Join our panelists on May 21st for a practical, tactical review of the online tools and techniques that help small businesses think big — creating a compelling brand promise, driving more online traffic, and creating a community of loyal customers in the process.
Save the Date: Thursday, June 6, 2013. The conference will be held at the Newark Museum. The conference is co-hosted by the NJ Historic Trust, NJ Historic Commission, NJ Historic Preservation Office, and the Common Wealth of New Jersey.Â
Join DVRPC and municipal leaders at a half-day forum on the intricacies of municipal shared services. In many cases, sharing services allows municipalities to decrease both the cost and the complexity of the services they provide to their constituents while providing a higher level of service overall.
Recent federal legislation on collocations, FCC non-binding guidance and now state level legislative proposals could dramatically impact your community's planning authority and local zoning of wireless facilities towers. In this webinar, BB&K telecommunications attorneys will provide an overview of the challenges and opportunities facing local governments as they attempt to protect local interests while complying with federal requirements governing zoning of wireless facilities and to defeat damaging state legislative proposals that are sweeping the nation.
The 5th Annual Sustainable Raritan River Conference will focus on action steps everyone can take as individuals, as families, as part of a company or as a leader in government – to improve water quality in the region through redevelopment, remediation, restoration and protection of the Raritan River and all its tributaries.
Featuring front-line Executive Directors from NYC - Kerry McLean from the South Bronx and Rebeca Ramirez from the Heart of Brooklyn - NJ'sJGSC Group, developer Steve Santola and commercial real estate CEOBrian Silbert.
At this meeting we will explore the connections between economic development, business, and quality of life amenities. We will hear about the new data tool CultureBlocks from Moira Baylson of Philadelphia’s Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy. Larry Eichel, of Pew’s Philadelphia Research Initiative will share findings from the Philadelphia 2013: State of the City report. Lastly, there will be a panel of creative economy businesses who will share their experiences and decision-making in opening businesses in and around Philadelphia.
 In this webinar we examine a few failed projects that damaged the financial position of the municipality that undertook them and consider what lessons we can learn from these unfortunate situations. “The wise learn from other people's mistakes and fools from their own.” –Old Proverb. “The way of fools seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice.” –King Solomon, Circa 950 A.D.
Please join APA-NJ as it celebrates one of its 2012 Great Place in New Jersey award winners with a Walking Tour of Broad Street, Hopewell Borough.  The Hopewell Borough Mayor, Council members and other local stakeholders will walk with us and discuss the efforts made to retain the historic qualities of the area while seeking and investing grant monies into streetscape improvements
Join AHPNJ in June for Our First All-Day Symposium on Expiring Affordability Controls
The Symposium will cover the following topics:  A brief history of restrictions, the control periods, credits and the planning process; a focus on discussing both rental and sales controls, including the documentation affecting the length of those controls; the benefits, costs and options for extending those controls; and the processes to unwind expiring controls.