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Map of Selected Projects in New Jersey

Community Testimonials

Everyone benefits when everyone has the chance to succeed. We have created an uneven playing field in America over our history, and this legislation helps all of our citizens contribute to our nation’s forward progress.

-Jeffrey Simons, JL Simon’s Marketing & Advertising Consulting, East Brunswick, New Jersey

Selected Projects in New Jersey

Robert Wood Johnson Fitness and Wellness Center

New Brunswick,
NJ
(2011)

Community, Grocery and Fresh Food, Housing, Infrastructure, Mixed-use, Recreation, Retail, Retail and Commercial, Transit Oriented Development, Transportation and Ports, YMCAs and YWCAs

CDE(s): CCG Community Partners, Wells Fargo, WNC National Community Development Advisors

Transformation of an underutilized downtown New Brunswick site into a major transit-oriented, mixed-use facility focused on community health.

550 Cookman Avenue

Asbury Park,
NJ
(2010)

Historic Rehabilitation, Mixed-use

CDE(s): Capital One

Built in 1937, 550 Cookman Avenue is a shining example of Asbury Park’s art deco history. NMTC financing supported restoreation of this unique building, with careful consideration taken with its

Vallsburg Child Development

Newark,
NJ
(2010)

Community, Daycare and Early Childhood, Mixed-use, Youth and Families

CDE(s): New Jersey Community Loan Fund

The new Ivy Hill Preschool creates a place of beauty, a place where children would feel competent - and a place that is safe and nurturing.

26 Journal Square Rehab

Jersey City,
NJ
(2008)

Mixed-use

CDE(s): New Jersey Redevelopment Authority

Rehabilitation of the abandoned Labor Bank Building.

Jane H. Booker Family Health Center

Neptune,
NJ
(2008)

Community, FQHCs

CDE(s): New Jersey Redevelopment Authority

The Jane H. Booker Family Health Center provides a wide range of outpatient health care services to meet the needs of families, regardless of their ability to pay. Its staff