List of tallest buildings in Camden

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The Benjamin Franklin Bridge eastern tower at 380 ft (120 m) is tallest structure in Camden Benjamin Franklin Bridge-3.jpg
The Benjamin Franklin Bridge eastern tower at 380 ft (120 m) is tallest structure in Camden
RCA Victor buildings and City Hall Camden, New Jersey skyline.jpg
RCA Victor buildings and City Hall
View to 330 Cooper, Mitchell Courthouse, Wilson Building, and City Hall CamdenStreetscapeEastwardView.tiff
View to 330 Cooper, Mitchell Courthouse, Wilson Building, and City Hall

Camden, New Jersey is located on the Delaware River in the Delaware Valley/Philadelphia metropolitan area in the US. At 380 ft (120 m), a tower of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge is the tallest structure in the city. Camden City Hall, at 370 ft (110 m), has been the tallest building in the city since 1931. Several buildings of the Victor Talking Machine Company (which became part of RCA Victor in 1929) dot the city's skyline, which also includes late 20th century residential high-rises.

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Tallest buildings

RankNameImageNeighborhoodHeight
ft / m 		FloorsYearNotes
1 Camden City Hall Camden City Hall NJ.JPG Downtown 113 m (371 ft)181931Tallest building in Camden since 1931. [1] [2] and tallest in the Delaware Valley outside of Philadelphia. [3]
2Northgate II Northgate2Camden.tiff North Camden 69 m (226 ft)231979Residential highrise [4] [5]
3Triad1828 Centre [6] Waterfront 67 m (220 ft)182018 (topped out) [7] [8]
4Northgate I NorthgateAptsCamden.tiff North Camden 60 m (200 ft)211962Residential highrise [9] [10]
5330 Cooper 330CooperStRutgersCamden.JPG Cooper-Grant 45 m (148 ft)122012 Rutgers-Camden student housing [11]
6 Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center OurLadyofLourdesHospitalCamden.tiff Parkside
Gateway 		43 m (141 ft)101950 [12] [13]
7 Nipper Building RCA Nipper Camden NJ A.JPG Waterfront
Cooper-Grant 		37 m (121 ft) plus tower101916Residences known as The Victor [14] [15] inspired by Nipper logo for the RCA Victor when it was known as Building 17.
8 One Port Center One Port Center (Camden) 01.jpg Central Waterfront 41 m (135 ft)111996 Delaware River Port Authority [16] [17] [18] [19]
9Riverview Towers RiverviewTowerCamden1.tiff Waterfront 40 m (130 ft)151977Residential high-rise [20]
10Keleman Pavilion Lanning Square 40 m (130 ft)101978 Cooper University Hospital [21]
11 Wilson Building WilsonBldgCamden1.jpg Downtown 38 m (125 ft)121926Commercial [22] [23]
12Victor Executive Building [24] CamdenBdofEdAdminBldg 01.JPG Cooper-Grant 38 m (125 ft)81916 [25] [26] RCA Building No. 2.
also once home to Camden City Public Schools [27] [28]
12RCA Factory Building No. 8 RadioLoftsCamden.jpg Cooper-Grant
Waterfront 		38 m (125 ft)101924Radio Lofts (proposed) [29] [30] [31]
13Patient Pavilion Cooper University Hospital.JPG Lanning Square 37 m (121 ft)102008 Cooper University Hospital [32]
14Camden Tower CamdenTowerRutgers.tiff Cooper-Grant 37 m (121 ft)111989 Rutgers-Camden housing [33]
15JFK Towers KennedyTowersCamden.tiff Marlton 37 m (121 ft)101964Residential highrise [34]
16 Mitchell H. Cohen US Courthouse MitchellHCohen FedBldgCourthouse2.JPG Cooper Grant 61994 United States District Court for the District of New Jersey [35] [36]

Proposed

Camden skyline from Philadelphia Camden waterfront skyline.jpg
Camden skyline from Philadelphia

In May 2013 the New Jersey Economic Development Authority announced that it would seek developers for the site of the demolished Riverfront State Prison just north of the Central Waterfront and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge in Cooper Point. [37] [38] In September 2013 Waterfront Renaissance Associates announced that it proposed to a develop a 2.3-million-square-foot commercial complex on 16 acres (6.5 ha) called the Riverfront World Trade Center. The project would be built in four phases, the first of which would be a promenade along the Delaware River.The plan calls for two 22-story and two 18-story buildings. [39] [40] [41]

In October 2013, Herschend Family Entertainment announced they would add an attraction adjacent to the Adventure Aquarium, a 300 ft (91 m), 25-story observation tower ride with a moored balloon and gondola that would carry passengers above the site offering views of city, the Delaware River and the Philadelphia skyline [42] [43] to be built by Skyview Tower Systems. The 300 ft (91 m) Skyview Tower, a combination gyro tower and moored balloon, in the city's entertainment district on the Camden Waterfront was expected to open in 2015. [42] The structure is three rod towers joined at intervals by circular hoops Propelled by a winch, lightweight carriage disguised within the balloon envelope ascends the tower. The gondola beneath the balloon acts as floating circular walkway for a maximum of 40 passengers. [44]

In September 2015, Liberty Property Trust unveiled a proposal to build two towers, one 590 ft (180 m) tall [45] and another 450 ft (140 m) [46] as part a master plan on the waterfront designed by Robert A. M. Stern. Called Camden Towers it all include an 18-story building the waterfront. [47] Construction began in 2017. [48] [49] [50] [51]

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