New Jersey Future Announces Winners of 2019 Smart Growth Awards

New Jersey Future Announces Winners of 2019 Smart Growth Awards

 

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.

 

 

2019 Smart Growth Award Winners

 

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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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