page_title: Camden Waterfront
section_title: Attractions
hierarchical_section_title: Camden Waterfront / Attractions
caption_attribution_description: English: Wiggins Park Marina with One Port Center on the Camden Waterfront in Camden NJ by Michael Graves (1996) headquarters Delaware River Port Authority
context_page_description: The Camden Waterfront, also known as the Central Waterfront, is a tourist and entertainment district in Camden, New Jersey, on the Delaware River south of the Ben Franklin Bridge and north of Port of Camden.
  The district is characterized by its visitor attractions and its location offering views of the river and the Philadelphia skyline. It is served by RiverLink Ferry which crosses the river to Philadelphia and the Cooper St-Rutgers, Aquarium and Entertainment Center stations of the RiverLINE light rail system. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, the neighborhood has a population of 962.
context_section_description: The Adventure Aquarium originally opened in 1992 as the New Jersey State Aquarium at Camden. In 2005, after extensive renovation, the aquarium was reopened under the name Adventure Aquarium. The aquarium was one of the original centerpieces in Camden's plans for revitalizing their city.
  The BB&T Pavilion (formerly known as Susquehanna Bank Center and the Tweeter Center) is a 25,000-seat open-air concert amphitheater that was opened in 1995 and renamed after a 2008 deal in which the bank would pay $10 million over 15 years for naming rights.
  The USS New Jersey (BB-62) was a U.S. Navy battleship that was intermittently active between the years 1943 and 1991. After its retirement, the ship was turned into the Battleship New Jersey Museum and Memorial, that opened in 2001 along the waterfront. The New Jersey saw action during World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and provided support off Lebanon in early 1983.
  Other attractions at the Waterfront are the Ulysses Wiggins Park Riverstage and Marina, One Port Center, Nipper Building (aka Victor Lofts), the Walt Whitman House, the Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center, the Rutgers–Camden Center For The Arts and the Camden Children's Garden.
  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 Ben Franklin Bridge in Cooper Point. 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. However, this proposal never came to pass. 
  In September 2016 the Philadelphia 76ers opened their practice facility and home offices on the Waterfront. The new headquarters and the state-of-the-art, 120,000-square-foot practice center was made possible in part by  $82 million in tax credits approved by the New Jersey Economic Development Authority.
caption: Wiggins Park Marina and One Port Center
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