Community Schools With school doors set to open, America’s school supply retailers expect to pass the $6 billion mark in sales for this year. State leaders most likely will spend twice that – some $12 billion – on building and […]
Development and Redevelopment
Grade-A Idea Gets A Pass From New Jersey
Friday, August 31st, 2001No Borrowing, Just New Priorities, Could Fund Redevelopment
Friday, August 17th, 2001Billion-Dollar Priorities The State announced August 9 that it will spend $1 billion to eliminate tolls on the Garden State Parkway in the next 10 years. The State will spend another $1.5 billion next year in annual payments on the […]
Increasing Mom’s Choice of Where To Live
Friday, May 11th, 2001Mothers In New Jersey Hallmark alone offers a choice of 2,375 different Mother Day card designs this year. Yet whether they are seniors or new to motherhood, New Jersey’s mothers (and their families) face a shrinking choice of where to […]
NJ Needs Stable Source of Funding for Redevelopment
Monday, April 30th, 2001Inadequate funding for public improvements to induce redevelopment is a major reason why many projects that would rejuvenate developed areas cannot go forward.
Sprawl Gets NJ Coming – and Going – via Property Tax
Friday, March 30th, 2001Many communities on the front lines of sprawl saw their property taxes jump by over 40% to cover the costs of providing new roads, sewers, schools and services.
Development Style Can Reduce Road Costs
Tuesday, February 13th, 2001Road Costs and New Development Laying a local, two-lane road typically costs $1 million a mile. The cost per resident can be reduced dramatically if plans for new roads are coordinated with plans for more compact development – even when […]
If You Zone For It, They Will Come
Thursday, January 25th, 2001The Sarnoff Corporation in West Windsor this month announced plans to transform its rolling 335-acre campus into a 12-building office park.
Property Taxes Drive Urban Distress and Sprawl
Wednesday, January 10th, 2001New Jerseyans shoulder the nation’s highest residential property taxes, claiming about 10 percent of annual median household income.
Where Do We Go From Here?
Friday, December 22nd, 200050 Years Ago in New Jersey In 1950, we munched Sugar Pops and Ball-O-Fire gumballs for the first time. Most of us (58 percent) lived in places with urban or small town densities where you could walk to stores, movies […]
NJ’s Dirty Secret – Not Enough Housing Affordable To NJ’s Workers
Friday, December 8th, 2000Spillover Sprawl The newest frontier of New Jersey suburbanization is actually in northeastern Pennsylvania. The population of Monroe County, Pa. grew by 34 percent in the past decade; Pike County, Pa. grew by a whopping 48 percent. New Jersey’s fastest […]