Amid a small-business boomlet, a South Jersey city looks to residential and transit projects to boost downtown

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Entrepreneurs like Sadiyyah Maamoon have opened businesses in downtown Woodbury well ahead of a proposed Broad Street residential development and with possible light rail service.

Woodbury is negotiating a redevelopment agreement with Tantum-in Roseland, Essex County, for a 223-unit condominium complex with first-floor retail space and a parking garage on the west side of the 100 block of South Broad Street. The city has been assembling the parcel for years and in 2022 commissioned a housing market study to help prepare for such a mixed-use complex.

“But one of the struggles of the downtown district, unfortunately, is with some property owners whose rents are too high and who aren’t willing to work with the businesses,” said Jenna Even, the board president of

 

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