Business View City & Municipal | August 2022

78 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 7 thought the mall would be closed for a couple of days. Maybe a week. We were all holding our breath, saying, ‘What are we going to do?’ It turns out the mall closed for a couple of months.” Fortunately for Deptford, the mall weathered the storm and is almost at full occupancy. Being a retail center was a great boom for Deptford Township. The shopping attracted restaurants… Deptford had made a name for itself, so to speak. Medany acknowledges, “We knew all along that all our eggs were in the retail basket years ago. So we decided to branch out. We decided there was a need for medical services in Deptford.” So, they actively reached out to the healthcare sector and landed The Nemours Children’s Hospital about 10 years ago. “It’s a world- renowned hospital,” Medany shares. “We attracted a world-class medical facility and that was the start of our vision of medical uses. Now we have Inspira Medical Center which is one of the biggest medical service providers in the state. It brings much needed medical services into the town and the area.” The medical sector continues to expand in Deptford Township. In fact, an Urgent Care just opened up this summer, which Medany says complements the town’s retail base.