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TOD Comes to Baltimore, Maryland

The City of Baltimore has taken a bold step toward making transit-oriented development a reality near its existing and future transit stations...

Somerville Landfill Project Receives Boost

In October, Somerville’s development plans for its former landfill received a boost when it was designated as a Brownfield Development Area...

Proposed Federal TOD Grants & Interagency “Sustainable Communities” Initiative

The Senate Banking Committee introduced legislation in August that, if passed, would spur better land use practices...

Moving Cooler: An Analysis of Transportation Strategies for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Moving Cooler asserts that the US must encourage compact development, reduce driving and expand mass transit use in order to reduce GHG emissions...

Job Sprawl Revisited: The Changing Geography of Metropolitan Employment

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A new analysis by the Brookings Institution sheds light on the decentralization of employment that took place in nearly all of the country’s 98 largest metropolitan areas between 1998 and 2006...

NJDOT Designates City of Orange as New Transit Village

The NJ Department of Transportation has designated Orange and the area around its NJ TRANSIT Orange Station as the state’s 20th Transit Village...

Morristown’s Transit Village: Full Steam Ahead

In spite of the bleak economy, Morristown’s new transit village is coming alive...

Historic Rutherford Station Undergoes Restoration

The Rutherford Station is undergoing a two-year restoration of the historic station’s original exterior and improvements to its interior...

New Buildings Rise … and to Rise in New Brunswick

New Brunswick has been redeveloping its rail station area in recent years by strengthening educational, cultural, health care and residential uses...

New Mixed-Use Project to Rise in Metuchen

Work has finally begun on the redevelopment of a former supermarket site in Metuchen...

First Residences Completed at The Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor

The first redevelopment project at The Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor has been completed at the 430-acre, two-mile long stretch of land...

New Montclair TOD in the Home Stretch

Construction of the highly anticipated Montclair Residences at the NJ TRANSIT Bay Street Station in Montclair is near completion...