Editing Cranford, New Jersey (section)

== Economy ==
[[File:Cranford NJ stores and street.jpg|thumb|right|Stores in the downtown area]]
[[File:Cranford NJ street scene.jpg|thumb|right|Intersection in downtown Cranford]]

The Riverfront redevelopment project on South Avenue brought restaurants and housing into downtown Cranford.<ref>Staff. [http://www.nj.com/cranford/index.ssf/2013/05/garden_communities_launches_ri.html "Garden Communities launches Riverfront at Cranford Station"], ''Cranford Chronicle'', May 29, 2013. Accessed November 8, 2016.</ref>

In the 1980s, Cranford founded the state's first [[Business improvement district|special improvement district]], which allows for the downtown district to have a special tax on building and business owners for downtown development and marketing which is managed by the [https://www.cranfordnj.org/downtown-cranford Cranford Downtown Management Corporation].<ref>Walsh, Jeremy. [http://www.nj.com/news/local/index.ssf/2010/04/committee_favors_widening_cran.html "Committee favors widening Cranford's special improvement district"], ''[[The Star-Ledger]]'', April 29, 2010. Accessed July 17, 2012. "When the special district was established in 1985 to help make streetscape improvements downtown, it was the first such district in New Jersey."</ref> The DMC is governed by a [[Board of Directors]] consisting of business owners, property owners, and residents, members of which are appointed by the Township Committee.
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