Voorhees Mayor Michael Mignogna's Message

Voorhees Mayor Michael McDonna welcomes you to our town. Voorhees is a wonderful community with something for everyone. Whether you've lived here for years, you're a new resident, or you're considering moving here with your family or your business. You'll be amazed at what we have to offer.

As you travel throughout our town, you can't help, but notice the strength of our community from our tremendous industry to our amazing schools. To family recreation to state-of-the-art medical facilities. While we'd love you to experience the wonders of where he's firsthand, these videos will give you a glimpse into each fantastic facet of art town.

Forge township has a diverse population of about 30,000 people with a stable housing market that is in the top sector in retail, hospitality, education, professional services, and healthcare with small to mid-size businesses comprising nearly 90% of our industry. The township is easily accessible to local highways, interstate 2 95.

The Philadelphia bridges, the New Jersey turnpike and route 42 connecting the Northern and Southern parts of the. VOR is 20 minutes from Philadelphia an hour from the Jersey shore and 90 minutes from New York city. Our township has top-rated schools with fantastic curricula. One of the great selling points of young families moving the Vorhees is our school system consisting of four elementary schools, a middle school and Eastern regional high school.

And Voorhees is growing. The landscape gets more diverse every day with the influx of small and mid-size businesses making Voorhees their home. We have several hotels and the upscale AMC 16 Cineplex to support visitors as well as local residents. Our town is also home, the great restaurants, including our restaurant row at the Voorhees town center, as well as convenient shopping that all support the local community and attract visitors from Voorshees and many surrounding.

The virtual hospital complex brand new wine nursing home and power back rehabilitation center are part of our medical mile along route 73, providing state-of-the-art medical care residents. And those in the surrounding towns can receive care from their family practitioner all the way up through specialists in a variety of fields, right in our backyard, local and university hospitals have satellite offices in vs to provide care with a hometown.

Voorhees is overflowing with great recreational activities for all age. Young and old alike, enjoy fun-filled days and nights relaxing or playing in many of our great parks, sports fields or using our bike trails. Each park has a personality of its own. With open fields, tracks, picnic areas, playgrounds, dog runs, tennis courts.

Basketball courts, bocce ball courts, a cricket pitch, and more at any time of day, the parks are brimming with picnics families, walking, their dogs and kids riding their bikes. The town's also home to a wide range of sports complexes with soccer fields, lacrosse fields, football fields, baseball fields, and softball fields that are busy from morning to night with energetic athletes and cheering.

Many community events, such as parades, outdoor concerts, movies, and district-wide school activities are enjoyed across the landscape of Voorhees throughout the year. Voorhees was recently ranked as the second safest city in south Jersey. And in 2017, South Jersey magazine named Voorhees as one of the best towns to live in in south Jersey.

I'm so proud to share all that where he has to. As the mayor of this wonderful community, I encourage you to explore every fantastic facet of our town. There's something for everyone.