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Camden New Jersey Knocks Down Waterfront Prison: Will Residents Have a Say In...
After thirty years, New Jersey is tearing down the Riverfront State Prison located on approximately fourteen acres of prime waterfront property in North Camden. Former Governor Corzine, then Mayor...
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Accessing and Sharing Local Knowledge – Action Research in Progress
A desktop covered with thesis data I’ve spent the last two weeks conducting semi-structured interviews with small business owners in Camden, NJ. Throughout this stage of research, I’ve wrestled with...
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Open for Opportunity: The Shoe Kings
Every king requires a throne. “We’re here. We’re like fixtures in the community. If you can’t do it here, if you couldn’t sell chocolate in Hershey, PA, than where else can you sell it?” Byron Gans...
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Open for Opportunity and Growing with Stimulus Funding: Marcellus Construction
Marcellus Hill has been in the construction field for over twenty years. For the last eight years, he’s owned his own construction business in Camden, NJ. Like many people, Marcellus has been...
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Open for Opportunity: Friends Cafe
“Cooking was always a passion. I always get lost in the food and the aroma of making food. Food is an international language, it brings everyone together,” explains Kelly Chang, who left his job as a...
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Open for Opportunity: Arline Construction and Institute
Entrepreneur Tyrone Pitts with a painting depicting the ability to find success through balancing athletics and academics. Tyrone Pitts, a Camden born entrepreneur, owns a vertically integrated...
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Open for Opportunity: City Eyes
City Eyes owner Esther Williams Esther Williams is a New Jersey licensed optician and owner of City Eyes, an optical retail store on Broadway next to Cooper University Hospital in Camden, New Jersey....
View ArticleCamden New Jersey, the City that Even Urban Planners Ignore, Faces Fresh Woes
Camden’s fiscal woes are often referred to as a “crisis.” But a crisis is by definition an unexpected event requiring an unplanned change in course. Calling Camden’s problems a “financial crisis”...
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No Justice: The Code of the Street in Court
“Are you asking me or are you telling me?” she snips at the defense attorney then slouches away from the microphone with a sigh, her oversized earrings hitting the top of her shoulders. “Miss, you have...
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Mid-Morning Nap Sofa
Philadelphia, PA (August 2012) This post is part of a photographic series documenting street chairs in different cities around the world. Photo by Gayle Christiansen
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