Thomas/Boyd Communications serves as communications consultants to developers/redevelopers involved with mixed-use, residential and commercial projects. A critical part of the overall professional development team, Thomas/Boyd creates strategic communications programs for various phases of the project, including the initial public announcement. The media relations component includes message development, maintaining contact with the news media, and writing and distributing news releases, op-eds and other materials. A proactive community relations component, which may include “town hall” style meetings, helps ensure that community members are well informed about the project. Select outreach to community stakeholders, including chambers of commerce, public officials and other key influencers, are typically part of the program as well. Recent projects include Medford Crossings, the largest mixed-use community in the history of Medford, NJ, Bordentown Waterfront Development, a proposed mixed-use redevelopment community, and a proposed active adult community by a residential builder.

Tri-county Railroad Projects in the Works
By CAROL COMEGNO and JIM WALSH
Courier-Post Staff • April 20, 2010

A planned light-rail line from Camden to Glassboro has entered a new phase of development, one that will include public-comment hearings next month.

The sessions -- to be held at each end of the planned 18-mile line -- will be part of an environmental review process, the Delaware River Port Authority said Monday.

The line, which would run along an existing Conrail right of way, "is the largest transit project ever planned to serve Camden and Gloucester counties," Jeff Nash, the DRPA's vice chair and a Camden County freeholder, said in a statement that announced the hearings.>>more

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Bordentown Twp. transit project gets federal grant
By Edward Colimore
Inquirer Staff Writer

A developer was given approval earlier this year to begin work on a $175 million project that calls for a new station on the RiverLine in Bordentown Township and a surrounding "transit village."

And Friday brought more progress: the announcement of a $250,000 federal grant approved for the design and construction of the stop, the first new one on the NJ Transit rail line since its start in 2004.>>more