Year in Review

Notable Events, Initiatives, and Partnerships

Downtown
by the Numbers

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Daytime Population

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Median Home Value

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Average Studio Rent

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Average 1-Bedroom Rent

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Average 2-Bedroom Rent

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sq. ft. of office space

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sq. ft. of retail space

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Multifamily Rental Units

45.1%

of residents have some college education

28.7%

of total employment is in educational services, healthcare and social assistance

54,000

jobs in the Central Business District

January

A group of students from NJIT building a parklet.

Parklet Partnership with NJIT

  • NDD fosters a strategic partnership with Tenisha Malcolm Wint and The Nature Conservancy

  • Beginning of NDD Admin Quantifiable Business Contact Walks 

  • Advanced Horticulture Training Initiative with Rutgers School of Continuing Education

  • NDD Strategic Partnership with e-scooter companies begins

  • Attended ribbon cutting ceremony for the Miller Street Pathways to Housing Center

  • Community Policing Partnership with NPD’s Metro Unit reestablished with Captain Omar Diaz

 

February

Inception of the NDD Tree Project Committee

  • NDD Operations Team began their strategic partnership with the Covenant House for Peak Season temporary staffing employment opportunities

  • NDD acquired the Westinghouse FFS detail at the former Westinghouse Site on Orange St. and University Ave.

  • NDD Team virtually attended the Annual New Jersey Downtown Conference

Group of proud LGBTQ folks and allies holding a "Newark Forward" banner in the street.

NDD Operations Team partnered with the Newark Pride Center on Academy St. to assist with the hiring of Newark residents as temporary staff for Peak Season 2022

 

March

Red bears wearing leprechaun hats in the back of a truck with a banner that says, "Happy St. Patrick's Day."

NDD participates in the Annual City of Newark St. Patrick’s Day Parade

  • NDD SOMA Real Estate Report: Retailer Interfacing

  • NDD partners with the LPCCD for a Fee-for-Service Planter Fulfillment Order

  • NDD Newark Go Survey Completed NDD meets with the Neighborhood Investment Program

  • NDD Placemaking Committee First Quarterly Meeting

  • NDD Marketing and Communications Committee First Quarterly Meeting

  • NDD participates in the monthly Newark DIG Committee Meetings

  • NDD contracts with ONYX for a FFS Courtyard Maintenance ongoing seasonal detail

  • NDD attends Newark360 Technical Advisory Committee 1: Transportation and Critical Infrastructure

  • NDD attends PULSE Food Security Listening Project

  • NDD attends PULSE Quality of Life Listening Tour: Environmental Racism

April

NDD marketing team and red bears at the Newark Airport.

NDD Marketing Team and Red Bears invited to EWR for Earth Day

  • NDD Pedestrian Wayfinding Signage Program Project Kick-Off Meeting

  • NDD partners with Bridges Project Connect for hiring referrals for Peak Season 2022

Exterior of the Newark Public Library.

NDD Horticulture Team programs the Newark Public Library Main Courtyard: seasonal improvements

Man standing at Good Food Bucks Community Farmers Market table full of fresh fruits and vegetables.

NDD participates in the 2022 Good Food Bucks Community Farmers Market Training

 

May

Man eating lunch in a pop-up parklet built in a parking space.

NDD Parklet Season begins: four wooden structures, four pop-up parklets

  • NDD 2022 Peak Season begins

  • NDD Downtown Market begins

  • NDD Fitness Club begins

  • NDD Summer Planting completed

  • NDD partners with Downtown New Jersey for their first Lunch and Learn Series post-pandemic. Hosted at the Newark Public Library

  • NDD attends The Soul of a Movement: Reimagining Justice with Community Confirmation facilitation

  • Bloomberg/NDD: City Bike Share Survey completed

  • NDD participates in Halsey Street Community workgroup meeting

  • NDD Winter Plant Community Donation completed

  • NDD Quality of Life Ambassadors complete various hospitality details during graduation season

  • NDD researches best practices pertaining to parking in Business Improvement Districts: Old City District, Montclair BID, and Paylock: Parking Solutions

 

June

  • NDD celebrates one full year of Waste Collection Services by vehicular compactor to supplement the baseline services of the City of Newark

  • NDD Placemaking Committee Second Quarterly Meeting

  • NDD Marketing and Communications Committee Second Quarterly Meeting

 

July

NDD Ambassadors posing in a group at the BBQ held outdoors.

NDD Annual Ambassador BBQ at the Newark Public Library

  • NDD attends IDA 2022: Advancing Places: Talking Trash

  • NDD team building activity: Staff Training: Discovering Your Personality Spectrum

  • NDD attends IDA 2022: Advancing Places: Holiday and Winter Programming

 

August

Group posing in a parklet.

NDD Parklet Art Activation

  • NDD partners with NJEDA and the GNCVB on a strategic marketing campaign to highlight Newark and support local businesses for the MTV VMAs

  • NDD reestablishes outdoor seating at Audible

  • NDD asked to participate in the City of Newark Homelessness Strategic Plan: Final Street Outreach Work as a Commissioner

  • NDD partners with the Newark Gift Card and Audible for the NDD Ambassador Awards and Recognition Program 

  • NDD conducts the SOMA Retailer Survey

  • NDD Festival Lighting installed on Treat Place

NDD team building activity: Tree Identifying

 

September

Newark employees manning a table for Essex Community Resource Day.

NDD participates in the Greater Essex Community Resource Day

  • NDD Placemaking Committee Third Quarterly Meeting 

  • NDD Marketing and Communications Committee Third Quarterly Meeting

  • NDD team building activity: NJ Community Food Bank

  • NDD attends the International Downtown Association Annual Conference in Chicago

  • NDD attends Transforming Central Business Districts facilitation

  • NDD is invited by the Newark Public Safety Collaborative to participate in the Newark Public Safety Collaborative Session at Hahne and Co. featuring Risk Terrain Modeling with the Swedish Police, Atlantic City, NJ Police Department, and the Kansas City Police Department

Red bears standing by large white lettering that reads "HALSEY."

NDD participates in Halseyfest 2022

Volunteers planting trees in sidewalk planters.

NDD fall planting completed

 

October

Young boy wearing a Spider Man costume petting a baby alpaca in a petting zoo.

NDD Second Annual Fall Fest

  • NDD staff retreat in Providence, Rhode Island

  • NDD competes in and wins first place in the City of Newark Annual Slam Dunk the Junk Contest

  • NDD meets with partners at Invest Newark to discuss future collaborations

  • NDD Horticulture Team completes annual Gateway To Newark Mural maintenance detail

  • Bloomberg Group meets with NDD Tree Project internal committee to request their assistance in carrying out Mayor Baraka’s master plan for the City of Newark

 

November

NDD winter planting completed

  • NDD winter planting completed

  • NDD supports the Central Business District with a turkey donation

 

December

A crowd gathered around a very tall holiday tree with warm white lights all lit up in the evening.

NDD Ninth Annual Holiday Tree Lighting

  • NDD Placemaking Committee Fourth Quarterly Meeting

  • NDD Marketing and Communications Committee Fourth Quarterly Meeting

 

Other

  • Monthly NDD Security Task Force Committee Meetings

  • BIDs/SIDs partnership with Invest Newark

  • NDD attends Imperial Dade Expo

  • Collaborations/Support of =SPACE

  • NDD attends League of Municipalities

  • Local business marketing assistance/support: Wendy’s on Market St, Konoz

  • NDD Fall & Spring Plant Donation

  • Monthly participation in Newark Doing Infrastructure Green (DIG) Committee as well as the City of Newark Green Team