Cramer Hill Community Planning Meetings

The Cramer Hill Community Benefits Committee has elected to secure technical assistance to enhance the ability of residents and other stakeholders of the Cramer Hill neighborhood of Camden, NJ to provide meaningful input into and be actively engaged in the preparation of redevelopment plans for the area. These services will be provided by Lamar Wilson Associates. The purpose of his services is to assist residents and stakeholders in creating a document to present to the Camden Redevelopment Agency that codifies input for the eventual redevelopment plan for Cramer Hill. CHCDC and the Cramer Hill community will use this document to help define the range of community benefits that the redevelopment plan will present to existing residents, merchants and institutions of the Cramer Hill. This work will be completed in three phases.


Phase One Tasks:

• Data Collection/Information Gathering

• Meet and coordinate with The Reinvestment Fund (TRF) to review existing data and information describing specific demographic, economic and market conditions and trends impacting Cramer Hill.

Phase Two Tasks

• Meet and coordinate with Interface Studio to use and map the above-referenced data to identify specific redevelopment /reinvestment challenges, themes, or opportunities that should be addressed by the redevelopment plans for Cramer Hill as authorized through the CRA.


• Facilitate four separate meetings involving residents and other community stakeholders of Cramer Hill to:

o present findings/ideas generated from Phase One
o review finings/ideas generate from Interface Studio’s analysis of land use information
o discuss redevelopment needs, community priorities, and reinvestment opportunities



• Use the results of these meetings to identify and give priority ranking to direct and indirect benefits that redevelopment of Cramer Hill should (based on results from all of the above steps) provide to residents, merchants and institutions of the community.

• Prepare memoranda highlighting comments, concerns, questions, and ideas discussed at each meeting, and one memorandum highlighting common views and recommendations and their implications for principles and practices of community input that CHCDC will eventually convey to CRA.

• Facilitate one community-wide, town hall type meeting of residents and other community stakeholders of Cramer Hill to:

o present findings/ideas generated from four smaller neighborhood meetings
o review land use information and redevelopment needs, priorities, and opportunities
o generate consensus on community benefit goals to be presented to CRA

Phase Three Tasks: Community Input/Benefits Codified

• Prepare a report codifying community input for the Cramer Hill Redevelopment plan, that includes a framework outlining the basis for and range of community benefits by category – direct and indirect – the actual redevelopment of the community should generate for existing residents, merchants and institutions.