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Four Communities Share Key Lessons Learned from Creative Placemaking on Vacant Properties
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Center for Community Progress, with Metris Arts Consulting, shows how creative placemaking can be used as a critical tool to support equitable revitalization...
Center for Community Progress, with Metris Arts Consulting, shows how creative placemaking can be used as a critical tool to support equitable revitalization...
New & Newsworthy: September 2018
NJTOD news from Hoboken, Jersey City, Metuchen, Montclair, Newark, New Brunswick, Somerville, and Woodbridge, as well as from across the country and from Sweden—affordable housing, parking, gentrification, changing retail, and more...
School-Age Children in Rental Units in New Jersey: Results from a Survey of Developers and Property Managers
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A study completed in July 2018 by the Rutgers Center for Real Estate estimates the number of school-age children associated with recent constructed New Jersey market-rate and affordable rental units...
A study completed in July 2018 by the Rutgers Center for Real Estate estimates the number of school-age children associated with recent constructed New Jersey market-rate and affordable rental units...
New & Noteworthy: August 2018
Millennials rediscover the suburbs, Asbury Park’s revival, NJ infrastructure needs, and projects in East Brunswick and on the former Fort Monmouth. Also affordable housing, parking, accessory dwelling units, and news from around the nation...
Creating Public Spaces for Transit-Oriented Communities
This is Part 2 of our series on how public spaces contribute to transit-oriented community life. Here we will discuss...
Public Spaces Add Vitality to Transit-Oriented Communities
Part 1 in our series on how public spaces contribute to transit-oriented community life where we discuss four ways that public spaces can make our lives better...
Planning & Engagement Advance Somerville’s Goals
Years of planning and public engagement have contributed to Somerville’s resurgence—a pedestrian street, new businesses, and new housing all bring a new vibrancy to its downtown...
New & Noteworthy: July 2018
News on millennials relocating to the suburbs, the number of school-children in NJ rental housing, projects in Montclair, Linden, and Hoboken. Also visions for clean transport in the Northeast, new TOD in Toronto, increasing density at LA stations, and Boston efforts to help commuters...
New and Newsworthy: June 2018
NJ News from Asbury Park, Orange, and West Windsor. Other stories on parking, gentrification, fair housing, and from around the nation and beyond...
Empty Spaces: Real Parking Needs at Five TODs
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More evidence that TODs generate fewer vehicle trips and utilize less parking than ITE guidelines estimate...
More evidence that TODs generate fewer vehicle trips and utilize less parking than ITE guidelines estimate...
Four New Jersey Municipalities Receive Transit Village Grants
Governor Murphy’s administration recently announced awards to four Transit Village grant recipients...
New and Newsworthy: May 2018
NJTOD news from Cherry Hill, Dunellen, Hackensack, Linden, Pleasantville, Roselle Park, Somerville, and West Windsor. National news on how transit affects property values, equitable TOD, and FTA grants...