The Pennsauken Township Committee on June 19 voted to ask the municipal planning board to investigate whether property at 5105 North Park Drive (Block 6305, Lot 9) qualifies as an area in need of redevelopment and, separately, conditionally designated a redeveloper for a cluster of blocks under the township’s redevelopment process.

The committee approved Resolution 2025‑213 directing the planning board to undertake the investigation of 5105 North Park Drive “to determine if the property … qualifies as an area in need of redevelopment,” and recorded the motion with roll‑call votes in favor.

Why it matters: designation as an area in need of redevelopment can allow a municipality to use redevelopment powers, including negotiating redevelopment plans and, in some cases, exercising eminent domain under state redevelopment law. The committee also moved on a conditional redeveloper designation that advances a separate redevelopment project in the township.

What the committee approved

Resolution 2025‑213: The committee moved and approved sending the question of Block 6305 Lot 9 (5105 North Park Drive) to the planning board for study pursuant to redevelopment law; the resolution text as read referenced state redevelopment statute language.

Resolution 2025‑214: The committee voted to conditionally designate Beth Posada, AME Churches and CMC Development Group LLC collectively as redeveloper for a set of parcels identified in the meeting as Blocks 3814 and blocks 67–71 (?) and others listed by block number in the resolution text; the measure also authorized executing an escrow agreement and other related agreements with the designated redeveloper. Committee members voted in favor by roll call.

Votes and procedural notes

Both items passed by roll call. Committee members recorded “Yes” votes for each named resolution in the transcript; the presiding mayor called each question and the clerk recorded the roll calls.

Discussion, limits and next steps

Committee discussion during the meeting was procedural; no substantive redevelopment plan details, financing amounts or timelines were presented on the floor. The resolutions authorize the planning board investigation and the conditional redeveloper designation and allow staff to execute escrow and related documents but do not finalize a redevelopment plan or funding commitments.

Ending

Both redevelopment items passed at the June 19 meeting and will proceed to staff and planning‑board steps: the planning board will study whether 5105 North Park Drive is an area in need of redevelopment, and township staff will work with the conditionally designated redeveloper on escrow and related agreements. No redevelopment plan or project approvals were adopted at the meeting.