Riverfront State Prison (RSP) is a former prison in Camden,

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that was operated by the

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from August 12, 1985, to 2009. It was located in the neighborhood of Cooper Point at the intersection of Delaware Avenue and Elm Street. The prison first opened after the state paid Camden money in exchange for receiving a plot of land that was used to establish the prison. In 2007, while the state was preparing to close Riverfront, it considered establishing a replacement state prison in

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, which already had three other state prisons. When officials from the city of Bridgeton, New Jersey heard of a state report proposing to move Riverfront's prisoners to

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in Bridgeton, Bridgeton officials opposed the plans.Martins, John.
Bridgeton doesn't want Camden's state inmates
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''. May 23, 2007. Retrieved on September 27, 2011. "City officials on Tuesday night condemned what they say is a state plan to relocate more than 1,000 inmates from Camden's Riverfront State Prison to one of the county's three state prisons." Riverfront closed in 2009. The state had a savings of $43 million per year. The 16-acre site is considered surplus property by the state the buildings were demolished in 2009. In May 2013 the

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announced that it would seek developers for the site. In September 2013 Waterfront Renaissance Associates announced that it proposed to build the Riverfront World Trade Center, a development of 2.3-million-square-foot campus on on the site. The project would be built in four phases, the first of which would be a promenade along the Delaware River.

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Riverfront State Prison
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