Economic Development Projects - Camden County College 

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Camden County College is the State’s largest county college and serves as a major economic engine in Gloucester Township.  The BlackwoodCampus, which is located along College Drive, west of Route 42, is the college's oldest and largest location and hosts more than 10,000 students, faculty, staff and community members each week.

The college has designated approximately 270 acres on its Blackwood campus for commercial and/or residential development, of which about 130 acres are non-wetlands.  The designation evolved from a campus master plan adopted in 2002.  These areas are on the perimeter of the campus and are adjacent to other industrial and commercially zoned lands. The College has divided the targeted parcels into four “development areas” which are all owned by the College.  There are other vacant/developable parcels in the immediate vicinity of the campus and planned interchange, not owned by the college. 

In 2005, the College embarked on a six-year initiative to transform the Blackwood campus.  The $83 million capital initiative is the most significant project undertaken by Camden County College since the institution was founded in 1967. It will affect more than half of its facilities and structural amenities.

The college will demolish seven buildings, renovate an existing building, construct three new buildings and create roads, grounds and athletic fields suitable for a large multi-faceted campus.  The facilities include a science building that will house laboratories to support the region's booming science and healthcare industries and technology-rich spaces such as a lecture hall with instant polling capabilities, an interactive arena classroom and an atrium for public forums. There will be upgraded athletic fields for track, softball, baseball and soccer as well as nearly 10 percent more parking and safer vehicle-travel routes with a campus-encircling "ring road."

In fall 2005, construction began on the first of three new buildings; the Madison Hall Connector Building.  Once complete in 2007, the $22 million, 22,000 square foot Connector Building will serve as the College’s new Center for Civic Leadership and Responsibility.