Lanning Square is a

neighborhood A neighbourhood (Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (American English) is a geographically localized community within a larger town, city, suburb or rural area, sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neigh ...

in Camden,

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. It is named for Samuel Laning (1828–1830), the first mayor of Camden. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, Lanning Square has a population of 3,989. The neighborhood, sometimes known as Cooper-Lanning, or Cooper Plaza-Lanning Square, is home to

Cooper University Hospital Cooper University Hospital is a teaching hospital and biomedical research facility located in Camden, New Jersey. The hospital formerly served as a clinical campus of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and the University of Medicine and Dentist ...

and the

Coriell Institute for Medical Research The Coriell Institute for Medical Research is an independent, non-profit biomedical research institution, was founded by famed virologist Dr. Lewis L. Coriell in 1953. For the past 72 years, in pursuit of preventing and curing diseases, scient ...

. A planned station called Cooper-Campbell for the proposed Glassboro–Camden Line light rail system would stop in the neighbourhood at Haddon Avenue and South 9th Street west of the North-South Freeway.

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"Delivering Camden from the Brink"
Neighborhoods in Camden, New Jersey {{CamdenCountyNJ-geo-stub