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South Jersey’s Projects To Watch: Cape May County

07/29/10

  As you know, this year, your favorite regional business publication has turned its attention from profiling South Jersey’s “People to Watch” to “Projects to Watch.”
  Specifically, we’re going county-by-county and looking at the development and redevelopment Projects to Watch, including (when we can) the most important projects completed in the last 12 months, the most important projects underway, and the most important projects on the drawing board.
  As with all lists, we know that we’ll inevitably overlook some important efforts—just as we missed a few important people. But that’s the nature of lists. And you can help us be as complete as possible be letting us know about any projects in your county that you believe belong on our list. Just drop our publisher, Jenny Ryan, a note with the details at jenny@snjbp.com
  Now, here’s our list for Cape May County…with thanks to Freeholder Leonard C. Desiderio, who oversees planning for the Board of Freeholders, and the County’s hard-working Planning Director, Leslie L. Gimeno, PP, AICP.
  The County is looking at more than $45 million in new construction—but all in the public sector. Gimeno says that there are some private projects in the works, but they are “fairly small.” Developers are “waiting for the economy to turn around” in Cape May County, as they are everywhere else, she notes.
  Gimeno points out that although the County has only 100,000 year-round residents, that number increases to more than 650,000 on summer weekends…with the predictable strain on infrastructure at every level.
  “So, we are taking advantage of this down time and the available grant funds to take care of infrastructure issues,” she says, which translates into more than a dozen significant public projects that are either underway or will be by March of next year.
  In addition, the County’s newest energy master plan “identified a lot of opportunities” for government to “set an example” in green development, adds Gimeno. As a result, every new County project is being planned to be LEED certified at the Silver level.

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