You guys missed that 70-something jobs from a Maryland company are coming to Camden as well.
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Diogenix Inc., a molecular diagnostics company, is moving a small laboratory from Maryland to the Camden "in order to expand and transform it into a federally-compliant and accredited facility," says an NJ EDA statement. The Inquirer says it's a done deal, with Diogenix being awarded $7.45 million over 10 years.
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Maryland isn't New Jersey or Philadelphia.
At any rate, I'd love to know what you guys would suggest they do to revitalize Camden. New Jersey as a state and the surrounding South Jersey communities spent roughly 50 years dumping their problems in to Camden, from illness-causing industries no one else wanted near their house to affordable housing that other towns paid Camden to take (read
this, it's important) to methadone clinics it didn't want in its communities (even though today, most drug users are suburbanites, but, you know). How do you work with that?
Listen, I hate tax breaks. I hate the race to the bottom game we play with each other. It's a horrible way to run a country, and ultimately it's going to make everyone worse off. But let's blue sky this. What would you do to bring people into a place that everyone for 50 years has been calling a crime ridden hellhole you better avoid if you don't want to die? How do you combat a half-century's worth of negativity? Remember, everyone from Camden County, the State of NJ, Camden's own corrupt government, to private businesses of every size spent decades hurting the city. The social signaling that "Camden is a place that you do not go to" is
so insanely strong and comes from so many places.
So how do you combat that? How do you undo all those years of destroying whatever Camden built up over the years,
especially when the destruction came at the hands of people who still live nearby? I'd love to hear your suggestions, and so would a lot of other people.
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