“Given the tax credits available to users at the site are scheduled to sunset mid next year, as well as other factors,” said Hankowsky, the company needed to write down the $80 million project by almost a third of its investment. Last week, a study on those tax...
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Getting involved on campus matters
The end of July brings the horizon of August and soon college students from East Carolina University will return to the world of academia and all that it brings. Life as a college student consists of a multitude of things, but one facet which often gets taken for...
Bike share equity in Boston, a work in progress
“The absolute first step in having an equitable bike-share system is that there has to be access to the system. So there has to be bike-share stations in underserved communities,” McNeil added. Rutgers professor and transportation researcher Charles T. Brown agrees,...
How a Rutgers lecturer is helping local governments secure their systems
With increasing speculation about the role the Russian government may have played in the 2016 election and what tactics they might have used, cyberattacks on government entities have become a prominent issue at the forefront of the American conscious. Rutgers...
Anti-Test Movement Slows to a Crawl
Just a few short years ago, there were real questions about whether Congress would ditch annual, standardized assessments as part of a makeover of the nation’s main K-12 education law. At the same time, parents were increasingly choosing to opt their children out of...
Bike Share Company Pulls Out of Camden
After only two months, the bright yellow bikes that wheeled around the City of Camden’s streets are no more. The bike share program was supposed to be demonstration portion of a part of a six-month bike share feasibility study in partnership with Cooper’s Ferry...
Keyport launches dockless bike-share program
LimeBike and other dockless bike-share programs piloted this summer in New York City throughout Coney Island, Brooklyn, and in the Rockaways in Queens. “They have some benefits — fast deployment, flexibility for users,” said Rutgers University expert Robert Noland....
Tax credits just one of NJ's business magnets
NJBIZ writes that tax credits are just one of NJ's business magnets, quoting Lyneir Richardson (RBS) and James Hughes. NJBIZ.com, July 23, 2018 (subscription required)
Bound Brook students work to improve quality of life in town
Borough residents and visitors alike will feel a bit safer as street safety measures and beautification projects will be implemented throughout the month of July, and possibly for good. Those putting in the work are Student Ambassadors, a group of students part of 4-H...
Johnson, Diaz eager to see N.J. update its incentives program
When the state was trying to bounce back from the recession, the Grow New Jersey and Economic Redevelopment and Growth incentive programs made sense. Ten years later, a realignment of goals is in order, a new report says. The report by the Bloustein School of Planning...