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A River Runs Through Them: the Story of Philadelphia and Camden's a river runs through them By Thomas Corcoran, Anthony Perno, III, and Jenny Greenberg Credit: Cooper’s Ferry Partnership have worked to re-invent their downtown waterfronts as regional destinations offering a mix of large-scale family Thomas Corcoran entertainment attractions, public events, festivals, con- is the president of certs, and fireworks displays. the Delaware River Waterfront Today, the master plans for Philadelphia and Cam- Corporation. den include significant low-to-mid-rise housing com- ([email protected]) ponents, integrated with retail and restaurants along with public amenities including parks and trails. Phila- Anthony Perno is delphia and Camden have come to view their down- chief executive officer town waterfronts as assets that must be leveraged to of Cooper’s Ferry serve residents of the city and region, as well as visitors. Partnership. (perno@ coopersferry.com) Today, employment in education and the health services sector has replaced industrial activity as the Jenny Greenberg principal driver in Philadelphia and Camden. The “eds is a fundraising and meds” account for 43 percent of employment in consultant and Camden and 37 percent in Philadelphia. (The Camden writer, who works Higher Education and Healthcare Task Force: A Winning on both sides of the Visitors disembark from the RiverLink Ferry on the Camden waterfront. Waterfront. The RiverLink provides a fun and scenic way to travel Investment for the City of Camden, 2012) In both cities, educational and medical institutions attract knowledge (jgreenberg@ between the two sides of Philadelphia and Camden’s growing drwc.org) regional waterfront destination. workers who are seeking amenities including vibrant waterfronts. Both cities have the opportunity to provide housing as well as a diverse mix of commercial activity, he cities of Philadelphia, Pennsylva- cultural attractions, and recreational opportunities to nia, and Camden, New Jersey, are two attract and retain these knowledge workers. distinct municipalities in two different This article will tell the stories of Camden and Phila- t states. Yet, one can stand at Penn’s Landing delphia’s downtown waterfront revival efforts. Both on Philadelphia’s Central Delaware Waterfront and cities were faced with hundreds of acres of vacant and underutilized land along the Delaware Riverfront in the see visitors at the Camden Waterfront, a mere 2,200 post-industrial era. Weak market conditions along with feet away, across the Delaware River. fragmented land ownership, environmental contamina- Both cities are engaged in dramatic transformations tion, and inadequate and aged infrastructure have made of their downtown waterfronts from post-industrial redevelopment of these orphaned sites a slow and com- abandonment to an era of revival through which the riv- plex process that has required a combination of big vi- erfront is once again becoming a center for commercial sion, detail-oriented tenacity, and creativity around le- and cultural activity. Just as Philadelphia and Camden’s veraging and packaging private and public resources. waterfronts were interconnected through trade for over In this vein, Philadelphia and Camden are now two centuries, there is an opportunity to re-integrate the working together across state lines, with the recognition two sides of the riverfront as a single signature water- that physical transportation linkages and programmatic front destination in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. synergy between the two waterfronts will make them Inspired by the highly successful model of Baltimore’s greater than the sum of their parts. Inner harbor, since the 1970s, Philadelphia and Camden The story oF PhiladelpHia anD camden’s Downtown watErFront Revivals Camden and Philadelphia’s downtown waterfronts are in a process of transformation, from disconnected and underutilized assets into a single world-class waterfront destination for the Philadelphia region. Economic Development Journal / Spring 2013 / Volume 12 / Number 2 37 Jersey Port. The study determined that the waterfront could support a carefully planned, mixed-use develop- ment of family entertainment, recreational, and cultural attractions. As a result of this cooperative effort, Cooper’s Ferry Development Association was founded as a private, nonprofit corporation dedicated to creating and imple- menting a vision for Camden’s downtown waterfront. Known today as Cooper’s Ferry Partnership (CFP) af- ter a strategic merger with Camden’s downtown special services district in 2011, this organization has provided consistent leadership for the downtown waterfront for nearly 30 years, serving as overall planner, promoter, and master developer. Credit: Camden Riversharks Camden Credit: An