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Press Release from Housing and Community Development
"Ground Broken for Affordable Housing Technology
Demonstration Park - 10 Homes to be built in Atlantic City’s
Northeast Inlet"
New Jersey Institute of Technology and Casino Reinvestment
Development Authority Spearheading Project
Atlantic City, N.J. - Monday, June, 16, 1997 –
Formal groundbreaking ceremonies were held today for
a project to build 10 prototype homes demonstrating innovative design,
building, operations and maintenance techniques on a two block site
bounded by Madison, Rhode Island and Massachusetts Avenues and Grammercy
Place in the Northeast Inlet.
The project, the New Jersey Institute of Technology
(NJIT) Housing Technology Demonstration Park, was conceived to facilitate
the development and introduction of new building materials and methods
aimed at reducing the cost of housing.
"A number of industry teams have come together
to design and build three bedroom prototype houses that are less
costly than those using conventional construction methods and materials.
Each team was selected based on its ability to deliver a quality
home at a lower total cost to own," said Ezra Ehrenkrantz,
director for the Center for Architecture and Building Science Research
at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).
In addition to the NJIT Center for Architecture and
Building Science Research (CABSR), the project is supported by the
Casino Reinvestment Development Authority (CRDA), the Atlantic County
Improvement Authority, New Jersey Department of Community Affairs
and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
"This project is the next element in the long
term effort to redevelop the Northeast Inlet section of Atlantic
City," said Jim Kennedy, CRDA executive director. "Upon
completion, the NJIT Housing Technology Demonstration Park will
provide Atlantic City residents with first class, affordable housing,
and municipalities across the state with a model for constructing
affordable housing."
The homes will be showcased in the housing park for
a period of one year to demonstrate to the building industry, government
officials and the public that affordable housing can be built and
sold in Atlantic City as well as statewide. At the conclusion of
the demonstration period, the homes will be sold to qualified buyers
at affordable prices.
"This project illustrates how the university
can bring together industry and government to form a partnership
to address pressing quality of life issues such as affordable housing
and the environment," said Ehrenkrantz. "The demonstration
park project creates an incentive and an opportunity for industry
to bring new, cost-effective products and processes to the market
at a relatively low cost, complemented by an expedited code approval
of innovations directed at affordable housing."
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