SJBiz_AroundTown_Camden_0421_AroundTown 4 / 19 / 21 11 : 54 AM Page 3 Coming Together for the Community : CAMDEN warehouses are homes , so we have tried to be lighting , air circulation and ensure flexibility for cognizant of the fact that we’re in the middle of a variety of uses . Locker rooms were brought up a neighborhood , ” Atwood says . to code and made handicap accessible and safe . The port has taken steps to reduce noise and “ The recreation and human services offices environmental pollution . It was awarded two were urgently in need of accessibility upgrades , grants by the New Jersey Department of Envi - windows and finish upgrades to accommodate The gymnasium ronmental Protection toward the purchase of the heavy use of the facility . Within the recreation renovation at the Jackie Robinson electric cargo center , the Philadelphia Sixers Youth Foundation handling equipment , including 22 Community Center , opened a new Learn and Play Center , complete electric forklifts and one electric yard hostler . completed by PS & S with new computer lab , workstations and related “ That’s23 pieces that previously ran on diesel and equipment , ” she continues . will greatly reduce or work to reduce the environ - food pantries throughout other LSM properties . ” The company also created a new umbrella mental impact in the immediate vicinity of the Services to keep kids engaged in safe organization , PS & S CARES , for its volunteer port . … We have actively been trying to cut down activities outside of school have been important efforts . It has redoubled its efforts to address on idling . We don’t want trucks idling for three as well . Last year , PS & S , an architecture and engi - diversity , inclusion and equity within the company hours until they are loaded , which only creates neering firm , completed its upgrades of the and through company - wide volunteer participa - air pollution and noise in the community , ” Jackie Robinson Community Center and tion and programs . Atwood continues . Camden City Community Service Center offices . Long - term , the partnership between One of the biggest ways the port can make “ The gymnasium , locker rooms and mechan - Camden’s businesses and its residents will an impact on the surrounding community is with ical systems in the Jackie Robinson Community prove jobs . “ We’re able to provide good union , family - Center were desperately in need of renovation , to be the fundamental component of their sustaining jobs , and as much as we can , we hire accessibility upgrades and mechanical improve - shared success . For example , weeks before the directly from the city of Camden . We work with ments to serve the community safely and appro - pandemic hit , the South Jersey Port Corporation Camden Works and Cooper’s Ferry Partnership priately , ” says Marge Della Vecchia , vice presi - had just expanded its executive team , including to obtain applicants from the city , ” he says , espe - dent . “ This community center is an important and the addition of Jonathan Atwood , chief of staff cially as valued neighborhood amenity , used year - round and external affairs . Some initiatives were com - investments in offshore wind energy grow by all ages for basketball , boxing , training and plicated by the pandemic , but one priority it and spur job creation . “ As things reopen , swimming in the summer . ” forged ahead on was being a good neighbor I’m looking forward to doing more community The PS & S team designed the to Camden residents . “ We are located right outreach and opening the dialogue with gymnasium to w on the waterfront and on the other side of our residents . ” accommodate maximum playing area , best 18 | SOUTH JERSEY BIZ | VOLUME 11 ISSUE 4 | SouthJerseyBiz.net