organization of 14 staff, CFP is funded through Camden Riversharks fans cheer for the home team at Campbell’s Field. Views of foundation and corporate contributions, along with the Ben Franklin Bridge and Philadelphia skyline offer a stunning backdrop. the management fees that it generates on public infra- structure and other development projects. Working in tHE CAMDEn WATErFRONT cooperation with local, state, and federal public sector The city of Camden originated from small settle- partners, as well as the private sector, CFP has been ments along the Delaware River in the 17th century able to put into place the building blocks for a vibrant, that were reliant on trade and connected by ferry to the mixed-use waterfront community anchored by family city of Philadelphia. At their peak, in 1925, eight steam entertainment attractions. ferries operated by Pennsylvania Railroad travelled CFP has coordinated more than $75 million of infra- back and forth across the river between Camden and structure development, which was implemented in suc- Philadelphia. cessive phases over 25 years to create a framework for In the late 19th and early 20th century, the city of new private development. This included extending the Camden grew to an economic and transportation hub downtown street and utility grid to the waterfront, creat- and was the civic and cultural center of Southern New ing a linear park along the river to permanently preserve Jersey with major employers including Campbell Soup public access, and implementing streetscape enhance- Company, Victor Talking Machine Company (later RCA ments throughout much of downtown Camden. Victor), and New York Shipbuilding Corporation. Recognizing the importance of establishing Camden In the second half of the 20th century, an extreme as a transportation hub, CFP played an active role in es- loss of industry and coinciding suburban develop- tablishing the alignment of the New Jersey Transit Riv- ment led to large population declines. Camden went erLINE through downtown Camden to the waterfront. from roughly 125,000 residents in 1950, to just over The Camden to Trenton line connects the city into 77,000 by 2010. (U.S. Census) While the city contin- Amtrak’s Northeast corridor service. CFP is also advo- ued to serve as the county seat and retained corporate cating for the extension of rail service south to Rowan and institutional employers including Campbell Soup University’s main campus in Woodbury, New Jersey. Company’s World headquarters, Rutgers University In 1991, CFP also established the RiverLink, offering Camden campus, and Cooper hospital, there was a ferry service between Camden and Philadelphia’s Penn’s dramatic decentralization of population, business and Landing for the first time in 40 years. CFP is also cur- civic infrastructure away from the city of Camden into rently developing a regional bicycle trail network that the Southern New Jersey suburbs. emanates from Camden. In 1980, city and corporate leaders began an initia- These investments in public infrastructure and tive to capitalize on Camden’s downtown waterfront transportation have leveraged a critical mass of devel- as an underutilized asset that could be redeveloped to opment projects. On the Camden Waterfront, 5 percent breathe new economic vitality into the city. By the late of the city’s total land mass is generating 18 percent of 1980s, the infrastructure of an obsolete rail yard and tax revenue collected by the city. These developments ferry system was cleared away, and the remaining heavy have established a new center of economic activity in industrial facilities had reached the end of their produc- Camden, creating job opportunities and improving the tive lives. city’s image as a place to live, work, and invest. In 1984, the three principal owners of the waterfront Development projects include key family entertain- land – the city of Camden, Campbell Soup Company, ment anchors: New Jersey State Aquarium (1992); and RCA – jointly commissioned a planning study Susquehanna Bank Center, a 25,000-seat outdoor/in- to evaluate the development potential of their collec- door concert venue operated by Live Nation (1995); the tive holdings of roughly 120 acres of waterfront land Camden Children’s Garden (1999); Campbell’s Field, located between the Ben Franklin Bridge and the South home of the minor league baseball team, the Camden 38 Economic Development Journal / Spring 2013 / Volume 12 / Number 2 Riversharks (2001); Battleship New Jersey Memorial and The Camden Waterfront has also served as a cata- Museum (2001); and the Adventure Aquarium (2005 lyst for downtown redevelopment by playing a pivotal expansion and privatization of the NJ State Aquarium). role in overcoming suburban fears about coming into Office developments have included Camden Aero- Camden.
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