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Echelon Airfield

Imported, unreviewedRedevelopedDemolishedVoorhees Township, NJ

Airport redeveloped 1969 into 200-acre mixed-use site with housing, retail, office; housing market growing in county. · summary, model-written

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Place

County typical rent $2,000+

This site: $2,013/mo zillow · all sites with this

Scale

60+ acre site

This site: 200 acres newtypes-extraction · all sites with this

Strategy

Redeveloped

This site: Echelon Mall / Voorhees Town Center, apartments, condominiums, single-family homes, office space, YMCA, Camden County Library record · all sites with this

New use

Civic and government

This site: …ums, single-family homes, office space, YMCA, Camden County Library newtypes-extraction · all sites with this

Housing

This site: Echelon Mall / Voorhees Town Center, apartments, condominiums, single-family homes, office space, YMCA, Cam newtypes-extraction · all sites with this

Mixed use

This site: Echelon Mall / Voorhees Town Center, apartments, condominiums, single-family homes, office spac newtypes-extraction · all sites with this

Office

This site: Town Center, apartments, condominiums, single-family homes, office space, YMCA, Camden County Library newtypes-extraction · all sites with this

Retail (continued)

This site: …new_use field newtypes-extraction · all sites with this

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Now

Status	Demolishednewtypes-extraction reported
Strategy	RedevelopedWikipedia no source
New uses	civic, housing, office, retailWikipedia no source
What is there now	Echelon Mall / Voorhees Town Center, apartments, condominiums, single-family homes, office space, YMCA, Camden County Librarynewtypes-extraction reported
Retrofit year	1969newtypes-extraction reported
Redeveloper	Echelon Mall, Inc., a subsidiary of The Rouse Companynewtypes-extraction reported

Site context

Housing permits, Camden County (NJ), 2024	509 units in 5+ unit buildings, 27 in 2–4, 434 single-family; 2023: 621 in 5+Census BPS
Other atlas sites nearby	1 within 10 km, 16 within 25 km: Echelon Mall (3.5 km)computed
Retail trade in the county, 2025 (BLS QCEW)	23,917 jobs in 1,480 establishments; average annual pay $41,986; employment location quotient 1.17; employment +0.5% on the yearBLS QCEW 2025, NAICS 44-45, private
Jobs located in the tract, 2022	8,646 jobs; 438 in retail trade, 688 in accommodation and food (workplace blocks summed to tract 34007607502)Census LEHD LODES8 WAC 2022
Upward mobility (Opportunity Atlas, 2010 tract)	children of low-income (25th percentile) families reached the 53th income percentile as adults; 0.2% incarcerated at the 2010 count (256 children in the sample); born 1978–83, measured 2014–15Opportunity Insights
Food access (USDA FARA 2019, 2010 tract)	low-access at 1 mile, not low-income; 10% of residents more than 1 mile from a supermarket; poverty rate 5.3%; median family income $125,619; 0 SNAP householdsUSDA ERS
Schools	Eastern Camden County Regional School District (09-12); 2 public schools within 1 mile: Eastern Regional High School; Voorhees Middle SchoolNCES EDGE
Elevation	115 ft above sea level at the site pointUSGS 3DEP
Storm events in the county, 2016-2025	298 county-logged events: 208 thunderstorm wind, 41 flash flood, 30 hail, 9 flood; $341,500 property damage reported; forecast-zone events (most flood, winter and heat) not countedNOAA Storm Events
Homes for sale in ZIP 08043, 2026-09	median list price $490,750 (-7.8% on the year); 59 active listings; median 45 days on market; 18% with a price cutRealtor.com Research
Retail trade in the county, 2012 to 2023	1,600 establishments (-8%); 24,358 jobs (+3%)Census CBP
Housing market in the county	typical home value $353,585 (+4% 1 yr, +42% 5 yr); typical rent $2,013/mo (+4% 1 yr), 2026-09Zillow Research
Traffic on the busiest road within 600 m (2024)	10,807 vehicles a day on CENTENNIAL BLVD (minor arterial, 2 lanes); 1 counted segmentsFHWA HPMS

Summary, model-written

Airport (1944–1965) redeveloped into mixed-use site (Echelon Mall/Voorhees Town Center) starting 1969. Airport demolished, replaced by housing, retail, office, civic uses. Current uses include apartments, condos, single-family homes, YMCA, library.

Why. 200-acre site, housing market growing (ZHVI +4.2% YoY), peer comparisons show successful NJ redevelopments (e.g., Echelon Mall peer score 8.5).

Where it stands. Retrofit completed 1969; current status is mixed-use development. No recent demolition noted beyond original airport closure.

For a planner

200-acre parcel
housing demand supported by ZHVI growth
traffic: 10,807 ADT on minor arterial

For a developer

Proven mixed-use model
county housing market growth (2018–2023: +3.3%)
peer benchmark in NJ

What we do not know yet

No current retail/tenant data
No recent permit activity beyond 2023
Peer list includes non-mall sites (e.g., Hudson Generating Station)

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retrofit already built
closed or demolished per category only, +0 until sourced
200 acres
county grew 3.3% 2018–23
housing in the record

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History and original facts

Opened	1944newtypes-extraction
Closed	1965newtypes-extraction reported
Acres	200newtypes-extraction reported
Original developer	Rogers and Jeannette Smithnewtypes-extraction reported
County	Camden County
Census division	2 · Mid-Atlantic
Notes	Draft from Wikipedia, model-extracted, unreviewed: Echelon Airfield was redeveloped into the Echelon Mall and a planned community in 1969-1970.

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Timeline

1939 Farmland bought for airfield
1944 Airfield incorporated
1944 Opened
1965 Airfield closed
1965 Closed
1969 Groundbreaking for Echelon Mall
1969 Retrofit: redevelop
1970 Echelon Mall opened

Sources

Voorhees Town Center · CC BY-SA 4.0
6 quoted sentences
Echelon Airfield
nearly 200 acres (0.81 km2) of farmland bought by flying enthusiasts Rogers and Jeannette Smith in 1939.
The Echelon Airfield was incorporated in 1944
until it closed in 1965.

Cite

Retrofit Atlas (2026). "Echelon Airfield, Voorhees Township, NJ." Record n-a6cdb9d372, imported, unreviewed. Built on the public Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed. https://retrofitatlas.org/other/nj/voorhees-township-echelon-airfield/ (accessed 2026-10-21).

BibTeX

@misc{retrofitatlas_voorheestownshipechelonairfield,
  title = {Echelon Airfield, Voorhees Township, NJ},
  author = {{Retrofit Atlas}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://retrofitatlas.org/other/nj/voorhees-township-echelon-airfield/}},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Record n-a6cdb9d372, release 2026-10-21, tier: draft. Built on the Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed on the record. Accessed 2026-10-21}
}

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What we do not know yet

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