UPDATE: The fire was placed under control, authorities said, adding that all occupants of the buildings were accounted for, including dogs.
Firefighters earlier today battled a raging fire ripping through multiple stores in a Cherry Hill strip mall.
The stores in the Towne Center strip mall include a Classic Cake bakery, Camp Bow Wow dog day care, The Make-UP Bar cosmetics shop, Pho Huong Viet Vietnamese Restaurant and a Starbucks.
The blaze burned through the roof of the buildings as firefighters poured water from ladder trucks, according to video from the scene. The Cherry Hill Fire Department said …
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From May-November 2019, he produced and reported a weekly podcast, The CRE News Hour, a news and features program focusing on the commercial real estate industry.
From 2014 to 2019 he was New Jersey and Philadelphia editor for GlobeSt.com and filled in covering Chicago/Midwest and Atlanta.
He has won numerous awards for his audio and video news reporting from the Garden State Journalists Association, and he has also been recognized for video by the New Jersey Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. He has produced audio podcasts on CRE topics for the NAR Commercial Division and the CCIM Institute.
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In March 2021, he was elected to the board of directors of the New Jersey Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, and in July 2021 he was named secretary of the chapter. In August 2021, he was honored by SPJ with one of the organization’s 2021 Howard S. Dubin Outstanding Pro Member Awards, given to regular members of an SPJ chapter who go above and beyond in serving their chapter.
Steve has been the computer columnist for the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey, since 1996.
Steve is co-author, with Toronto-based podcasting pioneer Donna Papacosta, of the book, The Business of Podcasting: How to Take Your Podcasting Passion from the Personal to the Professional.
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