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South Jersey Real Estate
Real Estate Feature
• The Real (Estate) DealAll you need to know about the South Jersey real estate market
This surreal real estate market is sort of a lesson in physics: The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
And if you jet amid the affluent and elite crowd who can afford to fall far without to much distress to your bank book, like a Mr. Terrell Owens, perhaps you’ve heard of him, the hurt doesn’t come so much in the landing but rather in the realization that letting go of a $4 million dwelling in this market brings with it a $4 million headache.
• Today’s Home (or Zen and the Art of Home Improvement)
Some may argue otherwise, but we contend it is not an overstatement to consider the idea of home virtuous. In fact, it may be one of humanity’s most virtuous conceits; one of those magnificent manifestations that binds us, grounds us, and allows us to experience a degree of comfort and contentment afforded no other creature on the planet. This is why we spend so much time and money refining the nuances of this thing called home. We want it to be beautiful. We want it to be impressive. But, above all, we want it to be ours.
• Voorhees Ups the Echelon
Don’t call it a mall anymore. It’s the Voorhees Town Center, if you please. And shopping is just the beginning.
In 2001, when Harry Platt was still Voorhees’ mayor, he knew the Echelon Mall was way overdue for a facelift. He tried getting the Rouse Company, the mall’s owner at the time, to work with him and the township to breathe new life into the shopping center. According to Platt, “When we saw the decline of the mall, we reached out to the people at Rouse. They didn’t return our calls or arrange to see and talk to us. The mall had been thriving for the prior 25 to thirty years, but Rouse was no longer paying attention to the mall or the town.”















