[CPEO-BIF] Cramer Hill, Camden, New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Community center planned at landfill

By RICHARD PEARSALL
Cherry Hill Courier-Post (NJ)
December 5, 2007

CAMDEN

The Harrison Avenue Landfill has been part of a number of grand plans to
revive the city's Cramer Hill section since closing in 1971.

Among them was the Cherokee company's proposal to build a golf course
there as part of a billion-dollar redevelopment blueprint.

None of those plans came to fruition.

But on Tuesday, state and city officials gathered at the old landfill to
celebrate a more limited plan that is moving forward.

Armed with a $54 million grant from the estate of Joan Kroc, the wife of
McDonald's founder Ray Kroc, the Camden chapter of the Salvation Army is
moving ahead with plans to build a massive community center on a section
of the 85-acre landfill.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071205/NEWS01/712050390/1006/NEWS01

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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