersey Utilities Association and a New Jersey Future trustee, who chaired the selection committee. “These projects connect housing to jobs, jobs to transit, youth to opportunity, residents to amenities, and a city to its future. While all the entries were worthy of consideration, these winners will truly be transformational well beyond their own footprints. Their awards are well deserved.”
Winners will be honored at a celebration on Wednesday, June 5, at the Newark Museum. |
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2019 Smart Growth Award Winners |
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Walker House, Newark
A landmarked Art Deco office building repurposed to bring new mixed-income housing to the heart of downtown
Primary Partners: L+M Development Partners; Prudential, Inc.; Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group; Citi Community Capital |
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Mercer County Community College, Trenton
Reactivation of a group of long-dormant buildings in an overlooked part of the city, with amenities to serve both students and residents
Primary Partners: Clarke Caton Hintz; Mercer County Community College; City of Trenton; Mercer County |
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Second Street Youth Center, Plainfield
The first new facility of its kind in more than a decade, constructed on formerly blighted land to provide services and support to families in a historically underserved neighborhood
Primary Partners: J.G. Petrucci Co.; TD+Partners; City of Plainfield; Second Street Youth Center |
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Lawrence-Hopewell Trail
A 22-mile walking and cycling trail connecting a variety of destinations, the result of a broad volunteer collaboration among community leaders, area employers, and local residents
Primary Partners: Mercer County; Township of Lawrence; Township of Hopewell; Bristol Myers Squibb; Lawrence-Hopewell Trail |
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People’s Bank Building, Passaic
Repurposing of a vacant Art Deco building into an office and retail anchor to catalyze job creation in a central location in a revitalizing urban downtown
Primary Partners: New Jersey Community Capital; The Hanini Group LLC; City of Passaic |
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Hoboken Master Plan Re-examination Report and Land Use Element
The culmination of a year-long process to update the city’s guiding land-use documents to support growth, preservation and resilience initiatives over the next decade
Primary Partners: City of Hoboken Department of Community Development; City of Hoboken Planning Board; BFJ Planning |
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Ironside Newark
Transformation of a long-vacant warehouse into a 21st-century office and retail destination with direct connections to transit, open space and nearby attractions
Primary Partners: Edison Properties, LLC; City of Newark; Newark Community Economic Development Corporation; Perkins Eastman |
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About New Jersey Future
Founded in 1987, New Jersey Future is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that promotes sensible growth, redevelopment and infrastructure investments to foster vibrant cities and towns, protect natural lands and waterways, enhance transportation choices, provide access to safe, affordable and aging-friendly neighborhoods and fuel a strong economy. The organization does this through original research, innovative policy development, coalition-building, advocacy, and hands-on strategic assistance.
About the Smart Growth Awards
Since 2002, New Jersey Future has honored smart planning and development in New Jersey through the Smart Growth Awards. To date more than 100 plans and projects in every county and statewide have been honored. List and categorized map of winners. |
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