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Dranoff to build apartments on Camden's waterfront

Carl Dranoff, the Philadelphia-based developer who transformed Camden's former RCA Victor factory into the city's first luxury apartment building, has plans to build an apartment complex on the waterfront.

The 156-unit building, which would sit next to the Campbell's Field baseball stadium, would be part of the massive mixed-use Liberty Property development that has been proposed for the area.

Dranoff declined to comment earlier this week on the proposal, saying he preferred to wait until after his presentation to the city's Planning Board Thursday night.

The board's agenda lists the project as having about 148,000 square feet of rental space, with about 5,000 square feet for ground floor retail, at the end of Cooper Street at Delaware Avenue. The plans include 192 parking spaces and about 30 units that would be set aside for affordable housing.

In a preview of the project Tuesday that Dranoff gave to members of the city's Cooper Grant Neighborhood Association, he said the project would begin in January if granted approval. He gave summer 2018 as a target move-in date. Architectural plans have not yet been finalized, he said.

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