Urban Focus

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A great resource for site assessment and tree selection in an urban environment. Download

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A resource for accelerating green infrastructure as business-as-usual for stormwater management, infrastructure investment and community development Get the report

In the News

• Piscataway residents sue zoning board to stop warehouses next to school, park
• ​Sens. Schumer, Brown unveil plan to replace polluting buses with clean ones
  
• Ørsted to locate North American Digital Operations Headquarters in Newark  
• Somerville working to develop 25-acre solar farm at former landfill
• Hoboken breaks ground on $230 million climate change resiliency project
• Essex-Hudson Greenway could battle stormwater woes, advocates say
• Jersey City's new Climate and Energy Action Plan is a win-win, officials say
• “This is slow murder”
• Newark Residents, 40+ groups call on Gov. Murphy and PVSC to stop fracked gas power plant .proposed in the Ironbound, shift to renewable energy plan
• Ground broken on $230 million 'rebuild by design' flood mitigation project
• New Jersey solar, gas power plans spotlight environmental justice concern

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Download Guide to Expanding Mitigation

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Core Values: Why American Companies are Moving Downtown is a new report by Smart Growth America in partnership with Cushman & Wakefield and the George Washington University School of Business' Center for Real Estate and Urban Analysis. The new report examines nearly 500 companies that moved to or expanded in walkable downtowns between 2010 and 2015, and includes interviews with more than 40 senior-level staff at those companies. 
The results provide an overview of why these companies chose a walkable downtown and what they looked for when considering a new location. The report also includes ideas for cities about how they can create the kinds of places these companies seek. Download the report

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