More than 300 guests celebrated New Jersey Future's 7th Annual Smart Growth Awards on June 5, 2008, at the Newark Club in Newark
Left image: Toni Griffin, Director of Community Development for the City of Newark, offers remarks emphasizing the steps New Jersey's largest city is taking, in City Hall as well as at the neighborhood level, to enhance planning capacity and build a foundation for robust residential, commercial, office and mixed-use development and redevelopment.
Right image: Peter Kasabach (pictured left), NJ Future Executive Director, talks to Steven J. Pozycki, chairman & CEO, SJP Properties, the Title Sponsor of this year’s Smart Growth Awards.
Left image: Tom O'Neill, NJF board member and this year's jury chair, introduces this year's honorees
Right image: NJF board members Ingrid Reed (chair) and Jim Gilbert
Left image: Marge Della Vecchia, Executive Director, NJ Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency, talks to Mat Abraham, NJ Economic Development Authority
Right image (from left) David Minno of Minno & Wasko Architects and Planners (2008 honoree); Carleton Montgomery, Executive Director of the Pinelands Preservation Alliance and NJF board member; and Pete Kasabach, NJF Executive Director
Left image: Caren Franzini, CEO of the NJ Economic Development Authority (2008 honoree), and Arthur Stern, CEO of the Cogswell Realty Group (2008 honoree)
Right image: Jane Kenny (center), Senior Vice President and Managing Partner, The Whitman Strategy Group, and NJF trustee
Left image: Marvin Reed (left), former Mayor of Princeton Borough; and Joel Schwartz, principal, Landmark Companies (2008 honoree)
Right image (from left): John Sheridan, President and CEO, Cooper Health System (2008 honoree); Barbara Lawrence, Executive Director, The Henry and Marilyn Taub Foundation, and former NJF Executive Director; and Ingrid Reed, chair of the NJF Board of Trustees.
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New Jersey Future would like to thank all of the 2008 Sponsors for making the Smart Growth Awards a great success. For a list of sponsors, click here.
The celebration is considered one of the state’s premier networking events and an occasion that draws wide media attention and an attendance of more than 300 development industry professionals, as well as local, regional, and state leaders. Since 2002, New Jersey Future has honored smart planning and development in New Jersey through our annual Smart Growth Awards. The awards help promote our mission to secure economic opportunity, community vitality and quality of life for all New Jerseyans.
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2008 Smart Growth Award Winners
Historic Building Reuse
Eleven 80, Newark
Cogswell Realty Group; Bank of America; Bovis Lend Lease;
Building Conservation Associates; Gruzen Samton Architects;
New Jersey Economic Development Authority
Infill Affordable Housing
Abbett Avenue Apartments, Morristown
Homeless Solutions; Town of Morristown;
F.J. Rawding Architect; William E. Simon Foundation; United Way of Morris County
Institutional Commitment to Community Revitalization
Health Sciences Campus, Cooper University Hospital, Camden
The Cooper Health System Board of Trustees; Camden County;
Camden Redevelopment Agency;
Cooper Lanning Civic Association;
New Jersey Housing & Mortgage Finance Agency; Saint Joseph’s Carpenter Society
Mixed-use Downtown Anchor
The Heldrich Redevelopment Project, New Brunswick
New Brunswick Development Corporation;
The John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers;
Keating Urban Partners
New Town Center Development
Plainsboro Village Center
Plainsboro Township; Sharbell Development Corporation
Town Center Revitalization Plan
Rahway Town Center Master Plan
City of Rahway; Bier Associates; Diversified Communities;
Timothy Haahs & Associates
Transit-Friendly Downtown Redevelopment
Park Square, Rahway
Landmark Companies; Minno & Wasko Architects and Planners;
City of Rahway
This year's title sponsor was:
Selection Process
The 2008 Smart Growth Awards are selected by an independent jury, which includes representatives of New Jersey Future’s Board of Trustees as well as other respected professionals in development and planning. All nominations will receive careful consideration by the Awards Selection Committee. All finalists are visited by at least one member of the committee prior to the final vote. To see the list of this year’s jurors, please click here.
