{"id":63852,"date":"2025-07-14T03:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T03:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/63852\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T03:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T03:27:08","slug":"njbiz-conversations-camden-mayor-vic-carstarphen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/63852\/","title":{"rendered":"NJBIZ Conversations: Camden Mayor Vic Carstarphen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/play-icon.png\"\/> Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>The news coming out of <a href=\"https:\/\/njbiz.com\/tag\/camden\/\" class=\"st_tag internal_tag \" rel=\"tag noopener\" title=\"Posts tagged with Camden\" target=\"_blank\">Camden<\/a> in recent years has been almost universally positive \u2014 a sharp turnaround from the days when the city was considered a hopeless case. From the 1950s into the 1990s, jobs and residents fled, leaving a shell across the Delaware River from the infinitely more prosperous Philadelphia.\n<\/p>\n<p>But the narrative slowly shifted. An aquarium opened. New <a href=\"https:\/\/njbiz.com\/subaru-the-power-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">corporate<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/njbiz.com\/philadelphia-76ers-cut-ribbon-on-new-camden-practice-facility\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">citizens<\/a> arrived. And older <a href=\"https:\/\/njbiz.com\/the-campbells-co-the-power-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anchor<\/a> institutions \u2013 notably <a href=\"https:\/\/njbiz.com\/cooper-health-groundbreaking-marks-milestone-in-camdens-renaissance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cooper University Health Care<\/a> \u2013 bolstered their presence in the city. By most <a href=\"https:\/\/njbiz.com\/camden-continues-rise-as-crime-rates-dip-to-record-lows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">measures<\/a>, Camden is recovering, and its finances have <a href=\"https:\/\/njbiz.com\/camden-a-bond-rating-stable-outlook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">improved dramatically<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Today, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.camdencounty.com\/vic-carstarphen-2022-mlk-winner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Victor Carstarphen<\/a> leads the city. Appointed mayor in May 2021, he was returned to office by the voters in November of that year. Carstarphen was born and raised in Camden and is a former high school basketball star there.<\/p>\n<p>In this edition of NJBIZ Conversations, Carstarphen discusses the city\u2019s renaissance, what it will take to keep the momentum building and his relationships with one of the city\u2019s most prominent citizens \u2014 South Jersey power broker George Norcross.\n<\/p>\n<p>Watch the interview below:<\/p>\n<p>To listen instead, click on the podcast:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article The news coming out of Camden in recent years has been almost universally positive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":63853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,45544,37129,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,45545],"class_list":{"0":"post-63852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-camden","10":"tag-cooper-university-health-care","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa","20":"tag-victor-carstarphen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114849464026923286","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}