Trenton, NJ – Clarke Caton Hintz, along with the Bayonne Local Redevelopment Authority, Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects and Fidelco Realty has been recognized as the recipients of New Jersey Future’s 2005 Smart Growth Award in honor of the Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor. The Smart Growth Awards Celebration will take place on Wednesday, May 4th from 5:30pm – 8:00pm at the Newark Club in Newark, NJ, at what has become the premier celebration in New Jersey. The Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor will transform the former Military Ocean Terminal into a mixed use community extending two miles into the New York Harbor.

The master plan calls for five distinctive residential neighborhoods with a concentration of service and destination retail, select commercial office locations, special leisure/recreation and cultural attractions, civic facilities, and public open space all accessible by public transit, water transportation, and private automobile.

About New Jersey Future

New Jersey Future was founded to achieve smart growth statewide: growth that protects New Jersey’s open lands and natural resources, strengthens our communities and makes it easier to get around. New Jersey Future fulfills this mission through original research, policy analysis, public education, and advocacy. New Jersey Future is a nonprofit, nonpartisan 501 (c)(3) organization and is the state’s oldest and largest smart growth research and advocacy organization.

About New Jersey Future’s Smart Growth Awards

The Smart Growth Awards Program was developed to showcase the builders, town and corporations who strive to better our communities, preserve our natural areas and enhance our lives. A jury of experts in the fields of planning, architecture, development and conservation select the projects to be honored from those received through the open submission process. The awards will be presented on May 4th at The Newark Club at what has become the premier celebration of smart growth in New Jersey.

About Clarke Caton Hintz

Clarke Caton Hintz (CCH) is an award-winning architectural, planning, and landscape architecture firm with a 26-year track record of providing clients with a broad multi-disciplinary approach keyed to solving today's complex planning and design problems.

CCH approaches planning and design as a professional collaboration and believes that architecture, planning, landscape architecture, historic preservation and environmental analysis are fundamentally interdependent. Their multi-disciplinary approach distinguishes them from the more traditional architecture and planning firms in New Jersey and was vital in being named “Architecture Firm of the Year” by the New Jersey chapter of the American Institute of Architects.