By Phaedra-Trethan/Courier-Post/December-12-2017
CAMDEN - Jeff Nash, a Camden County freeholder since 1991, has seen his share of ribbon-cuttings along the Camden Waterfront.
He ticked off some of them Tuesday in South Camden: A trash-to-steam plant. A wastewater treatment facility. A prison. All of which faced fierce opposition from Camden residents. All of which were controversial and unwelcome additions to the city.
"Those were the ribbon-cuttings we were used to," Nash said.
Instead, on a gray afternoon bookended by the gray-brown towers of the county Municipal Utilities Authority plant and the brown-gray buildings of the South Jersey Port Corporation, Nash was touting a bit of green: The final piece of Phoenix Park was officially opened Tuesday, offering public access to the water for the first time in decades.
