In 2015 and 2016, Maley Givens served as Redevelopment Counsel for the City. Among many projects that began during that period, the firm represented the city’s interests in negotiating and helping marshal the AC Gateway project to fruition and bringing Stockton University’s Island Campus and the headquarters of SJ Gas to Atlantic City.

As with all redevelopment projects, the firm continues to utilize the full breadth of all municipal laws, not just redevelopment law, to create solutions that work for towns and private developers.

Serving as Redevelopment Counsel since 1999, Maley Givens has been involved in every aspect of the $350 million redevelopment of Glassboro’s downtown. Beginning with the initial planning, acquisition of properties, environmental remediation, search for and selection of redevelopers, agreements, land use approvals, financing and operation regulation, the firm has been an integral member of the borough redevelopment team.

Acquisition of more than 100 properties was accomplished without the use of eminent domain. Development relationships were created and cultivated with Rowan University for a diverse mixed-use development, built during an economic recession.

The development has strong ties to Rowan University and all of the development transactions have been structured to maintain borough control over municipal land use and other regulation and the provision of steady revenue streams to the Borough for the benefit of all residents.

Since 2000, Maley Givens has acted as redevelopment counsel to the Borough of Paulsboro. Most notable of the borough’s redevelopment activities have been the negotiation and consummation of a transfer of the former BP Oil Refinery to the borough – at no cost to the borough, while retaining BP’s responsibility for ongoing environmental remediation.

The BP transfer enabled the borough to enter into a transaction with The South Jersey Port Corporation for the construction and operation of the Paulsboro Port. The transaction’s structure maintains the borough’s proper control of land use over state agency and operational issues, so as to ensure a minimal intrusion on adjoining residential neighborhoods. A long-term PILOT and other financial arrangements resulted in a continual revenue source to the borough for decades to come.