2002 Smart Growth Award Winners

Read about great smart growth and sustainable development projects around the state and winners in the Smart Growth Awards.

• 2002 Smart Growth Pioneer Award: Verizon

  For their continued and lasting commitment to Newark and New Jersey

• Promoting Pedestrianism and Community in Englewood

  The Englewood renewal plan for the West Side-and the Group USA building which serves as its anchor-conforms to many of the core principles of intelligent design and growth, and suggests how they are at once interdependent and distinct.

• Hoboken South Waterfront Project

  The south waterfront project stands as a brilliant example of the power of compromise, sensible growth, and dialogue between community groups, municipal governments, and institutional backers.

• Adaptive Reuse & Rehabilitation Projects

  Pennrose partnered with the municipal government to create Providence Square, a combination new construction/rehabilitation conveniently located close to the downtown district.

• Willingboro Town Center

  Created places, defined space, created visual interest, and promoted pedestrianism in Willingboro, NJ.

• Bakery Village

  This project, which so seamlessly and successfully combines attractive design features with utility and security concerns, exists as tangible proof of a solid intention among progressive-minded developers and state agencies to revitalize even the most impoverished pockets of urban New Jersey.

• Gaslight Commons

  Promoted pedestrianism, respecting the local vernacular, maintaining an appropriate scale, and creating visual interest in South Orange.