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In November of 2017, Francisco "Frank" Moran was elected as the 48th Mayor of Camden. Prior to this, one of Moran's roles was as the Director of Camden County Parks Department where he was in charge of overseeing several park projects expanding the Camden County Park System, including the Cooper River Park, as well as bringing back public ice skating rinks to the parks in Camden County.[1]
Moran has helped in bringing several companies to Camden, some of these companies being Subaru of America, Lockheed Martin, Philadelphia 76ers, Holtec International, American Water, Liberty Property Trust, as well as EMR.[2]
Moran has also assisted with the public schools of Camden by supplying them with new resources, such as new technology for the classrooms, as well has new facilities.[3]
Celebrity chef from the Philadelphia area, Micheal Schulson plans to open 2 restaurants on the Camden Waterfront, with the help of his company The Schulson Collective, by the fall of 2019.[4]The restaurants will be located in the future company headquarters for Conner Strong & Buckelew, NFI, and The Michaels Organization, which is now currently under construction. George E. Nocross 3d, the chairman of Connor Strong & Buckelew, as well for the Cooper University Hospital, is assisting Schulson in the creation of these 2 restaurants, and was even the one who announced the news of the plans to open the restaurants.[5]
In September of 2015, the Philadelphia-based real estate investment trust, Liberty Property Trust, announced its plans for a $1 billion project to revitalize Camden's Waterfront. This project plans to not only improve the infrastructure currently in place, but also to construct new buildings altogether, such as the new headquarters for American Water, which will be a five-story, 222,376-square-foot office building.[6] American Water's new headquarters on the Camden Waterfront was opened in December of 2018.[7]
Other construction projects in the Liberty Property Trust $1 billion project include a Hilton Garden Inn to be opened on the Camden Waterfront in 2020, which will contain 180 rooms, a restaurant, and space for conferences to be held. The Camden Tower, an 18-story, 394,164-square foot office building which will be the headquarters for the New Jersey-based companies Conner Strong & Buckelew, NFI and The Michaels Organization, which is planned to finish construction in spring of 2019. Also included are apartments on 11 Cooper Street, which will be housing 156 units as well as a retail space on the ground level. The construction of these apartments is planned to be completed by the spring of 2019.[8]
In October of 2018, Liberty Property Trust announced that they would be leaving the billion dollar project behind, and selling it to anyone who is interested, as a, "strategic shift." They still plan on finishing buildings in which construction has already made significant progress, such as the Camden Tower, and the Hilton Garden Inn, however they do not wish to start any new building projects on office buildings. They have stated that they wish to focus more on industrial space projects, rather than those of office spaces. However, Liberty Property Trust is still looking to develop four parcels of land along the Delaware river that is able to hold 500,000 square feet of land to be used for office space.[9] One such company that has made plans to take advantage of this is Elwyn, a nonprofit that assists those living with disabilities based in Delaware. In February of 2019 Elwyn received approval for assistance from New Jersey's Grow NJ economic development program that will help in covering the costs of the building. This office building would be built along the Delaware river, on one of the parcels owned previously owned by Liberty Property Trust, next to the currently under construction Camden Tower.[10]
Damon Pennington has made plans to develop a beer garden on Market Street, in Camden. This restaurant art exhibit hybrid, dubbed the Camden Arts Yard, will be built over a vacant lot. The restaurant is planned to be opened by the summer of 2019.[11] This would be opened alongside another restaurant called, Signatures 315, which would be part of Pennington's plan to create a "restaurant row."[12]
- ^ "Office of the Mayor | City of Camden". Retrieved 2019-04-01.
- ^ "Office of the Mayor | City of Camden". Retrieved 2019-04-01.
- ^ "Office of the Mayor | City of Camden". Retrieved 2019-04-01.
- ^ Staff, Phillyvoice (2019-03-13). "Philly chef Michael Schulson to open two restaurants on Camden waterfront". Philly Voice. Retrieved 2019-04-10.
- ^ Steele, Allison; Klein, Michael (2019-03-14). "Michael Schulson plans two restaurants for Camden waterfront". Philly Inquirer. Retrieved 2019-04-10.
- ^ Adomaitis, Greg (2016-12-10). "New details about Camden's $1B waterfront redevelopment revealed". nj.com. Retrieved 2019-04-15.
- ^ "On the Waterfront: American Water opens Camden headquarters". Courier-Post. Retrieved 2019-04-15.
- ^ "9 Major Camden Development Projects To Watch in 2019". TAPinto. Retrieved 2019-04-15.
- ^ "Camden Waterfront developer selling its office projects". Courier-Post. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
- ^ Adelman, Jacob (2019-02-22). "Care provider Elwyn eyes new office building on Camden waterfront for regional consolidation". philly.com.
- ^ "Camden Arts Yard, the city's first beer garden, takes root on Market Street". Courier-Post. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
- ^ Zoppo, Avalon (2018-07-06). "Could new beer garden be the start of a budding 'restaurant row' in Camden?".