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Urban Development: 'We Need to Work Together'

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ-A panel of top state officials and the mayor of New Jersey's largest city air out the key issues.

By Eric Peterson | Updated on March 06, 2008

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ-Gov. Jon Corzine has the headliner at this week’s NJ- Naiop Public Policy Symposium , but before he took the stage, four members of his cabinet put some meat on the bones of the topic of urban economic development. It remains a hot topic in the Garden State.

The panel’s moderator, Newark Mayor Cory Booker, set the tone when he declared that New Jersey was “in danger of becoming a tale of two states,” a reference to disparate wealth and poverty. “We are in a position to show the world that we can create the American Dream, completing the task of creating wealth and doing good.” Ultimately, Booker said, the issue is one of, “not making the cities wards of the state, but growth engines.”

As to the goal of creating jobs, Gary Rose, chief of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development, told attendees that “the urban strategy is big in the governor’s economic development plan.” Explaining that his office works in concert with other state agencies, he added that, “this is not a cookie-cutter business. ‘One size’ does not fit all. We go to each city, from project to project, to develop a plan.”

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