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...sorrow and the danger, the stench and the dilapidation, it is sometimes easy to ignore the most visible sign of change in Camden -- a project that many people are convinced is the seed of a new city. Investors have pulled together roughly a quarter of a billion dollars that will bring to the Delaware waterfront the headquarters for GE Aerospace, plus a hotel, waterfront park, the nation's second largest aquarium and an office tower to contain the world headquarters of Campbell's Soup. The hope, says Thomas Corcoran, president of the Coopers Ferry Development Association, is that the complex...
Given the prime swatch of real estate directly across from Philadelphia, the project has generated plenty of interest from future tenants and developers. But there remains the disturbing possibility that Camden's waterfront may become a daylight colony of suburbanites surrounded by a sea of urban decay. The ripples, say the skeptics, might never extend beyond the edge of the Delaware...
...reclamation of the rest of Camden, for the moment, rests in the hands of humbler agents. Dotted throughout the city are a number of tiny oases where abandoned homes are restored and sold at cost to families in need of housing. One such venture is Heart of Camden, which has so far rescued 55 of the city's 4,000 abandoned homes. Three years ago, the group also decided to bring in youths from the state juvenile facility to help with the renovations; they now manage their own operation...
...homeowners in HOC are turning their hands to the task of building more than just houses; they are also being given the chance to become the carpenters of their own futures. But the children of Camden, like all poor children in all dying cities, need more than pilot projects and symbolic gestures. "Camden is the purest distillation of our policy of not-so-benign urban neglect," says Congressman Rob Andrews. "We cannot afford to just write off 10% to 15% of the American public as irredeemable. Anyone who has any compassion must feel this...
Despair in Camden...