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Making the Most of What You’ve Got: Adaptive Reuse and TOD

Understanding the challenges and opportunities offered by adaptive reuse is helpful to communities looking to promote transit-friendly development...

New and Newsworthy: March-April 2016

The latest from Hackensack, Montclair, Newark, Orange, Rutherford, Somerville, Union, and Westfield. Plus news on embracing density in the suburbs, first floor retail, workforce housing, and the Schuylkill Yards project in Philadelphia...

New and Newsworthy: January-February 2016

News on NJ Transit Villages, Jersey City redevelopment, reductions in driving, density as a tool to fight climate change & inequality, affordable housing in TOD, problems with too much parking, and the economic impacts of BRT...

What We Are Reading, Watching & Listening To: November-December 2015

NJ news from Bloomfield, East Orange, Harrison, Newark, South Amboy, Westfield, and Wesmont Station in Wood-Ridge as well as equitable TOD and TOD apps...

What We Are Reading: September-October 2015

The latest news on commuters to Panasonic in Newark, development in Bayonne, Camden, Hackensack, Jersey City, Metuchen, and Somerville as well as bus TOD in Pittsburgh, FTA planning projects, and much more...

Work Begins on Metuchen’s Pearl Street Redevelopment

When completed, years of planning will result in new housing, retail, parking and a public piazza in Metuchen's center...

Irvington Named 30th NJ Transit Village

Bus service and the Irvington Bus Terminal are at the core of NJ's 30th Transit Village, Irvington Township...

Park Ridge Named 29th NJ Transit Village

Named the state's 29th Transit Village, the Borough of Park Ridge is focusing on pedestrian improvements and zoning changes to achieve its TOD goals...

What We Are Reading: July-August 2015

Two new Transit Villages, updates on the Gateway Tunnel, Haddon Township, Rutherford, Somerville, and Woodbridge, as well as the value of mixed-use development and walkable downtowns...

What We Are Reading: May-June 2015

News briefs on redevelopment in Jersey City, Newark, and Somerville as well as the reuse of suburban office parks, millennial settlement patterns, the decline of home ownership, reduced parking requirements in Minneapolis, and New Balance buying its own station in Boston...

Harrison Follows Its Vision Towards Redevelopment

Good planning and transit improvements are helping Harrison reach its redevelopment and TOD goals...

What We Are Reading: March-April 2015

News from Bound Brook, Cranford, the Hudson waterfront, Montclair, and Woodbridge, as well as the relationship between housing and transportation costs...