Freedom Village at Historic Roebling (Florence Twp.)
This seventy-two-unit apartment community is currently under construction. It will feature one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments surrounding a large Community Center. The buildings will be three stories with private entrances in front and will be barrier-free and accessible for people using wheelchairs. The buildings will have elevators, and central heat/air conditioning that incorporate Energy Star design features as well as being LEEDs compliant. Ample off-street parking adjacent to each building will provide easy access to each unit.
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Pre-Applications Available to Download Here!
We are thrilled to announce that applicant interviews will begin the second week of December and continue thereafter. We look forward to meeting our prospective tenants!
Thank you for your interest in Freedom Village at Historic Roebling. Please complete the pre-application (here) ensuring that all questions are answered fully for each person who will live in the household.
Please do not submit any supporting income documentation at this time. Pre-applications will be dated and time-stamped when received.
The qualifications for the site are printed on the application. Per unit size, the household’s combined income must meet the minimum income requirements and not exceed the maximum allowed in Burlington County. The income requirements may be adjusted if you have an ongoing rental assistance voucher.
PO box addresses are not acceptable. Pre-applications must include a physical street address. Credit, Criminal, and Background checks will be done for all adult applicants. A social security number must be provided for each family member.
For this site, there are a series of priorities and preferences that will govern who is next on the Wait List. There are fifty-four 1-, 2-, and 3-bedroom units to be leased.
The following priorities apply:
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- Mobility accessible need – supporting documentation required
- Veteran – DD214 or Veteran ID required with pre-application
- Regional Priority – live and/or work within Burlington, Camden, or Gloucester Counties
- Lottery Number – priority set by the results of the lottery on 8/21/2024
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Our random selection waitlist lottery drawing was held on Wednesday, August 21, 2024. The waitlist drawing outcome does not guarantee a unit. All applicants must be income-qualified, pass background/credit checks, and be interviewed for a unit.
Our staff will contact only those applicants under consideration. Applicants should contact us regarding any changes in their home address, work location or phone/email contact information.
Roebling: A little hamlet with a whole lot of history and a growing attraction for tourists
FLORENCE — Driving through the village of Roebling, you might think it’s just an ordinary town.
But the 1.2-square-mile village in the heart of Florence Township is actually full of history, according to the Roebling Museum’s Erica Harvey.
“There’s so much more here than just a little town,” said Harvey, a volunteer and program coordinator for the museum.
The little hamlet of tidy streets filled with row homes has been standing relatively unchanged for more than 100 years. Originally built as a planned community for hundreds of workers at the John A. Roebling’s Sons Co. steel plant, the village survived the plant shutdown in 1974 and a subsequent Superfund toxic waste cleanup that cost tens of millions of dollars.
A museum that opened on the grounds of the former steel plant in 2009 has played a lead role in putting a new face on the community, even as bulldozers and dump trucks have leveled and carted away the pieces of numerous old factory buildings nearby that — although elegant, old industrial structures — represented a toxic threat to the landscape.
“Originally, the Roebling Historical Society saw that the mill site was dilapidated and they negotiated with the Environmental Protection Agency and Florence to have a museum,” Roebling Museum Executive Director Patricia Millen said.
“It was too big for the historical society so a board was formed. They worked for years to turn this place into what it is today.”