TOD News Briefs

NJTOD news briefs...Historic Preservation Tax Credit, middle-income housing, NJEDA expands downtown incentive program, the year ahead for Collingswood, Montclair residents express concerns about development. Also Amazon in VA, Transbay in SF, housing in OR, and a new TOD website for Suffolk County, LI.

In this week's NJ TOD news... NJ TRANSIT settles Amtrak payments with funds to be reinvested in Northeast Corridor improvements, Raritan Valley mayors seek one-seat rides, and Union Township approves variances. Beyond the state... San Diego launches "Sim City" Planning Tool, Rhode Island students estimate capacity for TOD, and Amazon cancels its Big Apple plans.

This week's NJ TOD news: Performing Arts Center to open near Avenel Station, Raritan plans station area upgrades, Queen Latifah-backed project will have summer groundbreaking, and a Weehawken project now leasing. Also news from Chicago, Fullerton CA, Indianapolis, Malden MA, a TOD critique of the Green New Deal, a housing plan for Exeter, UK, and a TO Affordable Housing Study in Vancouver, BC.

Public art and startup coworking space in Camden and Newark Penn Station leasing revenues. A Green New Deal, affordable housing in Seattle, the effect of the federal shutdown on transit, measuring growth near transit in DC metro area, and proposed shuttles to T stops on the Newton-Needham Line. Car-free downtown Oslo and the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor.

All the TOD news fit to share... NJ stories from Jersey City, Newark, and Plainfield, and other news from Kirkland WA, Los Angeles, Miami-Dade, North Carolina, Utah, Montreal and Bangkok.

In this week's NJ TOD news... a designer selected for Jersey City's Bayfront, development plans for Plainfield, new development in Somerville, and proposed tax incentives. Also news from Atlanta, Baltimore, Cleveland, San Diego, San Jose, and Kempas, Malaysia.