By Matt-Skoufalos/NJ-Pen/October-19-2017

With elected officials calling it a catalyst for economic and educational development, shovels hit the ground Thursday in Camden City, as the Rowan University Rutgers-Camden Board of Governors (RURCBOG) broke ground on its $72-million Joint Health Sciences Center.

The two-phase project at the corner of Martin Luther King Boulevard and Broadway will include facilities for Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Rutgers University, and Camden County College, as well as for RURCBOG, which described it as the first center of its kind in New Jersey.

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