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Isaac Kremer/ September 9, 2018/ / 0 comments

The advent of clocks in public spaces came largely thanks to the railroad, so that people could time the arrival and departure of trains. Timepieces have been freestanding on the sidewalk in commercial districts, on towers, attached to municipal buildings, or related to buildings of community significance. (Kremer, 2025) Photo from Newark, Delaware, 2018.

Photo from Haddon Heights, New Jersey, 2025.

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Isaac is a nationally acclaimed downtown revitalization leader, speaker, and author. Districts Isaac managed have achieved over $1 billion of investment, more than 1,645 jobs created, and were 2X Great American Main Street Award Semifinalists and a 1X GAMSA winner in 2023. His work has been featured in Newsday, NJBIZ, ROI-NJ, Patch, TapInto, and USA Today. Isaac is a Main Street America Revitalization Professional (MSARP), with additional certifications from the International Economic Development Council, National Park Service, Project for Public Spaces, Grow America (formerly the National Development Council), and the Strategic Doing Institute. He currently serves as Executive Director for Experience Princeton in Princeton, New Jersey.

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